Word: playboys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...James Bond, kid. I'm the picha-takin man for the real sliks, Playboy's Life, and I wanna take a pikchov...
...words a minute, take dictation at the stopwatch speed of 100 words per, and seemed a cinch for the job. But a girl can't have everything. It came out that leggy, blonde Mary Ellen Terziu, 23, also moonlighted her nights away as a bunny at the Baltimore Playboy Club. Up went the chances of the 200 other applicants for the job, and down went Mary Ellen's. To make her Christmas unforgettable, her Playboss fired her for having "political affiliations." Oh, Tydings of comfort...
Died. Richard Joshua Reynolds, 58, playboy heir to a king-size slice of his father's tobacco empire (Camel, Winston, Salem), who scorned the family trade to become a taxi driver, deck hand, aviator, ship owner, horse breeder and sometime Democratic politician, managing meanwhile to run through $10 million of his $25 million inheritance settling three marriages; of chronic pulmonary emphysema; in Lucerne, Switzerland, 36 hours before his fourth wife gave birth to a daughter...
...three years, Show, a $1-a-copy monthly addressed to the performing arts, has absorbed USA1 (an illustrated monthly newsmagazine) and Show Business Illustrated (a rival put out by Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner), expanded its formula to encompass culture in general, from travel to politics, and in the process grandly lost $8,000,000. Since Show's publisher is A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, the red ink was not too significant. But with circulation at 200,000 and still shy of the break-even point, Hartford last week decided to hand over Show to Playbill, Inc. for a price...
Another variation on the status-through-fantasy theme surrounds himself with the earmarks of quiet fine taste without becoming a playboy. 3 piece suits, excellent cigars, brandy, expensive furniture, well-bound books, and perhaps an original painting or two, allow him to feel he is leading "the Good Life" without ever actually leaving his room...