Playboy Potpourri
January, 1973
Period Periodical"Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight," wrote American poetess Elizabeth Akers Allen back in 1860. And if she'd hung around until now, she could have got her wish by subscribing to a 100-page digest-sized English magazine called Then, which reconstructs a single year from the past, reporting on major and minor events with direct quotes and illustrations from periodicals of the era. So far the staff of Then has covered three big ones--1848, 1901 and 1920; you...
