Word: playboyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the other, while an overbearing French rascal stuffed the royal pockets with gold. The question before the people in South Viet Nam's first free national election was in effect a choice between Premier Ngo Dinh Diem as their head of state or Bao Dai, their absentee playboy sovereign...
Printing presses in South Viet Nam last week were turning out a new kind of balloting card. Separated by a perforated line were two photographs: one of playboy Chief of State Bao Dai, the other of austere Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Next week 3,000,000 Vietnamese will tear the cards down the middle and each will drop into a ballot box the picture of the man he wants to lead South Viet Nam. In this way the people will settle a dispute that has seriously hurt the democratic half of the country so sadly truncated at Geneva...
...lantern-jawed angel of goodwill named Charlie Faust did for the New York Giants what only Satan could accomplish for the Washington Senators in the Broadway musicomedy Damn Yankees. On Chrysler's Climax!, Betty Furness and Franchot Tone went to the trouble of killing off an expendable playboy on the operating table to bring understanding back to a busy doctor and his restless wife. The happiest ending of all was provided by Revlon cosmetics, which gave a 28-year-old U.S. Marine captain a check for $64,000 because he knew what King George VI ate for dinner...
Princely Portrait. As King, Sihanouk enjoyed tootling a saxophone, composing love ballads, keeping race horses and elephants, a troop of dancing girls and a harem of concubines. But he was no mere playboy Oriental monarch. He also helped to win his country's freedom from French colonial rule, led his army in a skirmish against invading Viet Minh Communists and encouraged his diplomats to stand up successfully to Molotov and Chou Enlai at last year's Geneva meeting. Yet he felt powerless really to run his land, to keep it clear of corruption and out of a head...
...fishnet stole and assorted pearls. Anita announced, however, that she wants the exclusive right to pen Tommy's life story (tentative title: The Manville Myth) before she agrees to jettison him in Reno's divorce mill. Then she sadly observed that she would go straight back to Playboy Manville if only he would forget this silly business of her signing away all her inheritance rights as his wife. Unbound by such a nasty waiver, she would be sure of a bonanza when he died-enough shekels to bring fulfillment of her wildest dream, so poignantly expressed by Anita...