Word: playboyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Actress Ritter to make it palatable. Bravely insouciant, cracking wise until she finally cracks the whip, she dotes too much on her son to expose his shame, goes about instead captivating his bride and his boss (Larry Keating) and foiling the mean schemes of the boss's playboy son (James Lorimer). At times, the story pushes her role uncomfortably close to Stella Dallas; even then, she indicates that, properly used, she has a talent for pathos as well as comedy...
...Playboy Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr., 24, divorced last month by Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, got some more headlines with a one-round bout in the early morning calm of a Hollywood bar. An Air Force lieutenant with a brunette date asked Hilton to tone down his language. Instead, the lieutenant got a sock on the nose and some advice: "Bums like you ought to be in Korea." The Air Force counterattacked and Hilton got a lump behind...
...first novel, This Side of Paradise, he became a legend, the symbol and embodiment of all the gaudy and juvenile excesses lumped under that handy misnomer, the Jazz Age. After Fitzgerald's death in Hollywood in 1940, the legend persisted, but with an important addition: the charming playboy was mourned as a great writer who had tragically dissipated his talent. To some intellectuals, the Fitzgerald story seemed the perfect prop to bolster a shaky thesis: that the U.S. is culturally too anemic to nourish its good writers. By implication, Fitzgerald's dipsomaniacal botch of his life derived from...
Since he won the heavyweight championship in 1949, Ezzard Charles has knocked out five of the six challengers for his title without convincing fight fans that he is a worthy successor to Joe Louis. In Madison Square Garden last week, against reformed Playboy Lee Oma, 34, Charles tried again...
Died. Ronald True, 59, British playboy-killer, whose reprieve from the gallows in 1922 was a public and Parliament "scandal" that almost unseated David Lloyd George's coalition government; of a coronary thrombosis; in Broadmoor, England. Wealthy Psychopath True strangled and bludgeoned a prostitute to death, but was finally declared insane and sent to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. There, under the rule that patients may furnish their cells as they please, he lived for 28 years with Persian rugs, oak bookshelves, his own valet...