25 Beautiful Years

January, 1979

25 Beautiful YearsWe're Not Sure that such a poll has ever been taken, but we'd bet that if readers were asked to give the first phrase they thought of in association with Playboy, that phrase most often would be: "Women. Beautiful women." After all, way back in 1960, an editorial in that distinctly nonerotic London publication The Architects' Journal called our Playmates "one of America's greatest gifts to Western culture." We'll buy that, but we'd also like to point out--as...