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Elsa Sørensen: Miss Denmark, Dane Arden, and the Double Life of a 1950s Glamour Model
Born in Copenhagen, crowned Miss Denmark, and photographed by Peter Gowland for Playboy's September 1956 centrefold. Elsa Sørensen led two parallel careers under two different names, and hardly anyone noticed.


Jean Harlow: The Platinum Blonde Who Burned Too Bright
Jean Harlow was Hollywood's first platinum blonde bombshell. Behind the glamour was a domineering mother, three troubled marriages, a husband's suspicious death, and a body quietly failing at 26.


Juan Romero: How a Teenager's Thirty Seconds With RFK Haunted Him For Fifty Years
: The story of Juan Romero, the 17-year-old busboy who cradled dying Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. How he lived with guilt for 50 years and eventually found peace.


Alfred Cheney Johnston: The Man Who Made the Ziegfeld Girls Immortal
Alfred Cheney Johnston turned the Ziegfeld Follies girls into photographic legends. Discover the story of the photographer behind the most iconic showgirl portraits of the 1920s and 30s.


The Thammasat University Massacre: The Day Thailand Turned on Its Students
On 6 October 1976, Thai police and right-wing militias massacred unarmed students at Thammasat University in Bangkok. Here's the full story of what happened, and why it's been silenced ever since.


Anita Ekberg: The Swedish Bombshell Who Conquered Hollywood and Fellini's Rome
She replaced Marilyn Monroe on a Bob Hope tour, waded into the Trevi Fountain in a black gown, and made Playboy before she made film history. This is Anita Ekberg.
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