Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greater than the change in the Post itself since 1933, when Eugene Meyer, longtime banker, Republican and holder of top Government jobs (RFC, War Finance Corp. and Federal Reserve Board) under every U.S. President from Wilson to Truman, bought the down-at-heel sheet from the late oil-rich playboy Ned McLean.* Meyer paid only $825,000 for a property valued five years earlier at more than...
Reported TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs: "Bao Dai has great intelligence and charm and the pneumatic resilience of a heavy-duty tire. Some critics seem to assume that all would be well if only Bao Dai looked less like an amiable playboy and made more earnest speeches to rouse the people against Communism. But if Bao Dai were Peter the Hermit himself, I doubt that he could launch such a crusade. The key issue is a matter of principle, not of personality. To any Vietnamese who thinks about anything beyond his paddy field, national independence is the one dominant thought...
...words and a wit that cut everything to ribbons, in a prose so clear, fast and pure that it was like a charmer's music to the snake, Shaw hypnotized England. People became Socialists without knowing it even while they were denouncing Shaw as a mountebank and a playboy. Trotsky lamented that Shaw was a good man fallen among Fabians. But Shaw knew his Englishman and loved him, as the stinging fly loves the thick hide it farsightedly chooses as a safe home for its eggs...
...days, .the Aga Khan had been sitting in the lobby keeping an eye on the door, waiting to greet Farouk. For two days, aging Sacha Guitry, 65, playwright-playboy, in green tam-o'-shanter and Scottish plaid mantle, had been sitting on the opposite side of the lobby, ready with a sophisticated sneer. At last, the King appeared. The Aga Khan greeted him; Guitry sneered. The King smiled vaguely. While he dined hugely (poisson à la crème, veau à la crème, champignons à la crème, framboises à la crème), a phalanx...
This time Esther flits flirtatiously between a Sun Valley bandleader (Van Johnson), whom she really loves, and a millionaire playboy (John Lund). Johnson is made to work overtime as a singer and dancer, and there are specialty numbers by Lena Horne, Eleanor Powell and Connie Haines, plus an unbilled appearance by Red Skelton. By the time the last monumentally tasteless water pageant has ebbed away, it is hard to tell Sun Valley from the same...