This last 12 months a dozen different girls from across the U.S. have graced playboy's Playmate pages and thus brightened the lives of countless American men. One was an import from Denmark, two came from Texas, one from the Bronx; one is a writer, another a telephone operator, one works for our magazine. All 12 have one thing in common: they are beautiful in both face and figure. We've asked them all back again, as is our custom, for a year-end curtain call. Which one, would you say, deserves the title: playmate of the Year?
Alice Denham: a phi beta kappa writer was a pillow-fighting miss july
Marguerite Empey: godfrey toasted pert miss february and her breakfast toast
Marian Stafford: miss march was a tv actress and playboy's very first triple-page fold-out playmate
Marion Scot: the iceman cameth and the ice melteth for our gay miss may
Gloria Walker: a telephone operator from the bronx played a game of chess in sultry june
Betty Blue: an office manager, she managed to make a nifty miss november
Lisa Winters: a balmy yule in a swimming pool was enjoyed by miss december
Lynn Turner: miss january wore silver nail-polish to play backgammon
Jonnie Nicely: a grade-a miss august had a quart of milk delivered
Elsa Sorensen: miss september received roses with a smile so sweet that crooner guy mitchell up and married her not long after
Rusty Fisher: miss april proved blue jeans can be enchanting
Janet Pilgrim: this subscription supervising miss october made all our circulations rise
