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A descendent of Plymouth governor William Bradford from back in America's colonial days, Hefner was born in Chicago in 1926. He always had smarts (he had an IQ rating of 152 as a child) and showed an interest in the journalistic life early on when he started a high school newspaper. Upon graduation in 1944 he enlisted in the Army as an infantry clerk; during Basic Training he won a sharpshooter badge for firing the M1 and made it through "Killer College," in which troops went through maneuvers while throwing real grenades. Posted at Camp Adair in Salem, Oregon, and Camp Pickett in Virginia, Hefner contributed cartoons for Army newspapers.
Upon his release from the Army in 1946 he continued his pursuit of art with classes at the Chicago Art Institute, along with a bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In the early 50s Hefner made his first mark in the publishing world with a job as a copywriter at Esquire magazine in Chicago, but ended up leaving the magazine in 1953 after he was refused a $5 raise. Determined to make his own name, and wanting to create a magazine that appealed to spicier tastes. In his words, "Esquire was always for older guys but it had changed and like other magazines that were more popular, it was very much devoted to male bonding and outdoor adventure... I wanted to read a magazine that was a little more sophisticated and was focused really on the romantic connection between the sexes from a male point of view."
Hefner raised $8,000 on his own (including a $1,000 contribution from his own mother) to launch his magazine; the name "Playboy" came from a suggestion to adopt the name of a defunct auto company in Chicago (originally the publication was to be called Stag Party, but Stag magazine owned the rights to the name). The first issue was produced in Hefner's kitchen, but when he included a nude photo of Marilyn Monroe in the middle of the magazine, a new word ("centerfold") and a phenomenon was born.
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And for all the feminazi women that hate playboy.....well they only have themselves to blame. Why do I say that? Well it's because he and his first wife, pre-playboy mag, were saving themselves for marriage. During WWII he served as a writer for a military newspaper and during that time the bitch lost her virginity to another man and only told Hef the truth right before their wedding. That's what lead him to the playboy lifestyle and the creation of the mag itself.Penner wrote:Hugh Hefner dies at 91:
http://www.eonline.com/news/799103/hugh ... c-magazineSex sells and Hugh Hefner found a way to sell it perhaps better than anybody in the 20th century.
The founder of Playboy and the publishing house built up around the pioneering men's magazine, which combined sex and intellectual stimulation, has died. He was 91.
There is a time for good men to do bad things.
For fuck sake, 1984 is NOT an instruction manual!
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For fuck sake, 1984 is NOT an instruction manual!
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For us oldies, Monty was a big part of childhood pre-cable TV.
Monty Hall, Co-Creator and Host of ‘Let’s Make a Deal,’ Dies at 96 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/obit ... d=tw-share
Hopefully Monty switched doors and didn't stick.
Monty Hall, Co-Creator and Host of ‘Let’s Make a Deal,’ Dies at 96 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/obit ... d=tw-share
Hopefully Monty switched doors and didn't stick.
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Srsly, fuck 2017. This is nuts.