Playboy Potpourri
July, 1982
The Zanies Are ComingIn his latest book, Zanies (New Century, $15.95), Chicago's pint-sized and prolific crime chronicler Jay Robert Nash profiles 172 of "the world's greatest eccentrics," from quack doctor Albert Abrams to munitions tycoon Basil Zaharoff, the "mystery man of Europe." Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin and Huey Long are also in there, along with courtesan Anne de Lenclos, who founded a Parisian school for sex education about 300 years ago. What's so zany about than?H...
