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Joined Aug 19, Threads Messages 1, Credits 14, You do not have permission to view the full content of this Thread. Log in or Register now. If you have already registered then confirm your account from your email address. Click to expand Hefner and co-founder and executive vice-president Eldon Sellers met to seek a new name. Sellers, whose mother had worked for the Chicago sales office of the short-lived Playboy Automobile Company, suggested "Playboy.
He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen. The first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe , although the picture used originally was taken for a calendar rather than for Playboy. The first issue sold out in weeks.
Known circulation was 53, The Playboy logo, the stylized profile of a rabbit wearing a tuxedo bow tie, was originally designed by art designer Art Paul for the second issue to be used as an end note, but was adopted as the official logo, and has appeared ever since.
A running joke in the magazine involves hiding the logo somewhere in the cover art or photograph. Hefner said he chose the rabbit for its "humorous sexual connotation," and because the image was "frisky and playful. From to except for a six month gap in , the "P" in Playboy had stars printed in or around the letter. The legend stated that this was either a rating that Hefner gave to the Playmate according to how attractive she was, the number of times that Hefner had slept with her, or how good she was in bed.
The stars, between zero and twelve, actually indicated the domestic or international advertising region for that printing. Donleavy , as well as poetry by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Macauley also contributed all of the popular Ribald Classics series published between January and March Christie Hefner , daughter of the founder Hugh Hefner, joined Playboy in and became head of the company in She announced in December that she would be stepping down from leading the company, effective in January , and said that the election of Barack Obama as the next President had inspired her to give more time to charitable work, and that the decision to step down was her own.
Hugh Hefner and a group of private investors bought the magazine back in early , going full circle back to total control. The magazine celebrated its 50th anniversary with the January issue. The magazine runs several annual features and ratings.
One of the most popular is its annual ranking of the top "party schools" among all U.
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