Playboy July 1985

COVER STORY
Why do cover girls wear red-white-and-blue suspenders? To keep your hopes up. We can't give away everything on the cover, after all. Otherwise, you would never turn to this page and learn that our Fourth-of-July cover photo—produced by West Coast Photo Editor Marilyn Grabowski and shot by Contributing Photographer Stephen Wayda—features Miss October 1983, the star-spangled Tracy Vaccaro. Oh, say, have you ever seen anything better?

5 PLAYBILL
11 DEAR PLAYBOY
15 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
37 SPORTS BY DAN JENKINS
41 TRAVEL BY STEPHEN BIRNBAUM
43 MEN BY ASA BABER
45 WOMEN BY CYNTHIA HEIMEL
47 AGAINST THE WIND CRAIG VETTER
49 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
51 DEAR PLAYMATES
53 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
61 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: ROB REINER—candid conversation
78 WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE?—article SUSAN SQUIRE
82 AMAZING GRACE—pictorial
88 HEIRS OF THE PERISPHERE—fiction HOWARD WALDROP
91 AND THE HEAT GOES ON—fashion HOLLIS WAYNE
94 BREATHE DEEP—fiction DONALD E. WESTLAKE
96 JUST HAVING FUN—playboy's playmate of the month
110 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor
112 AMERICAN HERO—memoir CHUCK YEAGER and LEO JANOS
114 PLAYBOY BY DESIGN—modern living
116 THE SUMMERTIME BREWS—drink MICHAEL JACKSON
120 THE VCR ATE MY BRAIN—article PAUL SLANSKY
122 VOLLEYBALL GODS—sports MIKE SAGER
126 SHEER MADNESS—pictorial
139 SWIMMING TAUGHT SCIENTIFICALLY—humor MARK O'DONNELL
140 AND THREE TO GO!—modern living
142 20 QUESTIONS: JAMIE LEE CURTIS
148 THE GIRL WHO WENT TO WAR—pictorial
153 PLAYBOY FUNNIES—humor
205 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE