Playbill

December, 1964

LeRoy Neiman's Lissome Galatea, the Playboy Femlin, proves a perky holiday pen pal in bidding the reader welcome to our gala Christmas Gift Issue. We think it's a splendid Santa's sack burgeoning with festive goodies, starting right off with our lead fiction, Once, in Aleppo, by estimable American expatriate Irwin Shaw, who has lived in Europe since 1951. Shaw, currently in the States researching a novel to be titled The Uncaged Man, tells us that the exotic background for Aleppo is still fresh...

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