Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similarities between Playboy and its "imitators" are superficial and the qualitative differences tremendous. For Playboy, sex is but one part of a sophisticated totality...
Editor-Publisher Playboy Chicago...
Sheiks & Brothers. The crisis came when Army Chief Abu Nuwar, the playboy general and his onetime boon companion, told Hussein that if he did not appoint Abdel Halim Nimr as Premier, the army would force him to. Hussein acted. On signal, his men spread word in Zerka that Communists headed by Abu Nuwar were about to seize the royal palace and overthrow the King. The Moslem Brotherhood took charge of the streets; the Bedouin garrison began attacking officers and an infantry unit known to support Abu Nuwar. They fought first with stones and rifle butts, later with bullets. Twelve...
...newsstands this month is arrayed the biggest, bawdiest, bestselling collection of stag magazines in publishing history. Just as Confidential's peep-and-tell formula sent a horde of imitators yipping after pay dirt, the sex-fueled three-year flight of Playboy ("Entertainment for Men") has shaken out a pack of wolf-whistling periodicals. In all, there are more than 40 playkids on the market, and they are fast outstripping the scandal sheets. The most successful of the upstarts are monthlies, with such names as Caper, Nugget, Rogue, Escapade and Cabaret. Like Playboy ( TIME, Sept. 24), they trade...
General Abu Nuwar, a shifty-eyed playboy with little command experience, is a crony of Syria's pro-Soviet strongman, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj. They had met when they were fellow military attachés in Paris, now talked daily by telephone. Against this impressive lineup, the young King could count only on loyal forces inside the army and the support of Bedouin chiefs...