- advertisement -  Hugh Hefner stays focused on his subject
Hugh Hefner and a real bunny Click to enlarge The name Hugh
Hefner is one that sends chills of envy up men's spines. We all
know the image: adorned in silk pajamas amidst a bevy of buxom
beauties, the epitome of the cosmopolitan lifestyle, regaling
Hollywood royalty at the ultimate bacchanalia in a mansion
seemingly sent from Valhalla just for that purpose. For 50
years, men the world over have uttered the same sentence
thousands upon thousands of times.  "Hugh Hefner is the luckiest
man in the world."  But of course, as with most stories of this
nature, Hef's luck is self-created. Hef, shockingly a virgin
until the age of 22, was a married, 27-year-old father of a
newborn baby when he started Playboy with $8,000 in 1953. Until
that point, he had been a copywriter for Esquire, a cartoonist,
a personnel manager for a box company and the circulation
manager of Children's Activities magazine. But he thought
America was ready for a more sophisticated fo