Playbill
December, 1972
At year's end, we all become more conscious than usual of where we've been and where we seem to be headed. The female Santa on our cover--like a ghost of Christmas past--will stir memories in the heads of those who recall those Coke ads of several decades ago. These images, which became familiar around the world, were revived expressly for Playboy by the artist who originally created them--Chicago painter Haddon Sundblom, who has shaped our visual consciousness in more ways than one: He also des...
