Free Preview: Playmate of the Month August 1967 - DeDe Lind

DEDE GIRL a taste of travel finds our soft-spoken, freckle-faced August Miss poised for future flight "Fair and softly goe far"--a lilting English proverb six centuries old--doubly describes DeDe Lind, our perky August Playmate. Diminutive in inches and pounds (62 and 98, respectively), DeDe Lind has a woman's figure and a fall of bright blonde hair as alluring as Lady Godiva's. And she's soft-spoken to the point of charming shyness. "I wish I weren't quite so quiet," DeDe says. "I really do like people and wish I could meet them more easily." DeDe's reserve helps account for the fact that she's left her native Southern California only twice in her 20 years, for visits to relatives in San Francisco (the journey is captured in the accompanying Playboy photos) and in Denver. But why leave, when her Los Angeles days are filled with familiar friends and activities? Before noon on a typical day, DeDe revs up her 1959 Ford and takes off for one of her four favorite places: "It depends on my energy," Miss August says. "If I don't feel ambitious, I'll go for an easy horseback ride in Griffith Park, which is right in the city, or head in the opposite direction for a quiet afternoon on the beach. But if I'm loaded with get-up-and-go and the weather's great, I do the same things on a bigger scale. My favorite horse is at a little beach in Malibu. From there I climb up through the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. The beaches I like best are out on Catalina Island, where I g...