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December 1953 Issue #1 Original |
Centerfold: Marilyn Monroe |
Cover: Marilyn Monroe |
"An Open Letter From California"Strip Quiz"Sweetheart of the Month,Marilyn Monroe" | ||||||
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December 1953 Issue #1 Reprint | Centerfold: Marilyn Monroe | Cover: Marilyn Monroe | These reprinted issues present all of the original articles, advertisements and photographs precisely as they appeared back in 1953. | OUT OF STOCK | |||||
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January 1954 |
Centerfold: Margie Harrison |
Cover: NA | |||||||
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Febuary 1954 |
Centerfold: Margie Scott |
Cover: Yvonne Menard |
"New Cabin"The Adventure of the Cooper Beeches"The Gun is the Jury"Boxing 1954"VIP on Likker"Playboy Tours the Hottest Spots in Paris" | ||||||
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March 1954 |
Centerfold: Dolores Del Monte |
Cover: Joanne Arnold |
"Fahrenheit 451"The Medicine Man"Trouble in Tobaccoland"Your Mind and How it Works"The Magic Box"Johns-The Outhouse Beautiful"Sex Sells a Shirt" | ||||||
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April 1954 |
Centerfold: Marilyn Waltz |
Cover: Leigh Lewin | "The Metronome All Stars"Sin In Paradise"The Body Beautiful"Advise on the Choice of a Mistress"Fahrenheit 451"Cobean" | ||||||
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May 1954 |
Centerfold: Joanne Arnold |
Cover: NA | "Three Days Pass"How to Apply for a Job"Fahrenheit 451"Kill the Empire"Nudes By Weegee"Surgery" | ||||||
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June 1954 |
Centerfold: Margie Harrison |
Cover: Bunny Cartoon with M.M. |
"A Women of Fifty"One Man's Meat"The Top of the Heap"The Art of Heinrich Kley"VIP on Women"Little Boy's Blues"Open Season for Bachelors"Testing Your Personality"Outside with De Deiens"George Orson Wells" | ||||||
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July 1954 |
Centerfold: Neva Gilbert |
Cover: NA | The Boss's Breeches"What's Happening with Baseball"A Voice in the Night "Junior Executive"Our Feathered Friends"Simone Silva"Evolution of the Bathing Suit" | ||||||
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August 1954 |
Centerfold: Arline Hunter |
Cover: NA | "The Builder Frank Lloyd Wright"The Star Maker"Red Lights and Hot Music"Summer Time Sports"The Flying Machine"Planning and Delegating"Street Scenes"A Bump, a Grind and a Gimmick" | ||||||
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September 1954 |
Centerfold: Jackie Rainbow |
Cover: NA | "Black Country"Virginity"Satchmo Bops the Boppers"Business Meetings"Hope on Golf"Inspecting a Navel"Roll Out the Rolvo'Steig's Embrarrassed People"Jane"Punch's New Yorker" | ||||||
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October 1954 |
Centerfold: Madeline Castle |
Cover: Madeline Castle | |||||||
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November 1954 |
Centerfold: Diane Hunter |
Cover: NA | "Old Tiger"The Persistent Nude"Boxing on the Ropes"Was My Face Red"Be An Idea Man"August Afternoon"The Treating of Mental Illness"Brothers Boozers"Around the World" | ||||||
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December 1954 |
Centerfold: Terry Ryan |
Cover: Terry Ryan | I'm Yours"The Passionate Poetess"Sports'Craziest Year"Make Research Work for Your"Aviodism"Las Vegas skin Game" | ||||||
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January 1955 |
Centerfold: Bettie Page (Bunny Yeager) |
Cover: NA | "The Concrete Mixer"West Coast Jazz is Nowhere"Carnival"The Ears of Johnny Bear"The Stag at Eve" | ||||||
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Febuary 1955 |
Jayne Mansfield |
Cover: Leigh Lewin & Arlene Kieta | "The Most Horrible Story"Boxing 1955"Ribald Classics"Broadway's Turkish Delight "Kley's Winter"Voluptua"Red Beans & Ricely Yours" | ||||||
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April 1955 |
Centerfold: Marilyn Waltz |
Cover: Leigh Lewin | "The Hunger"The Faithful Servants"How to Play Company Politics"ATithe for Charity"Modern Art as a Hobby"Executive Flight"Naked Advertising" | ||||||
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May 1955 |
Centerfold: Marguerite Empey |
Cover: Leigh Lewin | "The Eighty Year Run"TV's Ad Glibber"The Murder of Conan Doyle"How to be a Fair-Haired Boy"Naked Lady"Double Exposure" | ||||||
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June 1955 |
Centerfold: Eve Meyer |
Cover: Donna Kime | "All-Time All-Star Jazz Band"Successful Love"From searle's Sketchbook" | ||||||
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July 1955 |
Centerfold: Janet Pilgrim |
Cover: Janet Pilgrim | |||||||
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August 1955 |
Centerfold: Pat Lawer |
Cover: Joanne Arnold | "Spy Story"The Big Busom Battle"Mating Season"The Sammy Davis Jr Story"Pink Elephants and Purple Hair" | ||||||
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September 1955 |
Centerfold: Anne Fleming |
Cover: Marilyn Monroe |
OUT OF STOCK |
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October 1955 College Issue |
Centerfold: Jean Moorehead |
Cover: Marilyn McClintock | "Stags for Fun and Profit"The King"The Taming of the Rake"2 Playmates for the Price of One"Anita Ekberg" | ||||||
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November 1955 |
Centerfold: Barbara Cameron |
Cover: Barbara Cameron |
"An Interview with the All-Stars of Jazz"All Married Women are bad,Yes"Zip Gun Boys on a Caper"Gina Lollobrigida Defends her honor"West Coast Strippers" | ||||||
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December 1955 |
Centerfold: Janet Pilgrim (Playboy Subscription Department employee) |
Cover: Janet Pilgram |
"Mebel Mercer'The Next Line"uncovering a Nudist Wedding"The First Sap of Manhood"A Lady's Honor"Burlesque in Tokyo" | ||||||
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January 1956 |
Centerfold: Lynn Turner |
Cover: Jean Moorehead | "Advise About Women"Will Sheor Won't She"Last Will and Testament"Death of a Salesman"A Moment of Genius"I like Blondes"Love ,The Healer"Cole's Forecast for 1956"The First Two Dozen Playmates" | ||||||
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Febuary 1956 |
Centerfold: Marguerite Empey |
Cover: Pat Lawler,Margaret Scott,Eve Meyer | "The Crack of Doom"Boxing 1956"Mary"The Long Blue Nose of the Law"Will Success Spoil Jayne Mansfield" | ||||||
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March 1956 |
Centerfold: Marian Stafford |
Cover: Marian Stafford |
"Couching at the Door"The First Night of Lent"The Great Guessing Game"The Psychodynamist"I'am Committing Suicide"An Evening with Eve" | ||||||
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April 1956 |
Centerfold: Rusty Fisher |
Cover: NA | "The Cruise of the Aphrodite"The Sport of Sports Car Racing"No More Gifts"Taste"Diana Dors (England's Marilyn Monroe) | ||||||
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May 1956 |
Centerfold: Marion Scott |
Cover: Dolores Taylor | "To Victor (Borge) Belongs the Spoils"The Splendid Source"How Now,Brown Cow"The Shooting of Judge Price"The Monster Show"The Lynx with the Lusty Larnyx"Marion Scott" | ||||||
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June 1956 |
Centerfold: Gloria Walker |
Cover: NA | "A Sound of Thunder"Chess" | ||||||
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July 1956 |
Centerfold: Alice Denham |
Cover: NA | "The Deal"The truckdriver"Some Guys get It"Nellthu"The Newport Jazz Festival"Marla English" | ||||||
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August 1956 |
Centerfold: Jonnie Nicely |
Cover: NA | "You Can't Have them All"The Death of Painting"Walk to the Station'Ad Lib Exit'The Ekberg Bronze"Piltdown Painting Party" | ||||||
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September 1956 |
Centerfold: Elsa Sorensen |
Cover: Diane Harmsen | "Love Incorporated'The doll"Boxing's Child of Destiny Floyd Paterson"Get Out of my Life"Filming the Folies-bergere"Ernest Hemingway" | ||||||
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October 1956 |
Centerfold: Janet Pilgrim |
Cover: Mary Ann& Shirley | "The Right Kind of Pride"Hospitality"Hemingway"A Pound of Flesh"For Export Only"Joan Bradshaw | ||||||
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November 1956 |
Centerfold: Betty Blue |
Cover; Anna Kirstein | "A Florish of Strumpets"The Abdicating Male"The Lock on the Barroom Door"The Lover of the Coral Glades"The Flip Side"Hemingway"Nat King Cole Cuts a Biscuit" | ||||||
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December 1956 Third Anniversary Issue |
Centerfold: Lisa Winters |
Cover: Lisa Winters |
"The Dark Music"Confessions of an American Button Man"Broadway"The Bitch in Heat"Hemingway"The Hundred Dollar Suicide" | ||||||
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January 1957 | Centerfold: June Blair | Cover: Marian Scott,Elsa Sorensen,Alice Denham,Rusty Fisher,Lisa Winters,Betty blue,Marguerite Empey,Marian Stafford,Jonnie Nicely,Gloria Walker,Janet Pilgrim and Lynn Turner | "The Hustler"Comes The Resolution"The Girls of Shepherd Market"In a Season of Calm Weather"The mask and the Maiden"Playboy Preview" | ||||||
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Febuary 1957 | Centerfold:Sally Todd | Cover: Jayne Masfield | "A Second Father"The Traveling Salesman"The 44 Year Old Boy Disc Jockey"Love in the Dark"Jayne Mansfield (5 Pages) | ||||||
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March 1957 | Centerfold: Sandra Edwards | Cover; Sandra Edwards | "Night Ride"Boxing 1957"The Descent Thing to Do"The Gray Flannel Beachcombers"Tripicate Twisteroo"Hemingway"Cocktail Capers"The Vargas Girl"Zsa Zsa in Vegas" | ||||||
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April 1957 | Centerfold: Gloria Windsor | Cover: Elaine Conte | "The Sergeant and the Slave Girl"Exurbanites at Play"The Complete Sports Car Stable"All through the Night "Come Rain,Come Shine"Victory Parade"The Power of Positive Thinking"Sex on Lex"Hemingway" | ||||||
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May 1957 | Centerfold: Dawn Richard | Cover: NA | "Master of the Reveals"It's Like This With TV"Little Land of the Big Wheel"The Not Nice Guy"Tiger Hunt in Cooch Behar"The Postal Peel of Peaches Page"return to Tokyo"Li'l Abner's Gals" | ||||||
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June 1957 | Centerfold: Carrie Radison | Cover: NA | "The Fly"Contour Contact"The Double Cross up"Lisa Winters & Vikki Dougan" | ||||||
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July 1957 | Centerfold: Jean Jani | Cover: Dawn Richards | "Mistress of Porcosito"A Very Human Story"The Champion of Outer Mongolia"Silverstein in Scandinavia"Playboy's Yacht Party" | ||||||
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August 1957 | Centerfold: Dolores Donlon | Cover: Dolores Donlon | "Incident off Land;s End"The Goofy Girls"Balance Sheet"Do Nice Artistic Girls"Five Card Poker and the Hell with It"Hemingway"Denison's Sports Cars"The Face is Fimiliar" | ||||||
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September 1957 | Centerfold: Jacquelyn Prescott | Cover; Jacquelyn Prescott | "The Prince and the gladiator"Open Season on Guest"Get it in Writing"A Matter of Life and Death"Playboy's Pigskin Preview"Hemingway"Western's are Better than Ever""Jana Davi" | ||||||
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October 1957 | Centerfold: Colleen Farrington | Cover: NA | "The Pious Pornographers"Party Girl"The Cure"Sport"The Secret Formula"The Cellophane Society"Silverstein in London"Latin Quarter Lovelies" | ||||||
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November 1957 | Centerfold: Marlene Callahan | Cover: NA | "The Deadly Will to Win"The Buttondown Boys in the Frozen North"City Fables"Corrida"Sophia Loren Pictorial" | ||||||
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December 1957 | Centerfold: Linda Vargas | Cover: Linda Vargas & Lisa Winters | "The Barracudas"The Manipulators"The Impolite Sex"Quotemamship"Something on his Mind"Lisa Winters" | ||||||
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January 1958 | Elizabeth Ann Roberts (The Youngest Playmate Ever Photographed at Age 17 with Mom's Permission) | Cover: Lisa Winters,Marian Stafford,June Blair,Gloria Walker,Gloria Windsor and Jean Jani | "The Room of Dark"Just Like the Girl"The best Job In Television"The false Confessors"The Rumbling,Rambling Blues"Silverstein in Paris" | ||||||
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Febuary 1958 | Centerfold: Cheryl Kubert | Cover:NA | "Examination Day"The Beat Mystique"Let There Be Light"Thank You,Anna"Jayne Mansfield" | ||||||
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March 1958 | Centerfold: Zahra Norbo | Cover: Brigitte Bardot | The Distributor"Boxing of 1958"Presenting Michiko"Silverstein in Moscow"The Best of Brigitte Bardot" | ||||||
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April 1958 | Centerfold: Felicia Atkins | Cover: Marilyn Dann | "Weird Shows"The little World of Orville K.Snav"The Short-Short Story of Mankind"A Stretch in Siberia"Painter of the Urban Scene"Minsky in Las Vegas" | ||||||
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May 1958 | Centerfold: Lari Laine | Cover: Lari Laine | "The Man in the Well"Wizards of a Small Planet"The Life & Death of a Spanish Grandee"This One is on the House"The Birth of a Broadway Show"Hard Bargain"Playboy's Little Arce"Adieu,tristesse"Elga Anderson" | ||||||
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June 1958 | Centerfold: Judy Lee Tomerlin | Cover: Judy Lee Tomerlin | "The Little World of Harry Kurnitz"Sex on Sawdust"The Siogn of Scorpio"Silverstein in Italy"A Toast to Legs" | ||||||
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July 1958 | Centerfold: Linne Nanette Ahlstrand | Cover: Joyce Nizzari | "The Sweet Sadness"The Devil to Pay"The Beavers of broadway"Off with their Beards"The Skindiver & the Lady"The not so Tender Trap"Music to make your Eyeballs Pop"Agnes Laurent" | ||||||
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August 1958 | Centerfold: Myrna Weber | Cover: NA | "Drop Dead"Eros and Unreason in Detroit"A Very Rare Disease"Word of Honor" | ||||||
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Sept 1958 | Centerfold: Teri Hope | Cover: Terri Hope | "The House of Hate"The Peeping tom Patrol"Howls of Ivy"The Womanization of America"Playboy's Pigskin Preview"Sleepers,Awake"18 Year Old Brunette June Wilkinson" | ||||||
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October 1958 | Centerfold: Mara Corday & Pat Sheehan (The First Two Playmates Ever To Occupy The Same Issue) | Cover; Babette,Mara Corday,Pat Sheehan | "The 51 Tones of Green"The Pros of Paris"Precahance to Dream"Montage"Excutive Chess"Les Girls" | ||||||
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November 1958 Fifth Anniversary Issue | Centerfold: Joan Staley | Cover: NA | "The Marvelous Lover"What's the Bad Word"The Jam"A Sock in the Jaw"Peekaboo Brigitte (Bardot)"Silverstein in Switzerland"The cards are Stacked"Frank Sinatra" | ||||||
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December 1958 | Centerfold: Joyce Nizzari | Cover: NA | A Knight Lay Dying"Everybody Hates David Starbuck"We're Running a Little Late"Playboy's Most Popular Playmates" | ||||||
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January 1959 Holiday Issue | Centerfold: Virginia Gordon | Cover: Elizabeth Ann Roberts,Teri Hope,Myrna Weber,Cheryl Kubert and Lari Laine | "The Music of The Yellow Brass"The Right Approach"A Dish of Desire"No Room for Vice"Playboy's Playmate Review" | ||||||
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Febuary 1959 | Centerfold: Eleanor Bradley | Cover; NA | "the Buttondown Boys at Creespville High"A Fist Full of Money"The Sensible Man"Girls in their Lairs" | ||||||
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March 1959 | Centerfold: Audrey Daston | Cover: NA | "The Noise"Names in Lights"I Love You,Miss Irvine"The Horror of it All"silverstein in Spain" | ||||||
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April 1959 | Centerfold: Nancy Crawford | Cover: NA | "What became of your Creature"Nasty"With All due Respect"On The Scene"Tina Louise of Gilligan's Island Fame | ||||||
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May 1959 | Centerfold: Cindy Fuller | Cover: Cindy Fuller,Fran Stacy,Maty Jane Ralston | "Dealers Wild"The girl Had been Around"Trilication" | ||||||
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June 1959 | Centerffold: Marilyn (Charlie) Hanold | Cover: NA | "The Voyage of the Peanut"The Origins of the beat Generation"The Wise Guy"The Mann Act"Oriental Sex" | ||||||
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July 1959 | Centerfold: Yvette Vicers | Cover: NA | "No Fire Burns"Sorcerer's Moon"The Coffe Houses of America"The Incredible Adventures of Dino"The Little World of Oscar Levant"Tania Velia (1954 Yugoslavia Olymoic Team Swimmer)" | ||||||
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August 1959 | Centerfold: Clayre Peters | Cover: Clayre Peters | "The Sender of Letters"The Rancher's Daughter"OK,so iam a Cookooboo"Cult of the Aged Leader"Incognito"Silverstein Among the Arabs"June Wilkinson Nudes" | ||||||
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September 1959 | Centerfold: Marianne Gaba | Cover: Marianne Gaba | "the Taste of Fear"Playboy's Pigskin Preview"The Miss America joke"The World of Heart's Desire"A Song in his Pocket"Cole Remembered"Bunny's Honey's" | ||||||
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October 1959 | Centerfold: Elaine Reynolds | Cover: Eleanor Bradley | Snakes in the Grass,Alas"svengali of the Silver Screen"The alky Era"No Such thing as a Vampire"A Very Good Sidewalk Story"Playboy Plays the Market"Loving Couple"Elaine Steward Nudes" | ||||||
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November 1959 | Centerfold: Donna Lynn | Cover: NA | "a Cry from the Penthouse"Holiday Office Parties"A Long Time to Swing Alone"When Prankhood was in Flower"The Joan Club"The Physiology of Sleep"O Debt,Where is the Sting"The Humanist"Hollywood Goes European"Beads from Other Times and Places" | ||||||
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December 1959 | Centerfoldf: Ellen Stratton | Cover: NA | "Before the road"The Legend of Don Juan"Crime at the Tennis Club"A Fine Son"A Fine Italian Hand"And Now,A Word from the Sponsor"December 28th"Building a Better Brigitte" |