07.14.08 6:00 AM CDT
• Letters
• Chip Rowe
Our last challenge to readers to find lost articles was such a success, we thought we’d toss out a few more. Any suggestions are appreciated:A reader from Sweden asks, “During the ‘80s and ‘90s, when I lived in Florida, I read an issue with an exquisite recipe for Scampi Indiana. It contained both red and green bell peppers, large shrimp, heavy cream and brandy. I've lost the recipe. Do you think there is any chance for me to retrieve it?”
“I started reading Playboy in my youth,” writes M.W. from Palo Alto. “Sometime during the period 1963-1968 I read an article titled ‘The National Girl Nut Contest.’ Would it be possible to obtain a copy?”
Our last challenge to readers to find lost articles was such a success, we thought we’d toss out a few more. Any suggestions are appreciated:
A reader from Sweden asks, “During the ‘80s and ‘90s, when I lived in Florida, I read an issue with an exquisite recipe for Scampi Indiana. It contained both red and green bell peppers, large shrimp, heavy cream and brandy. I've lost the recipe. Do you think there is any chance for me to retrieve it?”
“I started reading Playboy in my youth,” writes M.W. from Palo Alto. “Sometime during the period 1963-1968 I read an article titled ‘The National Girl Nut Contest.’ Would it be possible to obtain a copy?”
Nick from Chicago writes, “I'm trying to track down two pieces of fiction from long ago but don’t have titles or authors. The first is about heaven and hell changing the way they ruled on the fate of souls. Instead of a field of battle with swords, armor and puffs of white or black smoke, the angels and demons played basketball. Ultimately the decision was based on an angel or demon making a free throw for your soul. The second was about three amusement park robots (a mouse, a duck and a dog) who are activated by a passing storm in a decaying factory in a post-civilization world. The story follows them as they try to make their way south to their destination park with their childlike outlook in a land that isn't hospitable to them.”
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To partially answer Nick’s query, the second short story he refers to is “Heirs of the Perisphere,” which was written by Howard Waldrop, illustrated by Brad Holland and appeared in the August 1985 issue. It also was reprinted in “The Playboy Book of Science Fiction,” edited by Alice K. Turner. I vaguely remember the first piece he mentions, but unfortunately can’t specify its title, author or issue (though I think it ran sometime in ’82, ’83 or ’84). Questions such as these are just one reason why I hope that the work on digitalizing the remaining decades of Playboy is continuing as planned.
> “I started reading Playboy in my youth,” writes M.W. from Palo Alto. “Sometime during the period 1963-1968 I read an article titled ‘The National Girl Nut Contest.’ Would it be possible to obtain a copy?”
This was "The Great Girl Nut Contest" by Roger Price in the December 1968 issue (a collector's item, on account of the Cynthia Myers centerfold). You can buy a copy on E-bay right now for $5.50 + $4.00 shipping, I see.