Word: playboyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years ago, things began to happen in the lives of both. By persuading Arkansans to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and lure in new industry, Rockefeller and the industrial commission he heads are working an economic revolution in the Razorback State. In the doing, the one-time playboy has found a cause-and a home. See BUSINESS, Arkansas Catalyst...
...result of a domestic tangle with as many facets as Mrs. Rovensky's life, her estate is being contested by Peter Bennett Plant, 27, the son of Cinemactress Constance Bennett. Miss Bennett claims that her son was born before divorce proceedings were completed against her husband, the late Playboy Philip M. Plant, who was Mrs. Rovensky's son by her first marriage and the adopted son of her second husband, Railroad and Shipping Financier Morton F. Plant. But because Miss Bennett said nothing about the boy until after the divorce proceedings were final, for years claimed that...
...hard department store Tycoon Marshall Field I, once said: "If I cannot make myself worthy of three square meals a day I don't deserve them." Rich Boy Field won a captaincy and a Silver Star in World War I, for a few years half-heartedly played the playboy, gradually began to spend more and more of his time giving his money away (among recipients of the Field fortune: Chicago's Hull House and Museum of Natural History, the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society...
Married. Porfirio Rubirosa, aging (47) Dominican playboy; and bosomy, 20-year-old French Actress Odile Rodin; he for the fifth time (wives one to four: Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican dictator, French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux, Moneybags Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton), she for the first; in Sonchamp, France...
...next four years I would like for our country a President who is not a playboy, majoring in the game of golf and minoring in the affairs of state...