The Magazine Hugh Hefner Worked For Before Playboy

Though he studied psychology in faculty, Hugh Hefner all the time had journalistic abilities. He attended the College of Illinois, the place he majored within the behavioral science subject till he graduated in 1949, per his alma mater’s newspaper. Whereas there he wrote and drew cartoons for The Every day Illini. However his first style of what would change into Playboy was when he was briefly the managing editor of an unbiased faculty journal referred to as The Shaft. The first viewers of this publication had been veterans, like Hefner, who had been additionally in class underneath the G.I. Invoice, per The Information Gazette. The short-lived publication featured racy photos and suggestive content material.

After graduating, Hefner acquired married and returned to high school, says Biography. He acquired a break when he was employed for a copywriting job at Esquire journal — his first actual job at a publication. Nevertheless his time on the journal had a nasty finish when he was refused a $5 elevate. Hefner give up after being denied the pay improve and got down to create his personal, extra fashionable males’s journal. After securing $8,000 from buyers (together with his mom) and from promoting a few of his belongings, he got down to work on the very first problem of Playboy from his kitchen desk, says the Chicago Tribune.

The five-part documentary collection “Secrets and techniques of Playboy” begins streaming January 24 on A&E.