Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorce Revealed. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 66, Philadelphia playboy and World War I draft dodger, who fled to Germany in 1920, came home in 1939 and served almost five years in Army prisons during World War II; by German-born Berta Franck Bergdoll, 52; after 34 years of marriage, eight children (including Son Alfred, a Korean War draft dodger); in Charles City, Va., last April...
Next day Hussein told a press conference that "responsible authorities in the United Arab Republic, mainly in Syria," knew in advance of the plot to assassinate Majali. As long ago as last spring, the Jordanian government accused young Playboy General Ali Abu Nuwar, 38, Hussein's onetime buddy as army chief of staff, of planning Majali's assassination from his exile in Nasser's Damascus...
...that lavish display and heavy-handed entertaining really pay off in sales. Purchasing agents for most U.S. firms are among the biggest targets of expense-account big spenders; yet Randall finds that most are notably serious and responsible executives who are not only likely to be unimpressed by the playboy approach but are often offended by it. The salesman forgets that "in the long run, the product must sell itself," and that it is bad tactics to yield to "the temptation of selling himself instead of his merchandise." Moreover, says Randall, expense-account lushes "are notoriously poor judges of people...
When golf's self-styled experts made early book on the P.G.A. Championships at Akron, Ohio last week, the man most everyone overlooked was Junius Joseph Hebert (pronounced: Eh-bear), 37, brother of 1957 P.G.A. winner Lionel Hebert. A handsome, black-haired playboy, he had a record as a perennial also-ran with only a scattering of victories in his 12-year career...
...Oilman W. (for William) Howard Lee, 51, freshly divorced from his second wife, ex-Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr. Lee had courted Gene while she clerked in a dress shop in Topeka as an outpatient in Kansas' renowned Menninger Clinic, and had convinced her that he is a thoroughly reformed playboy. Said the bride: "Everything looks so beautiful today!" In London's Haymarket Theater, shortly before the curtain rose on Terence Rattigan's hit play Ross, a couple strolled down the aisle to Row G, soon complained to an usherette that another couple had usurped their...