Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preposterous dream has materialized in a $400,000 Victorian house on Chicago's North State Street, complete from the half-acre bed to the woo grotto. No wonder its owner says "Life is beautiful." He is Hugh Marston Hefner, 34, editor and publisher of Playboy Magazine, a sort of editorial whee, whose candy castle-aswarm with Playboy's celebrated center-spread Playmates-symbolizes the expansion of his young empire into show business. Scarcely a year in operation, Hefner's members-only Playboy key club has become the largest employer of entertainment talent in Chicago...
...Regicide Oliver Cromwell, seemed hardly a likely captor, yet for four years, the couple sporadically courted. A captain in the Royal Scots Guards, the Duke was a heavy-footed hot-rodder ("100 miles an hour suits me") who had waffled at least four assorted autos, a light-hearted playboy whose pranks had been questioned on the floor of Commons. While the toothy peer muddled and frolicked through Eton and Sandhurst, quiet Kate Worsley diligently attended day school, taught at Lady Eden's fashionable Kensington kindergarten. But then the shy, unspoiled schoolmarm retired to her Yorkshire home, gardened with...
...decided to endorse his career, gave him financial backing to form his own opera company and to rent London's Covent Garden opera house, which Beecham Sr. later bought. There Beecham presented some 60 operas unfamiliar to the British public, but still found himself regarded more as a playboy impresario than as a serious conductor. When Beecham's father died, the estate was tied up in litigation, and Thomas soon found himself so broke that he had to retire from music for three years to straighten out his affairs...
...Message. For the first time, Playboy Johansson was all business in the training ring. He was trying to develop a left hand to complement his crashing right-but there were doubts that his left would ever be very dangerous. Moreover, Johansson still has not corrected the basic mistake of dropping his right hand, which last time left him open to Patterson's left hook. But the way Ingo explains his defeat, he tried to lean back from Patterson's left instead of ducking under it. This time, he says, he will duck...
...play tells,of a successful, school-of-hard-knocks Jewish manufacturer whose older son (Hal March) has turned playboy and whose younger son leaves home for his brother's bachelor apartment and way of life. Come Blow Your Horn alternates-and often combines-wolf calls with phone calls; it offers Pop's indignant sermons, sarcasms and ultimatums, Mom's discombobulated personality and absorption with food. Lou Jacobi can be humanly amusing as Pop, Warren Berlinger cornily amusing as little brother suddenly outdoing big one. But the play's three acts are like having much the same...