Free Preview: Playmate of the Month March 1967 - Fran Gerard

STARS IN HER EYES We predict a sparkling future for our heavenly bodied Miss March Generously configured Fran Gerard is a girl for the stars. She works with them -- as an astrologer's assistant in sunny Southern Cal -- and lives by them. Born under the sign of Aries, Fran should be warm, outgoing, charming and strong-willed -- and she is. And, living as she does under her planet, Mars, she has been instilled with "a great deal of natural courage, a love of pioneering, testing, experimenting, investigating" -- at least, according to her sign. "I guess that's why I've always liked the science," says the pretty assistant stargazer who tends the office of a Hollywood astrology teacher. "We're forever searching the cosmos for new meanings." Our plenipotent Playmate is as versant with combos as with cosmos: "Charlie Parker's Ornithology was the greatest single ever made," says Fran, "and I think 'E.S.P.' by Miles Davis is the best LP." Sinatra is her favorite singer (especially Cottage for Sale. "Actually," she says, "I have lots of favorites, like artists Marc Chagall and Salvador Dali. They capture so much of the glory of the universe in their work, but I don't think I'm being stuffy: I like Batman, too." Fran credits another favorite, a book, with being the source of all this happiness and satisfaction. "It's The Magic of Believing by C. M. Bristol. It helps you to think positively." The positively smashing Miss Gerard's idea of a perfect man? Clark Gable. "Remember him as...