・PLAYBILL
・DEAR PLAYBOY
・PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
MOVIES
Gene Wilder's directing debut and Stanley Kubrick's long-awaited opus.
BOOKS
Both John V. Lindsay and William F. Buckley, Jr., have written first novels
about the United States Government. Is truth, indeed, stranger than fiction?
TELEVISION An Edith Piaf bio headlines a fortnight of PBS specials.
RECORDINGS.
A roundup of top-drawer female vocalists, plus John Lennon's Shaved Fish.
・SELECTED SHORTS
THE MIDDLE-CLASS SQUEEZE …… CRAIG KARPEL
HELP! PLEH! …… L. RUST HILLS
・THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
・THE PLAYBOY FORUM
・PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: NORMAN LEAR - candid conversation
TV's greatest impresario (All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, et al.)
talks about power and censorship and introduces some new shows in progress.
・HOW TO DO EVERYTHING - article …… PETER PASSELL
Advice, by a co-author of The Best, on how to repel sharks, how to cure in-
somnia, how to predict your life expectancy and much, much more.
・ENCORE EMMANUELLE! - pictorial
Next to this steamy sequel, Emmanuelle I looks like a boy-scout jamboree.
Sexy Sylvia Kristel resumes, with added kinkiness, her romp through Bangkok.
・BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - personality …… JAMES R. PETERSEN
The budding superstar from Asbury Park, New Jersey, has been the subject of
some pretty strong hype. Our author, a longtime fan, follows this living legend
on a cross-country tour and gets to know the real man behind the new myth.
・JOGGING CAN KILL YOU!-article …… J. E. SCHMIDT, M.D.
So you think running a mile a day will keep the doctor away? No such luck.
Our well-informed author gives the definitive low-down on the bodily wreck
you can make of yourself in the hallowed name of physical culture.
・PLAYBOY'S GUIDE TO THE RITES OF SPRING - survey
Sure, there are literally thousands of nice, sunny places you can go this season
for your college spring break. But where will all those gorgeous bikinied girls
be? Read our authoritative survey and find out.
・This month's cover photo of April 1975 Playmate Vicki Cunningham was shot on
location in a Chicago suburb's volunteer firehouse by photographer Paul Gremmler
and was designed by Associate Art Director Tom Staebler. It should be noted that
the volunteer firemen all volunteered their services for the occasion.
・SISTER ACT - playboy's playmate of the month
Ann Pennington, whose sister Janice was our May 1971 centerfold, proves that
beautiful things run in her family.
・PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES - humor
・WHO CAN ARREST YOU? - article …… LAURENCE GONZALES
Damn near anybody, or so it seems. A scary look at the proliferation of public
and private fuzz in this country by one of the biggest paranoids around.
・STRING FEVER - modern living
A positively sensuous, not to mention educational, survey of the best and we
mean the best-guitars (acoustic, classical and electric) money can buy.
・THE AUTUMN DOG - fiction …… PAUL THEROUX
The author of the best-selling Great Railway Bazaar spins an intriguing tale
about a May-November romance and an obscure Chinese sexual position.
・THE PULLOVER: GET IT ON!-attire
A new-old casual look to help you segue handsomely into spring.
・THE 1976 DEMOCRATIC HANDICAP - article …… DICK TUCK
Ever wonder what really goes on in those smoke-filled rooms? Our author, the
most celebrated political prankster of our time, turns his attention to prognosti-
cation. Who'll be our next President? Read it here first.
・FIRE BELLE - pictorial
Last April's Playmate, Vicki Cunningham, grew up with a fantasy about fire
fighting. Fortunately, she can light fires better than she can put them out.
・THE CONTRACT - ribald classic
・SPRING TONE-UP - attire …… ROBERT L. GREEN
Everybody has his favorite color, but how many men would wear monochro-
matic pants, shirt and jacket? Not only is it possible, it's cool.
・THE GOLDEN WHATEVER - fiction …… JORDAN CRITTENDEN
A huge conglomerate buys a small neighborhood violin shop-the result is a
new violin spin-off and some crazy mayhem.
・PLAYBOY'S HISTORY OF ASSASSINATION - article …… JAMES MCKINLEY
Louisiana's Huey "Kingfish" Long was a powerful demagog and possible politi-
cal threat to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Unanswered questions persist to
this day about his assassination. Conspiracy buffs, note.
・SCI-FFI SEX-humor …… MICHAEL FFOLKES
A spaced-out cartoonist's-eye view of extraterrestrial erotica.
・THINK TANK
Quick hits on moonshining, flywheels, organic smoking and biorhythmic betting.
・PLAYBOY POTPOURRI