Soon after, thanks to a small fortune from his father’s exclusive rights to sell Ford motorcars to Russia (until the Revolution, of course), he was able to walk into the office of Horace Liveright and buy his way into owning half the company. It entitled him, as he puts it, to “a...
Mary demanded what she wanted. She expected everyone to do her bidding. She was surprised when clothing merchants sent her bills. The line between purchase and donation was fuzzy. Mary looked for donors to buy her gowns and hats, rewarding them with political favors. When she...
Vogue, and other fashion magazines have highly sexualized images of scantily clad women on their covers. So do Playboy and and Maxim. The covers of the fashion magazines are sexually relatable to the women of their target market. The potential reader wants tobethe woman on that cover. The c...
All she needs are some bunny ears and a tail and she could be serving drinks at the Playboy mansion. And that’s not really a look I’m going for. So in general, I think if deployed properly on the right girl I could get on board with the bejeweled collar necklace. Am I quirky ...
interview, I had listened to other podcasts with some of Hef's former girlfriends (BridgetandHolly) and wifeCrystal, all of whom (except for Bridget, so FAR!) have written scathing books about Hef and their life with Playboy. I was astounded to find that he seemingly had no animosity wha...
Margaret Fishback was among the most commercially successful poets of the 1930s, a prolific writer of comic verse who probably sold more books and had more poems published in more magazines than the better-known Ogden Nash. I doing some research on Fishback recently, I was startled to see ...