Playbill
March, 1957
"Spoof Collins blew his brains out, all right – right on out through the top of his head. But I don't mean with a gun. I mean with a horn." Early in Playboy's first year, these opening words of a manuscript by an unknown writer riveted our attention. We dropped what we were doing, picked up the story, read the first page, read the second page... then we loosened our necktie, put our feet up on the desk, and read the 10,000-word yarn all the way through to the end. We loved it – and our...
