Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the Dhoti. For all his playboy manner, however, Suhrawardy is a deliberate contender for power. His opponents call him "a complete opportunist"; Suhrawardy softens that to read "complete politician." The son of a rich Calcutta mill owner, he entered politics soon after his graduation from Oxford, was a sufficiently good administrator to become Chief Minister of Bengal, one of the biggest jobs in British India. With India's independence and its partition into Hindu and Moslem nations. Moslem Suhrawardy, instead of going to Moslem Pakistan, toured Bengal with Mahatma Gandhi and tried...
...more, the television movies would prove it. Nonplused, the racing committee finally passed the buck to the American Power Boat Association, which may take up to 60 days to decide on a winner. By that time, the Gold Cup could be tarnished for fair. Roly-poly Horace Dodge, playboy heir to the Dodge car fortune, claims that he was illegally kept from qualifying for the cup in Dora My Sweetie. He has a court order requiring the race committee to show cause why the Gold Cup should not be called no contest...
...knew education was a privilege, and not just something father paid for. "They had men's heads on men's shoulders," says Acting President Frank Bailey of Ohio's Kenyon College. Adds Harvard's Director of Financial Aid John Monro: "These fellows knocked out the playboy era of American colleges. They set a pace that is still with us-and it is here to stay...
...shine," the job meant a series of obscure challenges. In facing up to them, Rex slowly changed from a fairly backward boy to a rather forward young man. Almost from the start he found himself devastatingly attractive to girls-and they to him. Yet Rex was never a playboy who happened to act. Even in his teens he was an actor who liked to play. Said a fellow actor of those days: "Rex always had a most commanding manner. You felt you didn't want him to leave the company. If he said he was going, you felt...
...even ask to be read. The stupidity of the suggestions on "what is to be done," the embarrassment caused by the deliberate misrepresentations have immeasurably reduced the book's communication to the level (using one of Mr. Raditsa's own examples) of the Harvard Times-Republican, or better, playboy. Mr. Raditsa quit the Advocate in order to produce this magazine; in spite of our alleged indifference to literature we accept his creative insights into the relations of human beings on and off our publication...