We do our best to answer any and all questions about Playboy, but sometimes we’re stumped, usually because we can’t find any information in our indices and don’t have the time to flip through issues. Actually, to be frank, the warmer it gets outside, the lazier we get inside. At any rate, since readers continually astound us with their knowledge of all things Playboy, we thought we’d share a few of the more challenging questions of late to see if they spark any memories:
“I wish to know the names of the Playmates that appeared in the 1999 release of the Kid Rock video 'Cowboy.' More specifically, the beautiful blonde in the car, wearing chaps and smiling those beautiful eyes near the end.”
“Back in the late 60s or early 70s, Playboy had an article about The
Spalding rubber ball and what games were played using it. Can you tell me when that was?”
“I saw something in Playboy half a lifetime ago that I'd like to see
again but can't recall enough to search for. It was a futuristic short story about a gambler's last days in Berkeley panhandling for time, published sometime between 1970 and 1990. I've searched for it everywhere (sure hope I saw it in Playboy).”
“I believe it was in 1986 that you ran an article by a freelance
writer on either Abu Abbas or Abu Nidal, in which he made the statement: ‘One day we will have missiles that will reach New York City.’ I am in conversation with a Kansas minister who is rather unfamiliar with the editorial side of Playboy, and I am trying to make the point that radical Islamic arming is NOT a recent phenomenon.”
After consulting with our photo stylists in L.A., we can answer one question that has been asked a number of times by readers this month: The bathing suit that Jayde Nicole is wearing on the June cover is by Guess.
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The story might be Time is Money by Lee Felk published December 1975
The article about the Spalding rubber ball (specifically, the Spalding "hi-Bouncer") is "Street Games". a memoir by Gerald Greene that appears in the January 1971 issue.
“I believe it was in 1986 that you ran an article by a freelance writer on either Abu Abbas or Abu Nidal, in which he made the statement: ‘One day we will have missiles that will reach New York City.’"
Fatah's Abu Abbas did indeed make that statement (probably repeatedly throughout his lifetime), but I didn't recall seeing it in Playboy. (It would have been an appropriate place for him to make that statement, though, since Abbas did in fact have a reputation of being a "playboy" on account of his fondness for fancy suits and fine hotels.) Could it have been a quote in the article "Terrorism" by then-Senator Alan Dixon (Dem - IL) in the October 1986 issue? Unfortunately, that issue is in a box downstairs, and just as you also admitted to being too lazy to dig through your archives, I must plead that same excuse. Maybe you have the October 1986 issue on your shelves where it is more easily available, and you can check Senator Dixon's article for yourselves. Ironically, it is in the issue with the "burkha covergirl".
http://www.playboy.com/magazine/cover-gallery/1986/10/