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Playboy January 1961

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Playboy January 1961
Playboy's Playmate of the Month Connie Cooper photographed by Morton Smith Features "All the Week in the World" by Fritz Leiber "Conversation Piece" by Ken Purdy "A Liberal Darling and Concerning the Drama" by Anton Chekhov "Hemingway Speaks His Mind" by Ernest Hemingway |  |
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Playboy February 1961

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Playboy February 1961
Playboy's Playmate of the Month Barbara Ann Lawford (covergirl) photographed by Mario Casilli Covergirl Barbara Ann Lawford (Nude inside and also appears as the centerfold) photographed by Mario Casilli Features "That Sweet Sinner and Traveling I" by Herbert Gold The Girls Of New York "The Room" by Ray Russell "The Voice of the Turkey" by Al Morgan |  |
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Playboy March 1961

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Playboy March 1961
Playboy's Playmate of the Month Tanya Crews photographed by Mario Casilli Covergirl Unknown (Not nude) Interview Lenny Bruce, Bill Dana, Jules Feiffer and More by Playboy Panel
Features Playboy Panel: Hip Comics and the New Humor "The Machine in Ward Eleven" by Charles Willeford "The Illustrated Woman" by Ray Bradbury "Comics" by Charles Beaumont |  |
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Playboy April 1961

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Playboy April 1961
Playboy's Playmate of the Month Nancy Nielson photographed by Not Available Covergirl Femlin (Nude inside) Features On The Scene: David Merrick, Herbert Mayes, Gunther Schuller "The Emancipated Man" by John Wallace "The Bottom of the Ocean" by Ken Purdy "Business Blunders and Booby Traps" by J. Paul Getty |  |
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Playboy May 1961

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Playboy May 1961
Playboy's Playmate of the Month Susan Kelly photographed by Frank Bez Covergirl Judy Newton (Not nude) Features "The Hobbyist" by Fredric Brown "Speak to Me of Immorality" by Ken Purdy The Girls Of Sweden "The Laughingstock" by Gerald Kersh |  |
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Playboy June 1961

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Playboy June 1961
Playboy's Playmate of the Month Heidi Becker photographed by Mario Casilli Features "The Greate American Divide" by Herbert Gold "The Hell-Fire Club" by Gerald Walker "Marcianna & The Natural Carpaine in Papaya" by Bernard Wolfe "Punch" by Frederik Pohl |  |
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Playboy July 1961

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Playboy July 1961
Playboy's Playmate of the Month Sheralee Conners photographed by William Crespinel Interview Dr. Albert Ellis, Ralph Ginzburg, Maurice Girodias and More by Playboy Panel
Features "The Inconsequential Pepsqueaks" by Leland Webb The Playboy Panel: Sex and Censorship in Literature and the Arts "For Whom the Booth Tolls" by Barry Spacks "The Fifteenth Station" by T.K Brown III. |  |
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Playboy August 1961

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Playboy August 1961
Playboy's Playmate of the Month Karen Thompson photographed by Mario Casilli Covergirl The Playboy Bunny (Not nude) Features "The Defeat of the Demon Tailor" by Gerald Kersh The Girls Of Hawaii: Lenore Trumbull, Reri Tava, Robin Sowers, Ruth Moore, Susan Hart, and More! "Classic Cars of the Thirties" by Ken Purdy "The Killer in the TV Set" by Bruce Jay Friedman |  |
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Playboy September 1961

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Playboy September 1961
Playboy's Playmate of the Month Christa Speck photographed by Sam Wu Covergirl Barbara Ann Lawford (Not nude) Features "The Lion's Share" by Harvey Jacobs "The Pursuit of Perfection" by Richard Carter "A Short History of Swearing" by William Iversen "Status-Ticians in Limbo" by Murray Kempton |  |
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Playboy October 1961

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Playboy October 1961
Playboy's Playmate of the Month Jean Cannon photographed by Ron Vogel Covergirl Unidentified Models (Not nude) Features "The Year the Yankees Won the Pennant" by Jeremy Dole On The Scene: A.M. Sonnabend, Oscar Brown, Jr., Bertrand Goldberg "Take Me to Your Leader" by Gerald Walker "A Short History of Bathing" by William Iversen |  |
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Playboy November 1961

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Playboy November 1961
Playboy's Playmate of the Month Diane Danford photographed by Mario Casilli Covergirl Unknown (Not nude) Interview John Crosby, Mike Dann, John Frankenheimer, Stan Freberg and More by Playboy Panel
Features "The Little World of Patrick Dennis" by Allen Churchill The Playboy Panel: TV's Problems and Prospects "Agoraphobia Is In the Public Domain" by Bernard Wolfe "The Normal Man" by William Masters |  |
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Playboy December 1961

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Playboy December 1961
Playboy's Playmate of the Month Lynn Karroll photographed by Frank Eck Covergirl Delores Wells (Nude inside) Interview Ernest Hemingway (Biography, No Interview) by Leicester Hemingway
Features "Square Christmas" by Walt Grove "Wall Street Is Not Monte Carlo" by J. Paul Getty "Modus Bibendi" by Alex Waugh "Professor Hyde" by Thomas Berger |  |
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