Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plotted his own way to the throne. Back in 1916, he was only an ambitious young ras (marshal) named Tafari in the eastern province of Harar when he teamed up with a female cousin in a plot that toppled the playboy Emperor Lij Yasu. Ras Tafari pursued the fugitive Lij Yasu for five years, caught him, threw him in prison and kept him bound in golden chains for 14 years until he died in 1935. Though his cousin became the Empress Zauditu, Ras Tafari gradually emerged as the country's strongman. Upon the Empress' death...
...idea was characteristic of Playboy Beebe's style, but the earnest undertone of it (something Beebe religiously avoids) marks it as the work of Managing Editor Robert L. Richards, 49. Richards didn't expect to lose many readers, even among Nevada's transplanted Southerners. Said he: "Of course, I meant it in a light way. But I really feel that the South has been a pain in the neck for 90 years, and we would be better off without them. And I know a lot of other people around here feel the same...
...Playboys. Browne has many imitators. Playboy Magazine did a story on the Chicago Gaslight about four years ago, got so interested that it opened its own club, intends to have clubs in 50 other cities within the next two years. Sensing the trend, nightclubs in many cities, e.g., the Roaring Twenties in Beverly Hills, are setting one room aside as a key club, stocking it with the shapeliest waitresses...
Married. Woolworth Donahue, 47, big-game hunter, playboy and heir to dime-store fortune; and shapely Judith ("Baby Doll") Church, 26; both for the second time; in the lush playhouse of "Woolie's" Long Island estate...
Give to Receive. The Ismailis are a prosperous minority scattered mainly through Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Naturally industrious, they gave tithes for more than 40 years to Karim's grandfather, the old Aga Khan, and their gifts came back to bless them. A playboy but a shrewd financier, the old Aga Khan invested the Ismailis' money in blue-chip stocks, used the proceeds to finance a network of Ismaili banks, shops and factories. In Ismaili communities, he built hospitals, mosques and schools. He left an estimated $800 million, though the young Aga Khan warns...