Playboy After Hours

December, 1961

We were the recipient of a telephonic cry for help from a fellow fourth estater the other day. Our caller was the editor of the Courier-Review, the local newspaper of Barrington, Illinois, an exurban hamlet which has been pejoratively described as a road-company Westport. His plea for succor was not a selfish one: his readers were confronted with a thorny problem entailing the maintenance of status in a changing society -- and we were glad to offer our assistance to a colleague and, via him, to...