A.c. Spectorsky
May, 1972
A. C. Spectorsky, Playboy's Associate Publisher and Editorial Director, died of a stroke on the island of St. Croix on January 17. He was there in a new vacation home, far from Chicago's bitter winter, recouping the strength sapped by a previous heart attack, sending memos full of article ideas back to the magazine he was so instrumental in building, and watching the sailing ships that were his passion. He was buried at sea that day.He was born Auguste Comte Spectorsky in Paris in 1910, but he w...
