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'Playboy' Founder Hugh Hefner, Champion Of Free Speech And 'Smut,' Dies At 91

Scott Simon

Hefner's magazine was blamed for (or credited with) setting off a cultural revolution in America, but within a few years he was branded a male chauvinist.

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