Word: playgirls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playgirl (Universal) is a cautionary tale for small-town girls who come to the big city. The approximate moral: when you let a man set you up in an apartment, make sure he is not a gangster, because, after all, a girl has to be careful of what people...
...from him, she explained, except in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church (she will go to Mexico to try for a church annulment). She spoke warmly about O'Dwyer and professed to be tickled about magazine stories that have pictured him as the hapless pawn of a playgirl: "Every story has a hero and a villain. I am delighted to be the villain in this case, if it'll give him the break he deserves...
...Christians must welcome the just rebuke meted out to us by Gilbert K. Smith in his well-reasoned defense [Sept. 8] of Jelke and his playboy and playgirl friends. How foolish of us to prefer an attitude to sex which is not in keeping with "sound economic activity in this cold, commercial world." My only criticism of his otherwise pleasantly logical argument is that he appears to show signs of some of the narrowness which he so rightly discerns in us. Surely the dope peddler's vocation is just as commercially sound as the pimp's. The teenager...
Married. Patricia ("Honeychile") Wilder Cernadas, 32, Georgia-born playgirl of the International Set, who claimed she once almost shot Egypt's King Farouk, "thinkin' he was a duck"; and Prince Alexander Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst, 33, who fled Poland just before the German invasion in 1939; she for the third time, he for the second; in Greenwich, Conn...
Whistle at the Door. After one Oasis evening. Baby and a brunette playgirl, roaring down a Sāo Paulo road at 70 miles an hour, veered away from an-unmarked excavation, slowed down with brakes screeching, then smacked into a telephone pole. Peering past the sedan's crumpled nose, the girl complained: "The telephone pole is still standing." Without a word Baby backed up, stepped on the gas and demolished both pole and Cadillac...