Word: gabor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gabor: My Story Written for Me by Gerold Frank (World; $3.95). From Hungary to satiety, via Conrad Hilton, George Sanders and Porfirio Rubirosa. If this sentence were not the book's last, it would be fair warning: "Who knows, in this life of ours, what is really true and what is enchanting make-believe...
...National Palace, where-whether officially President or not-he has ruled the country for 30 years. He fired his brother Hector, who for the past eight years has been stand-in President. He sent his son Ramfis, the onetime tabloid-headline playmate of Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor, off to Geneva to "advise" the Dominican delegation to a trade conference. He bounced two lesser Trujillos from high government jobs. And he named himself chief Dominican delegate to the United Nations...
Halfway with L.BJ. "This is the convention, and there are those who love it," said Brinkley with wry detachment on opening day, setting the tone for NBC's coverage all the way. Spotting Zsa Zsa Gabor with Louisiana's deLesseps Morrison, he observed that Morrison "has just been defeated for Governor so he's got a lot of spare time now." When Lyndon Johnson accepted the vice-presidential nomination, Brinkley suggested that the slogan "All the way with L.B.J." should now read "Half the way with L.B.J." Cooped up in a loft. by 12-ft. glassed...
...level surrealistic home carved out of a mountainside in Beverly Hills. Trim and handsomely greying at 48, Bachelor Hayes figured in gossip items with Joan Blondell and Barbara Hutton. and made the headlines for lasting two long months as the fiance-of-the-moment of Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor. Hal Hayes also had another, essential side-the money-making side. He is the founder and sole proprietor of what he claims is the world's largest individually owned construction company, which is building about $60 million in housing projects at U.S. military bases...
...Hayes found in 1950 that he was paying $70,000 a year for entertainment, so he set up his own nightclub in a $400-a-month Sunset Strip apartment with a dance floor, a waterfall, and rugs running up the walls. When he became engaged to Zsa Zsa Gabor (whom he made a vice president of his company), he gave her a 45-carat blue-white diamond so heavy that Zsa Zsa, who also knows a thing or two about publicity, could only gesticulate with her right, or free, hand. When the engagement broke up, Zsa Zsa, in unexplained violation...