Robert Lamont Green; Former Fashion Editor of Playboy

Robert Lamont Green, 79, fashion editor of Playboy in the 1960s and ‘70s, author and CBS network programmer. “I was a teacher of psychology and never intended to become involved in fashion,” he once said. Green also was an Army colonel. In a 1970 interview, discussing changes in men in modern society, he said, “The most inhibited man in the world, in the privacy of his bathroom, has looked at himself in the mirror during a moment of narcissistic admiration and said, ‘Sic ‘em, tiger.’ ” He is survived by a sister, Louise Barth, and his friend, David Taylor. On July 17 in Los Angeles of liver cancer.