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Endpoint: Anson Mount (Magazine Editor)



created on: 14/05/2025
by: Lo55o (13476)
 
 

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Anson Adams Mount II (born 24 November 1925 in Petersburg, Washington Township, Pike, Indiana, USA - died 11 October 1986 in Dickson, Tennessee, USA (aged 60)) was a magazine editor.
He served as public affairs manager at Playboy magazine in the 1960s and as contributing sports editor in the 1970s and 80s writing football forecasts in Playboy's Pigskin section.
He also wrote for the Nashville! magazine.
In 1957 he married Helen Davis (Slaasted) Mount.
He later was married to Nancy Smith, a former professional golfer, and is the father of actor Anson Mount (Anson Adams Mount IV), his older brother (Anson Adams Mount III) and his two sisters.
Anson was scheduled to graduate from the University of the South West of Sewanee in 1949. He had completed all of his course work, had the necessary semester hours to graduate, but had failed to attain the required number of daily and Sunday chapel attendances which were necessary to graduate. The University of the South is an Episcopal School, and that was a requirement. Anson Mount was a free spirit as an individual, stubborn in his manner, and his own man in every way. He didn’t feel it was right to be forced to attend chapel since he was not an Episcopalian, so he didn’t; and he was not going to compromise his personal convictions to get a college degree even though it represented 4 years out of his life.
Mount served in the US Navy and Air Force.
Anson had left White Bluff, TN, and then headed to the big city of Chicago to seek his fortune.
In Chicago, Anson landed a job at a newspaper and worked his way up in short time doing rewriting.
While there he met and befriended Hugh Hefner. Hefner was soon to start a new concept in a magazine whose time had come in the new sexual revolution, Playboy Magazine. Hefner founded the magazine and persuaded Anson Mount to come with him. Mount was instrumental in the very successful launching of the magazine and before he retired had performed just about every job on the staff. But the position that he liked the best and stayed at the longest was that of sports editor which included the role of forecasting the rank of the college football teams a year in advance. This is what he became famous for and excelled at. He became one of the top football forecasters in the nation.
After his retirement from Playboy Magazine he moved back home to White Bluff, TN.
Anson Mount died of kidney failure (aged 60) after being hit by a stroke 3 weeks earlier.
He resided in White Bluff, Tennessee.
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Father of : Anson Mount (Actor)
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Submitted by : Lo55o (13476)
on : 14/05/2025
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Last updated on: 14/05/2025