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  • John Stater@JohnStater

    In regards to Playboy and Hefner and originality/invention - reminds me of the idea of "firsts" or "ground breaking series" on early television, when just about everything they did was done on radio first (and sometimes even on earlier, less-remembered TV first).

    I will say this, though - Hefner and Playboy did seem to, at least for a while, make girly magazines mainstream, or maybe pseudo-sophisticated. I've recently been watching episodes of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which I think most people who categorize as wholesome, and was tickled to find that David Nelson's first wife on the show (and in real life) had appeared in Playboy magazine as the playmate of the month for January 1957. A Playboy model on Ozzie & Harriet - probably not what people would expect of the period, but then what most people think about the 1950's is askew.

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