Word: playboyish
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...obsessed by the Christianity that his intelligence scoffed at and rejected. The cast gargles "Marlowe's mighty line" like polysyllabic mouthwash, except for James Ray's Mephistophilis, who, to give him his due, is devilishly good. By contrast, Lou Antonio in the title role is fumbling and playboyish. It is rather too bad that Faustus' pact with Satan should overlook mastery of the part...
Married. James Allan Mollison, 44, playboyish British airman, first man to fly the North Atlantic solo from east to west (1932); and Mary Kamphuis, 33, tall blonde director of his cocoa-butter firm; he for the third time (his first wife, Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison, was killed in a plane crash in 1941, three years after their divorce), she for the second; in Maidenhead, England...
...England's rain-soaked Royal St. George's links last week, two men slashed through the finals of the British Amateur golf championship. Because of the rain and high winds, neither Britain's Charlie Stowe, a $28 a week mechanic, nor Toledo's playboyish Frank ("Muscles") Stranahan was staying abreast of par. But they stayed even with each other, with 795 on the first round. Then Stowe, completely unstarched, bowed to Stranahan 5-&-4. ¶ | At St. Louis, in the $30,000 Professional Golfers Association championship, cool Ben Hogan systematically went about chopping Mike Turnesa...
Divorced. By Sonja Henie Topping, 35, tentime world-champion figure skater*: Daniel Reid Topping, 35, playboyish part-owner of baseball's New York Yankees, owner of professional football's New York Football Yankees; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...
Last week La Bamba was heading north. Bandleader Hoagland broadcast the melody nightly to the U.S. Mexico's playboyish presidential candidate, Miguel Aleman, a native Veracruzano, chose La Bamba for his campaign song, had it played by the faithful as often as the Democrats used to play Happy Days Are Here Again. In Manhattan's Stork Club, publicity-smart Dancemaster Arthur Murray last week gave U.S. dancers a first look at his version of the Veracruz dance...