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February 1975

Cover: Playmate Laura Misch, photographed by Richard Fegley
Playmate of the Month:
Laura Misch, photographed by Richard Fegley

Delta Lady | Meet Laura Misch, a New Orleans lovely who’s taken the Crescent City to her heart. Lucky New Orleans
Dear Playboy
Playboy After Hours
The Playboy Advisor
The Playboy Forum
Playboy Interview: Mel Brooks | A candid conversation with the emperor of off-the-wall comedy
Fiction: The Admiralty Spire | Dear lady novelist: How day you kidnap my past?, by Vladimir Nabokov, illustrated by Kerig Pope
Personality: Jimmy Connors Against the World | So why is everybody rooting for the world?, by Peter Ross Range, illustrated by David Willardson
Pictorial: Linda Lovelace for President | In her latest film, the star of “Deep Throat” does down in history as the nominee with the best pubic image, photographed by Ken Marcus and Charles W. Bush
Article: Banks on the Brink | Bankers — those once good, gray, conservative souls — have been playing it fast and loose lately. That kind of thing takes money. They’ve been losing yours, by John B. Tipton, illustrated by Alex Ebel
Article: Stress | Sure, you can handle taxes and divorce and muggers and inflation. Problem is you’re carrying around some fatally dumb glands that just can’t cope, by Stephen H. Yafa, illustrated by Martin Wanserski
Modern Living: The Big Squeeze | A Knievel-type girl from Beloit got help from her friends in Detroit … they upgraded her leaping (Kept the Reaper from reaping) by shrinking their cars. How adroit!, by Brock Yates, photographed by Bill Arsenault
Fiction: Goodbye, Bob | Art and Pat cordially invite you to a farewll gala for Bob — who plans to kill himself tonight, by Malcolm Braly
Humor: Playboy’s Party Jokes
Article: Going Down in Valdeez | There’re strange things done ‘neath the midnight sun by the men who toil for oil, by Harry Crews, illustrated by Chet Jezierski
Attire: Fit to be Untied | No need to make every elegant outing a necktie party. Four ways to forgo the four-in-hand, by Robert L. Green, photographed by Oliviero Toscani
Humor: The Cheaters | If all the misunderstood spouses were laid end to end, they’d love it!, by John Dempsey
Parody: Working? | Studs Terkel’s big book showed just how much people like to talk about their jobs and how much they hate what they do. Studs might be a great interviewer, but he missed a few, by Laurence Gongales, illustrated by Ignacio Gomez
Pictorial: The French Maid | Mon dieu! Show us the clod who said that service is a dying art, photographed by Richard Fegley
Fiction: The Man under the Front Porch | He might have been reading the gas meter — except the gas meter wasn’t there, by Jordan Crittenden, illustrated by Elwood H. Smith
Pictorial: Vargas Girl, by Alberto Vargas
Ribald Classic: The Best of Both Worlds | From I Ragionamenti, by Pietro Aretino, retold by Phil Brown, illustrated by Brad Holland
Accouterments: Gold! | For the first time since 1934, you can bank it or bury it — but you might as well have some fun with it, photographed by Don Azuma
Article: Jazz & Pop ’75 | A look at the current music scene — plus the winners of the 19th annual Playboy poll and readers’ choices for the Playboy Jazz & Pop Hall of Fame and records of the year, by Nat Hentoff, illustrated by Larry Gerber
Drink: Drinks that Made the Twenties Roar | Speak-easy concoctions from the days when booze was banned, by Emanuel Greenberg, photographed by Dwight Hooker
Pictorial: Frank Gallo — Sexpressionist | One of America’s most sensuous sculptors turns his attention to matters erotic
Playboy Potpourri

Alden Erikson

Bernard Kliban

Buck Brown

Dink Siegel

Eldon Dedini

Erich Sokol

Francis Wilford Smith

Gahan Wilson

Phil Interlandi

Michael Ffolkes

Doug Sneyd

Playboy Book Club ad

Playboy Club ad

Subscription ad (with Playmate Cyndi Wood)

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