Word: playboyism
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...Broadway revues of the '20s and '30s, where he introduced standards like The Birth of the Blues and It All Depends on You. One of the highest paid stars of the era, and temporary fiancé to "It Girl" Clara Bow, Richman mastered the role of playboy smoothie with his penchant for showgirls, gambling and amateur aviation...
...Emperor of Viet Nam, forced to abdicate after World War II, resurrected by the French in 1947 as puppet Emperor of Viet Nam, went into exile in 1954 to a more lotophagous life on the French Riviera. Now 59, his majesty lives in France's Midi, still enjoys a playboy's existence and occasionally issues political pronouncements that are widely ignored...
...small package was addressed to Singer-Actress Barbara McNair at the Playboy Club in McAfee, N.J., and it had hardly arrived before federal narcotics agents swooped down and arrested her and her husband Rick Manzie for possession of half an ounce of heroin. After their arraignment in Newark, photographers flocked around so persistently that Manzie seized hold of one; then Barbara joined the melee, and it finally took a dozen U.S. marshals to restore peace. Two days later, claiming that her career had been devastated and that many bookings had been canceled, Barbara declared that the whole thing...
Harmless Pastime. It is no accident that Gallery seems to be looking over Playboy's shoulder. Editor James Spurlock, 26, served three years in Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner's shop, and has installed Gallery's staff of 17 in offices opposite Playboy editorial headquarters on Chicago's North Michigan Avenue. Ronald Fenton, 38, a onetime computer franchiser who is founder and chief stockholder of Gallery Enterprises, Inc., says that "we'll work our side of the street and let them work theirs...
...total was Gallery's copying of Playboy in its first issue that Hefner's lawyers started inspecting it for possible copyright infringement, and Bailey reportedly rebuked Spurlock for overdoing the imitation. Gallery's next issue is to be partly redesigned, but Fenton is unworried. "All magazines," he says blandly, "have similarities...