Playboy seeks women of WorldCom, Andersen

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">CHICAGO: Playing the bare market, <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Playboy</span> magazine on Monday offered female employees of threatened corporate giants WorldCom and Andersen the same chance to pose nude as it did those of fallen energy trader Enron.<br />“As soon as our (August) ‘Women of Enron’ issue hit the newsstands, we started getting calls from female employees at both WorldCom and Arthur Andersen,� said Gary Cole, <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Playboy</span> magazine’s photography director.<br />Cole said the callers had “read� the Enron article “and immediately began expressing their desire to pose for <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Playboy</span> as well.�<br />The magazine, owned by the Chicago-based adult media conglomerate <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Playboy</span> Enterprises, instructed hopefuls from embattled telecommunications leader WorldCom Inc.and the accounting firm Andersen to send in recent photos of themselves in a two-piece swimsuit and a head-and-shoulders shot — along with proof of employment. </div> </div>