The Illustrated History Of Playboy

January, 1979

The Illustrated History of PlayboyDavid StandishGood for us: We're 25 years old. We've never felt better and we couldn't be happier.Best is that more often than not, it's been fun--which has been the idea of it all since we began. But which in 1953 was a slightly dangerous notion for a new magazine to be celebrating. It's even difficult for people who lived through them to remember how grim the very early Fifties were--and how rigidly conformist. When Korea was just grinding down to an empty, me...