Playboy's Fifth Anniversary Scrapbook

Playboy's Fifth Anniversary ScrapbookSilverstein reports back to Playboy on the Geisha girl situation in Tokyo at beginning of his world travels in May of 1957.Back in the fall of 1953 Editor-Publisher Hugh M. Hefner beat out copy for the first issue of Playboy in his Chicago apartment, which served as the magazine's office for the first three issues. Hefner started Playboy with $600 of his own money and a few hundred more borrowed from friends.Figure studies of Anita Ekberg caused a sensation w...