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Word: playboys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's noisiest lovebirds, Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor, whose California divorce from Cinemactor George Sanders will become final next April, and Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, who will be divorced by Heiress Barbara Hutton in Paris any month now, flew separately from the U.S. to Paris and immediately began a well-publicized twittering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 19, 1954 | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

Miss Holliday and her two marquee running mates attempt to make up for what the plot lacks in coherence and pace. Playing a playboy with a turn for ear kissing, Peter Lawford is his usual suave self. Jack Lemmon breaks into celluloid as Gladys' camera happy boyfriend. The latter, star of the 1946 Pudding show, seems to have picked up a new habit of dress since leaving Harvard, but his acting ability is only hampered by some of the script's insipidly sentimental lines...

Author: By Byron R. Wein, | Title: It Should Happen to You | 3/31/1954 | See Source »

After 73 days of marriage but little bliss, Five & Dime Store Heiress Barbara Hutton and Dominican Playboy-Diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa "mutually decided that it is wisest for us to separate." The honeymoon had been a mishmash of thrills (Rubi finished second in the Sebring twelve-hour sports-car endurance race), spills (Babs broke an ankle in her Manhattan bathroom), and finally chills (Babs left Rubirosa in their Palm Beach mansion last week and moved in with her aunt). For all of Porfirio's junior standing (he has racked up four marriages to Barbara's five), the round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...starters, the Lancias got off fast. Three of them, driven by three of the greatest names in racing-Italy's Alberto Ascari, Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio and Italy's Pierro Taruffi-were leading 1-2-3 after two hours. The fourth Lancia, driven by Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, was well back in the pack. The Cunningham Special, driven by Briggs himself, was fifth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Twelve-Hour Test | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...state to the other, the population of Florida has grown faster in the last three years (up 30% to 3,600,000) than that of any other eastern state. Since the war. non-farm employment has soared 51% to 837,500. In short, Florida, long the playboy of the states, is fast growing into economic maturity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Playboy Grows Up | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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