Word: playboyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago gave its official nod of recognition to the state of Viet Nam, which the French had sponsored in Indo-China under former Emperor and reformed playboy Bao Dai. Last week ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Russell S. Berkey, steamed through the South China Sea in a show of support for Bao Dai. Two destroyers, the U.S.S. Stickell and the U.S.S. Anderson, tied up at the capital of Saigon while Admiral Berkey paid a courtesy call on Bao Dai (see cut). The U.S. aircraft carrier Boxer sent her planes over Saigon...
Glen H. Taylor, 45, Democrat from Idaho, the banjo-twanging playboy of the Senate. An easy mark for far-left propaganda, he ran as Henry Wallace's vice presidential candidate on the 1948 Progressive Party ticket, has since tried to be a good boy to get Democratic help in his re-election campaign. His major achievement while in office: a "crosscountry peace crusade" on horseback which covered only 275 miles by horse and the rest...
...growing cities, by far the most untrammeled is Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari. At 33, Baby has already built an industrial empire worth some $25 million. In his spare time he has enjoyed life with a free-spending gusto that has won him the undisputed title of Brazil's champion playboy...
Based on a novel by Marcia Davenport, the story details a romantic free-for-all between six or seven sketchy characters, no two of whom love each other with enough decisiveness to settle down. The chief conflict centers in a mellowing playboy (Mason) who is torn between...
...this lackadaisical tour of the glamour belt, everyone-headwaiters, kept women, slighted wife, fashion model, tortured playboy-is so quiet, orderly and introspective that high life doesn't appear to be much fun. The movie is geared so closely to a novel's pace and development that it often gives the impression of pages turning...