Of Human Brundage

February, 1991

Of Human Brundagea heartfelt valentine to illustrator margaret brundage, whose sumptuous writhing cover girl quickened many a young man's pulseToday, of course, and for a fistful of decades, there has been the Playboy Playmate. Before her, in my childhood and adolescence, there was Esquire's Varga Girl, preceded by the Petty Girl, from the suave airbrushes of Alberto Vargas and George Petty, respectively. The Petty Girl, who seemed enormously daring to me whenever I was able to sneak a barbersho...