Playboy Interview: Charles Percy
April, 1968
Playboy Interview: Charles PercyThe real-life incarnation of the legendary all-American hero--a poor but honest young man who earns fame and fortune through gumption and stick-to-itiveness--has seldom been more arche-typally embodied than in the blue-eyed, clean-jawed person of 48-year-old Charles Harting Percy, the junior Senator from Illinois. From an impoverished boyhood--at one point during the Depression, his family was on relief--he rose before turning 30 to head a major camera company and...