Hugh Hefner, the famous founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, has died. He was 91 years old.
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Hefner was born in Chicago in 1926, and he served in the U.S. Army as an infantry clerk after high school, from 1944 to 1946.
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He contributed cartoons for the military newspaper. Hefner was posted at Camp Adair in Oregon and Camp Pickett in Virginia.
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Hefner was honorably discharged in 1946, and he went on to graduate from the University of Illinois in 1949 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a double minor in creative writing and art.
He would later drop out of Northwestern University, where he was taking graduate courses in sociology, and in 1953 launched Playboy magazine.
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Hefner is immortalized as the man who wore silk pajamas, smoked a pipe, surrounded himself by beautiful women and threw over-the-top soirees at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.
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