| Dear Playboy |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/t-195509-closed-shop.jpg) | Fiction: The Closed Shop | When the madams of a nation get together, let the president beware!, by W. Somerset Maugham, illustrated by Richard Tyler |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/t-195509-collecting-jazz.jpg) | Jazz: Collecting Jazz | About discophiles, their records, and starting a collection of your own, by James H. Lavely |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/t-195509-spy-story.jpg) | Fiction: Spy Story | Bill didn’t mind being shadowed — but incompetent shadows were really the last straw, by Robert Sheckley |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/t-195509-fair-forms-and-foul-fiends-2.jpg) | Pictorial: Fair Forms And Foul Fiends | The magazines of yesteryear out-Mickied Spillaine |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/t-195509-mixing-the-perfect-martini-1.jpg) | Pictorial: Mixing The Perfect Martini | The secret of success is precision, by Stan Ceplius |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/t-195509-big-bosom-battle.jpg) | Article: The Big Bosom Battle | An eminent medico says “down with bosoms.” We say “down with necklines.” En garde, doc!, by Jay Smith |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/t-195509-mating-season.jpg) | Fiction: Mating Season | ‘Twas a green book and a gold-haired girl that brought the color to Terry’s face, and him not a wicked boy at all, al all, by Charles Lee Robinson |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/t-195509-basic-wardrobe-1.jpg) | Attire: The Basic Wardrobe | For fall and winter wear, a closetful of good taste, by Jack J. Kessie, illustrated by LeRoy Neiman |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/t-195509-party-jokes.jpeg) | Humor: Playboy’s Party Jokes |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/t-195509-playboy-reader.jpg) | Survey: The Playboy Reader | About the man who buys the magazine |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/t-195509-sammy-davis-story.jpg) | Entertainment: “The Sammy Davis Story” | His life would make a colossal Hollywood musical, by Eric Franklin |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/t-195509-italian-dishes.jpg) | Food: Audacious Italian Dishes | And we don’t mean Mangano or Lollobrigida, by Thomas Mario, illustrated by Morton Shapiro |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/t-195509-pink-elephants-1.jpg) | Pictorial: Pink Elephants And Purple Hair | New York press agents are painting the town |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/t-195509-top-of-the-heap.jpg) | Satire: The Top Of The Heap | The last word on how to succeed in business without really trying, by Shepherd Mead, illustrated by Claude Smith |
![](https://pipeandpjs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/t-195509-ribald-classic.jpg) | Ribald Classic: The Ring And The Garter | A new translation of a true episode from the Mémoires of Casanova |