Playbill
June, 1961
Our june cover borrows a page from a dictionary for its design and includes, therein, several brief definitions of the word playboy – the man, not the magazine – that are partly Webster's and partly our own. When we first began publishing Playboy – the magazine, not the man – the word had lost much of its earlier popularity (garnered during the Twenties) and was actually a term of disrespect. We attempted, therefore, in a subscription pitch published in April 1956, to explain just what we meant...
