Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hayes. He was the superbuilder who once put up a house in 34 minutes, a bachelor who made millions, the fiance who gave Zsa Zsa Gabor a 45-carat diamond (which she uncharacteristically returned when their two-month engagement ended), the flamboyant party giver who once was the premier playboy of the Western whirl...
...Chicago's Playboy Club, where businessmen from all parts of the U.S., including the Deep South, wallow in their shoulder-padded expense accounts, a neatly dressed young comedian talks about the race problem. "Segregation is not all bad," he says. "Have you ever heard of a wreck where the people on the back of the bus got hurt?" And, on sit-ins: "I sat at a lunch counter for nine months," he discloses. "When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted." The audience always laughs and usually applauds the performer, who is just getting started...
Gregory's first two weeks at the Playboy were so successful that he has been held over for another three. With dates lined up at San Francisco's hungry i, Cincinnati's Surf Club, and Freddie's in Minneapolis, he has also caught the interest of New York's Blue Angel...
...members and guests at Roberts Show Club, a big South Side club. Running through his routines for 2,500 people, he so impressed the owner that he was soon booked there at $125 a week. Other bookings followed in Akron and Milwaukee, led him back to Chicago and the Playboy (still low on the pay scale as comedians go, he is working...
...question was whom to choose to lose to Rockefeller in 1962. (The most hopeful Democrats doubt that Rocky's lead can be cut below 250,000.) Front-running candidate was Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.-if he could ever live down his reputation as 1) a Stork Club playboy, 2) a lackluster candidate who lost by 173,000 votes when he ran for state attorney general in 1954, and 3) a lawyer who once accepted a fee from Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo...