Playbill
January, 1994
In the beginning was the table, the typewriter, the man. As we were preparing this 40th anniversary issue of Playboy, we came across a familiar photo of Hef at work on the first issue. What a surprise to realize we were seeing the entire Playboy empire, and that it fit into one black-and-white snapshot.What was Hef typing? Was it a warm-up exercise--the quick brown fox jumped over the repressive puritan culture? Probably it was the original call to would-be readers, the blueprint for the kind of...
