Playboy In The News

March, 1981

When the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith announced last September that it was giving its First Amendment Freedoms Award to Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner, the news was apparently more than conservative pundit William F. Buckley, Jr., could bear. It was probably only a temporary snap, caused by the strain of his dauntless mission to convince people that God is a conservative. In a moment of apostolic apoplexy, Bill Buckley wrote a nationally syndicated column criticizing the A.D.L. and Hefn...