He was firm in his conviction that shrubs had to be youngened at least once a year.

The iconic Playboy Interview feature launched in 1962 with future Roots author Alex Haley interviewing Miles Davis ([Hugh] Hefner was a huge jazz aficionado and later founded the Playboy Jazz Festival) and would eventually feature many luminaries, setting the stage for the ongoing joke, We really read Playboy for the articles.

Tuesday evening a smokerette was held in the ballroom of the William Penn. Dancing followed entertainment, which varied from “community” singing to the reading of a very serious paper on the “Plasticity of Clay” by Dr. B. Rouhland, a German scientist scheduled to appear before the Terra Cotta Division on Wednesday, but granted permission by Dr. Tillotson to speak on this occasion.

‘Ignorant girls. Dizzy young things. It seems to be my fate always to be landed with these flibbertigibbets.’