People

By Guy D. Garcia

Most grandmothers would faint at the very idea of finding a granddaughter in the centerfold pages of Playboy magazine. But when Karen Velez, 24, appeared as last December's Playmate of the Month, Doris Newman, 73, felt only pride. After all, it was Granny Newman who had encouraged Velez to bare her all for the magazine's talent scouts when they showed up in Miami two years ago. "If you showed your ankles or wore lipstick in my day," says Mrs. Newman, "you were a tramp. But today nudity doesn't mean much." Still, it can bring a few "goodies," as Velez says, meaning the $100,000 and Toyota MR2 she will get this week for winning the nod as 1985 Playmate of the Year. "I obviously owe a lot to my grandmother," says the dutifully unclad descendant.