56 JUST WHO CONTROLS THE NEWS MEDIA ANYWAY, HUH?... investigative reportage.
(NAME WITHHELD)
With conspiracies surrounding us all and even our best friends plotting to do
us in, how can we really know who to trust and who to disbelieve, The specter
of disinformation is everywhere—just think about what your mother told
you about sex. We've finally got it unraveled for you and, lo and behold, you're
not paranoid after all; you've got it right.
59 ITEMS FROM OUR CHRISTMAS CATALOG—christmas gifts ...ALFRED GINGOLD
It'll be a cold day at the North Pole before Kris Kringle can match this bounty
of mouth-watering stocking-stuffers. But seriously, this is the most outrageous
array of leverage any 11th Hour Santa could expect! And they're from the most
famous "Items" guy of them all. If you don't find your heart's desire
here, your heart's not in the right place.
63 THE GIRLS OF PENTHOUSE—pictorial
We've never believed the old saw that if you stand 'em on their heads they all
look alike, but we sure are getting hard up for new "Girls Of" features.
This month we came up with an idea that just could keep us going for another
thirty years. Think of all the possibilities.
71 PLAYBOY'S AUTOPEDIA 1984—modern living BRUCE McCALL
Our preview and review of the latest and newest four-wheeled friends is sure
to send Lee Iacocca running back to the loan desk. If your mouths don't water
at this array of revved-up horseless buggies, you're just not pumping ethyl.
77 SHEL SHOCKED—poetry SHEL SHOCK
A rhyme doesn't have to rhyme to be a poem and our chrome-domed boheMian here
versifies for maximum market appeal, proving yet again that he's a man born
of caesurian section.
THE UNRELEASED NOVEMBER 1963 PLAYBOY—history
After thirty years, we believe that Playboy is truly a part of the American
scene. November 1963 was a critical, historic moment that divided two eras,
as it were (and it did). In an unprecedented feat of publishing archaeology,
we have unearthed the "lost" November 1963 issue, the only issue we
never put out. "The saddest are these: 'It might have been!' "
INTRODUCTION 81
COVER 83
PLAYBOY CLUB NEWS 42
PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: JOHN F. KENNEDY 25
THE PLAYBOY ROUND TABLE—prognostication 36
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE ENTRANCE—fiction IAM FLENING 48
SOUTH VIETNAM: SEX WITH A NEW SLANT—travel 58
PLAYBOY'S ALL-STAR NEGRO POLL 75
THE SICK WORLD OF LENNY BRUCE—personality . . .NOT HENTOFF 69
LITTLE GRAnnie FANNY—cartoon synthesis 100
In which our heroine, who has now ripened in the fullness of time, proves beyond
a doubt that beyond mammary kick ball, geriatric sex is never wasted on the
young.
102 NEXT MONTH
A sensitive and revealing description of what might appear in next month's PLAYBOY
The Parody if in fact such a magazine existed which it doesn't. Of course then
we'd have to write it.