 | Playmate of the Month: Merle Pertile, photographed by Frank Bez Playboy’s Penthouse Playmate | We discovered our nifty New Year’s Eve on our own TV show |
| Dear Playboy | |
| Playboy After Hours | |
| The Playboy Advisor | |
 | Biography: My Brother, Ernest Hemingway | An intimate and personal biography of the writer as man and artist, by Leicester Hemingway (Part 2) |
 | Fiction: Tell Me The Reason, Do | “In three hours every Sunday, if you’re awake and alive, you can live 10 years”, by Ken W. Purdy, illustrated by Arthur Paul |
 | Fiction: Tune Every Heart And Every Voice | You can lead a man to Princeton, but you can’t make him sing, by Irwin Shaw |
 | Humor: The Courting Of The Muse | The creator of Jeeves reveals himself as a suspicious scenarist who doesn’t trust his characters and inch, by P.G. Wodehouse |
 | Modern Living: The Fine Art Of Acquiring Fine Art | On the principles, pleasures and prices of artful connoisseurship, by Sidney Tilum |
 | Fiction: The Miracle Of Rare Device | Not far from Phoenix, they found the road to Xanadu, by Ray Bradbury, illustrated by William Gallagher |
 | Drink: Toasting The New Year | Six celebrating celebs hoist their favorite cups that cheer |
 | Satire: Telephone, by Jules Feiffer |
 | Humor: Playboy’s Party Jokes |
 | Fiction: Proposition | It is said of men, but does every woman also have her price?, by Garson Kanin |
 | Attire: Topcoats Taken Lightly | A featherweight approach to accoutering the outer man for business, weekend and night life, by Robert L. Green, illustrated by Ben Denison |
 | Humor: Retroactive New Year’s Resolutions | Playboy offers some famous folk some firm resolves they might have made last January |
 | Pictorial: Playboy’s Playmate Review | A portfolio of the past delightful dozen (Dianne Danford, Karen Thompson, Jean Cannon, Sheralee Conners, Tonya Crews, Connie Cooper, Christa Speck, Barbara Ann Lawford, Nancy Nielsen, Susan Kelly, Lynn Karrol, Heidi Becker) |
 | Humor: Word Play, by Robert Carola |
 | Fiction: The Personal Secretary | Esconced in the artist’s atelier, she fanned the fires of his inspiration, by William Saroyan, illustrated by Arthur Paul |
| Opinion: I Defy You | A stinging challenge to the censors by the author of “Tropic of Cancer”, by Henry Miller | |
 | Man At His Leisure: The French Riviera | Gallic sun, sand and sea: Neiman captures the joie de vivre of the French Riviera, by LeRoy Neiman |
 | Excerpts From the Unpublished Private Letters of D.H. Lawrence | From his personal correspondence over the twenty-five years of his writing life there emerges a self-portrait of his evolution from ardent humanist to bitter pessimist |
 | Humor: Captain Jack And Jolly George | Sicknik comedians Burns and Carlin adroitly needle TV’s saccharine kiddy shows |
 | Ribald Classic: The Husband Confessor | From La Fontaine’s Contes et Nouvelles, retold by D. Taylor Brook, illustrated by Leon Bellin |
| Travel: Playboy’s International Datebook, by Patrick Chase |
 Alberto Vargas |  Alden Erikson |  Alden Erikson |  Claude Smith |
 Eldon Dedini |  Elmer Simms Campbell |  Gahan Wilson |  Gardner Rea |
 Phil Interlandi |  Phil Interlandi |  Richard Taylor |  John Dempsey |
 Don Madden |
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