Playbill

July, 1965

Our sparkling Fourth-of-Julyful Bunny Joey Thorpe, in her second cover appearance (her first was in September 1963), offers a light-fantastic encomium to Independence Day—and sets the celebrational tone of the issue at hand, which we think you'll find more fun than a string of Chinese firecrackers. Kicking off the fireworks within is Jean Shepherd's mirthful memoir of an unforgettably explosive Fourth back home in Indiana: Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb That Struck Back. A butterfingered pyrote...