Word: playboyism
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...observe the A's pennant rush. Throughout, Taubman got a unique view of Finley's long-distance powwows with A's Manager Alvin Dark, and of his frenetic night life and hustling business deals. Phil was even asked to participate by escorting a bevy of Playboy Bunnies, who were distributing to All-Star game reporters Finley's latest discovery-orange baseballs. After jetting back to New York to catch up on much-needed sleep, Taubman looked back on Finley as "the most exhausting and entertaining character I've run into. As his friends...
...Leadon and Felder are almost recluses. An eight-mile-long dirt road separates Felder's rustic, ridgeline house from the Pacific coast highway far below. On tour, Leadon is a loner who prowls music stores to discover new instruments for his $80,000 collection. Frey is a nocturnal playboy; Henley reads Rimbaud. Meisner is a family man, calls his Nebraska home daily to check in with his wife and three children...
...command of COPCON has made Saraiva de Carvalho the fastest rising star in Portugal. Still, he has his detractors. Spínola is reported to have once said that Saraiva de Carvalho "should never have got above sergeant." Many Portuguese regard him as a not-too-bright, womanizing playboy-hence his unflattering sobriquet "O tolo" (the brainless...
Despite his playboy image-reinforced by his jaunty way of peacocking about in an ever-crisp uniform-Saraiva de Carvalho has proved himself to be a tough, if opportunistic leader. Born in 1936 in Lourenço Marques, the capital of Mozambique, he first aspired to a theatrical career-in fact his parents named him for Shakespeare's Othello. Since his family lacked money for acting lessons, he joined the army instead. He served for five years in Angola and for three in Guinea-Bissau under Spínola, who, in a never forgotten slight, excluded the brash young...
...outside the magazine Lownes has not spared Hefner's personal talismans. The black, $5.9 million "Bunny Jet," a specially outfitted DC-9, has been consigned to a broker for sale, and the Playboy Mansion in Chicago virtually closed. Says Lownes of Hefner, who is 49, "His life-style no longer has the promotional value it once did." But Lownes is convinced that the corporation is still potentially a rich moneymaker. "This company is doing a good business," he says. "If we can only stop pissing away the profits...