Word: rubies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuevas and Choreographer Serge Li far) fought a duel with ostrich feathers to the music of Claire de Lune. Minerva the black panther (Callas) appeared in a red wig to music from Weber's Der Freischutz and devoured a chesty white dove (Tebaldi). Casarosa the old sheepdog (Rubi Rubirosa) pounced on two young things to Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture, fainted dead away while Ringmaster Max explained: "Casarosa isn't as young as he thinks he is.'' In a mad finale, the "God of the Press" arrived in a thunderclap to terrify...
...advice of an old customer, sporty Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, Manhattan's flossy Dunhill Tailored Clothes, Inc. phoned Rubi's high-salaried ($600,000 a year) nightclubbing buddy, Lieut. General Rafael Trujillo Jr., who agreed that his wardrobe needed a little touching up, ordered himself: 14 single-breasted herringbone and plaid suits ($285 each); four Saxony wool sports coats ($196 each); 10 sports shirts ($20 to $30 apiece); 24 dress shirts ($33 each); 50 neckties ($7.50 each); four pairs of English worsted flannel slacks ($88 each...
...West Palm Beach, Fla., aging (49) Glamour Boy Porfirio Rubirosa, a sometime auto racer, was caught by police with his Ferrari down, charged with speeding, making a wrong turn and driving with an ear-ruffling muffler, haled to headquarters, where he paid a $25 fine. Huffed Rubi: "I was only trying to reach the bank in a hurry...
Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa moseyed into Bogotá, Colombia to make preparations for a genuine treasure hunt. Bracing himself for his safari's plunge into the Choco wilds on Colombia's Pacific Coast, Rubi, out to make the jungle give up some platinum and gold, first tested his luck at a race track, won a cool 9,600 pesos on a 100-to-1 shot. He also took his ease in Bogotá's elegantly stuffy Jockey Club, where he complained about the absence of vodka (he thirsted in vain for a Bloody Mary). Colombia...
...announced the disengagement of her daughter, heartbreaking Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor, from heartbreaking Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, freshly disengaged from his fourth wife, Five and Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton. In tragic tones, Mama Gabor explained: "In Paris now they are having their last farewell. She can't marry Rubi, the darling boy, because he's so jealous." Then Mama grew more plausible: "Zsa Zsa will be a very big shot in Hollywood and in television. She would have to give that up to marry Rubi." Earlier in the week, Zsa Zsa (exwife of Turkish Bureaucrat Burhan Beige. Hotelman...