Miss Beatnik of 1959
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"Angel", a Brooklyn College student, was selected Miss Beatnik of 1959. She is posing on MacDougal Street, in front of the
1931 Chevrolet Independence wood-wheeled roadster owned by radio monologuist Jean Shepherd. Miss Beatnik is now a psychoanalyst, mother of three, and a grandmother. |
PLAYBOY does Miss Beat of 1959
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July 1959 issue of PLAYBOY featured "Yvette Vickers" as "BEAT PLAYMATE" of July, with photo spread and accompanying "bio" describing her as a 'movie hopeful' and 'bohemain'. |
This issue also featured "The Coffee Houses of America", a story on Greenwich
and Hollywood scenes and most notably reprinted poems by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg
, and GregoryCorso
POETRY PAGE REPRODUCED