Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proceeds to enjoy it. And yet, whether her sophistication is educated naivete, or her childlike candor utter sophistication (one is never quite sure which), she is so fresh, pure and enchanting as to completely disarm Holden, Niven and her audience. Niven, the rake redeemed, tells her that every playboy has an innate respect for innocence. Miss McNamara is acutely conscious of the irony and humor of this transformation, and participates with gusto in the vindication of morality over vice...
...Texas Playboy Sheppard ("Abdullah") King, "tired of playing cat and mouse" with his Egyptian belly-dancing wife, Samia Gamal, announced that he was throwing her over for another torso-tosser named Nejla Ates, a 21-year-old Turk. After sparking Nejla between the acts in a Manhattan nightspot, Shep brayed happily: "She has everything-plus castanets." They would marry as soon as he could divorce Samia, who, he predicted, would "flip her lid" at the news. In far off Cairo, Samia got the news but played it cool: "He may want to know that I had a very disdainful smile...
Married. Lana Turner, 33, cinemactress (The Merry Widow); and Lex Barker, 34, Hollywood's tenth Tarzan of the Apes; he for the third time, she for the fifth (her previous marriages to Millionaire Playboy Bob Topping. Businessman Steven Crane-two marriages-Bandleader Artie Shaw, all ended in divorce); in Turin, Italy...
...pocketed the contents: 18 pence (21?). But he got caught redhanded. In court last week. Lord Glenorchy was fined ?5 ($14) for his misdeed. Afterwards, reporters found him in his rooms wearing his regimental tie, as he boiled two eggs for tea. "I'm not a playboy," said Lord Glenorchy. "Having a title is not always an asset. Sometimes it is an embarrassment...
...bettors crowding around the Capri Club dice table was a tall, dark-haired man named Donald Loughnane, who was in the midst of a three-month tour of the illegal gambling joints and after-hours drinking places in and around Omaha, Neb. But Loughnane was no playboy. He was a reporter-announcer for Omaha's station KOWH, and his method of reporting seemed straight out of Dick Tracy: hidden in his wristwatch was a tiny, German-made microphone, from which a wire led up Reporter Loughnane's sleeve to a recorder strapped to his shoulder...