Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Joan Kaufman Biddle Wintersteen Polk, 32: Cowboy Frank F. Polk, 32; for the second time in less than 15 weeks; in Carson City, Nev. She married him Jan. 31, divorced him April 11, remarried him April 12. First of her three husbands was Playboy George Drexel Biddie of the Philadelphia Biddies...
Dick (Alan Marshall) is what Janie has been waiting for: tall, dark, handsome and a millionaire. This time she needs no urging. Dreaming of their forthcoming marriage, she visions it crowding Adolf Hitler off the front pages. Gloats her playboy fiancé: "And to think I might have married [Glamor Girl] Brenda Whitney Jr., Columbus...
When Shirer went to Berlin most people outside Germany knew (the liberal, refugee and Communist press had told them so) that the Nazis were crazy and would soon be turned out by a popular uprising. Göring was an overblown playboy who liked to wrestle with lion cubs and dress up like Lohengrin. Hitler was a mad man and a paper hanger to boot...
With the explanation: "It entertains me. . . . That is not enough. . . . People must tell me," Playboy William Saroyan, last year's Pulitzer Prizewinner, advertised in the newspapers for 750 people "who have never seen a Broadway play" to view his The Beautiful People, now in rehearsal, on the cuff. By noon a houseful of beautiful non-paying customers had applied for tickets...
...This time, in a tight shingle bob, she is back with a bang as Sandra Kovac, a temperamental concert pianist* with a touch of siren. The overtones of her villainous role begin to sound, sometimes a little nasally, from the time she snatches Maggie's (Bette Davis) rollicking, playboy sweetheart, Pete (George Brent), and marries him in an alcoholic spree. When it is discovered that they have to do it again because Sandra got her divorce decree dates mixed, Maggie snatches Pete back, this time salting him legally away...