Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Vail Converse, 53, sat in a Manhattan jail. He was there for contempt of court-he had ignored a summons for a debt of $149 he owed a hospital. Onetime playboy Jimmy, onetime horseman and tennist, onetime husband of Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski's aunt, Lady Furness-he was her first of two and she was the second of his five-waited for somebody to get up $100 to bail...
...Williams, curvilinear cinema pinup* sued by Argentine Playboy "Macoco" (Martin de Alzaga Unzue) for $35,000-odd (she took his gifts and then ditched him, he complained), made an interesting retort. She had married him once, and living with him was "too dangerous," she protested. She declared that he "used to beat himself up, scratch his face and bite my leg. There was a pretty bad time all around. He would beat his head against the wall. It was difficult to be married to a man like that." Said Señor Macoco, shocked: "I cannot imagine anything more ridiculous...
Into the two brief acts of the play Synge has packed all the gaiety and excitement and superstitious poetry of the Irish peasant, in the same way that has made his "Playboy" a modern classic. And the Idler cast's performances go completely beyond the amateur level. It is difficult to describe or choose between the interpretations of Seabury G. Quinn '47 as the venial priest, Miss Nora Millard as the tinker's sharp-witted bride-to-be, Miss Elaine Limpert as his philosophical, besotted mother, and Charles Raphael as the tinker himself...
...snickered at little (5 ft. 3 in.) Vittorio Emanuele, cursed him for abetting Mussolini's war. They liked towering (6 ft.) Queen Elena well enough; but they could never quite forget that she was a foreigner from Montenegro (once famed for its brisk export trade in marriageable princesses). Playboy Crown Prince Umberto, though abler than his parents, would probably have to join Europe's swelling ranks of unemployed royalty. His son, the ten-year-old Prince of Naples, was the dynasty's last feeble hope. He was oblivious of such adult troubles, having just got over...
While a five-hour debate raged in Parliament, eight of the Sultans prepared to leave for London to protest in person. A ninth, the fabulous, 72-year-old ex-playboy Sultan of Johore was already there, leading the fight from a swank suite in Grosvenor House. Gone were the days when British officials used to remove him (for his own good) from Singapore nightspots at 10 p.m.; now he was telling the British where to head...