Playboy After Hours
September, 1972
In June 1970, under the title Tailor-Made Turndowns, we published a series of tongue-in-cheek magazine rejection slips. Our premise was that these heartbreaking notices of would-be writers' failures, instead of being bureaucratically toneless, could be stylishly suited to the publications sending them out--if only they were invested with a little dash, a little strut and a little feeling. Now truth has caught up with our fantasies. An old friend of ours--a gagwriter who occasionally dabbles in p...