The Male Point of View [Point] (vintage pocket pinup magazine, Nov 1956)
Elliott, Bruce, and Arthur C. Kohler, Dick Uhlich (editors); Barbara Devaey, Barbara Renze (art dept.), Chester Cohen, Tom Parrish, John Fletcher, Bob Karlson, Allan Lindstrom, Arnold Trelevyn (authors); Richard Shapiro (circulation); International news, Prange, Keystone, Douglas Aircraft, Globe, Three Lions, Canadian Film Board Review, Blackwell, P.I.P., Topix (photographers)
The Male Point of View [Point] (vintage pocket pinup magazine, Nov 1956)
Atlanta, GA: Point Magazines, 1956. V5 N5, November 1956. Vintage pocket-sized non-nude pinup magazine devoted to news, culture, celebrity, sports. Blonde Eve Williams in red-stripe bikini front cover (Blackwell), house favorite Shirley Kilpatrick kneeling on table in geometric bikini & perfect hair/makeup rear cover (Prange OR Topix).
Title lasted about 30 issues (1955-58), New York editorial offices, featured a Marilyn Monroe cover (4/59), eventually became 1960s newsstand men's magazine, "Man's Point of View."
Frances Beck front inside, ballet (Pamela Perry, Felicia Farr, Diane Hingley, Noelle Adams, Norma Arnould, Karen Sharpe, Vera Day), test pilots & supersonic jets, June Blair, Joyce Winfield, Gere Goss, Karate, sex laws, Anne Fleming center, Olympics, the "first cowboy," Lynn Bartno 5pp, Bill Ward art 1p, Mt. McKinley climbers, Chris Mara, Irene Twinam, Audie Ragona, Joyce Mosely, Rusty Beaumont rear inside in scarf. Several beach photos.
B/W throughout, 66pp, 4 x 5.75 inches. Near Fine, light rubbing.
Todd Frye, "Collecting Vintage Men's Magazines," 2013. [Book ID 126046] [Magazines]