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Hugh M. Hefner is also an American legend. He is 42, and he is going through a change of life. But Hefner's Playboy empire has made him a millionaire 100 times over. He has no boss to bitch about, no wife to bore him, and he somewhat euphemistically claims to be "the biggest employer of beautiful women in the world." So what does he have to rebel against...
Similarly symbolic of Hefner's desire for self-exposure is his appearance on television as host of Playboy After Dark, a new 26-week variety series that so far has been syndicated in 23 cities. Filmed at the CBS-TV studios in Hollywood on a special $35,000 set that includes a den, living room and rumpus room, PAD pretends to be an impromptu party, just Hef and 39 close friends (20 girls, 19 guys) turning on for the tuners-in. "Actually, there are two purposes behind the show," says Hefner. "One is to force me to change...
Even the flamboyant Hinckle, who searched for financial angels in night clubs, became so enamored of the swinging life that he talked to Playboy about a job-and was turned down...
...largely concerned with the more serious news-Viet Nam, the capture of the Pueblo, politics at home and abroad, student protest, urban unrest, assassination. In other years, readers seemed more concerned with lighter stories. In 1967 the article that drew the most mail was the cover story about Playboy's Hugh Hefner; in 1968, it was the cover that reported on the violence at the Democratic Convention in Chicago...
...Turin and, at 32, he married swan-necked Princess Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto. As Gianni's mother was, Marella is half-American; her own mother came from Peoria, Ill., and, on a trip to Italy, met and married Prince Filippo, Duke of Melito. Agnelli has played down the playboy image, but he still is occasionally the last man out of a nightclub. Recalling his earlier years, he says: "People had fun because they wanted to. Present-day playboys play for the public. Values today are of very bad quality. One may have had bad habits in the old days...