Playbill
November, 1959
Isaac de benserade knew, and put in four short lines, the ubiquity and importance of the bed in human life: "In bed we laugh, in bed we cry;/And, born in bed, in bed we die./ The near approach a bed may show/ Of human bliss to human woe." True in De Benserade's 17th Century, it is just as true in our own time; which is why Playboy devotes 14 pages of this November issue to a variegated, elegant portfolio on the bed. It includes an insightful treatise on The Psychology of sleep by Dr. T...