Word: rubirosas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lancias got off fast. Three of them, driven by three of the greatest names in racing-Italy's Alberto Ascari, Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio and Italy's Pierro Taruffi-were leading 1-2-3 after two hours. The fourth Lancia, driven by Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, was well back in the pack. The Cunningham Special, driven by Briggs himself, was fifth...
...agonizing 1½ miles to the pits. But it was no use; the Lancia never got started. Cunningham's Osca, brakes and clutch almost gone, held on to take first. It had covered 884 miles in twelve hours, at an average speed of 73.6 m.p.h. Porfirio Rubirosa's Lancia, its gearbox all but wrecked, finished second. Said Winning Driver Bill Lloyd: "Nothing surprises me in an endurance race...
...Manhattan hotel suite where she began a honeymoon with her fifth husband, Dominican Diplomat-Playboy Porfirio ("Rubi") Rubirosa, five & dime Heiress Barbara Mutton tumbled and broke her left ankle. At her side, bearing up nobly, Rubi was consoled a bit on hearing that the Dominican Republic had reinstalled him at his Paris diplomatic post, which had been yanked out from under him last month. To cheer Porfirio further, the Custom Tailors Guild of America announced that he had beaten out President Eisenhower in a poll of its members to choose America's best-dressed man. Said a Guild official...
Fate, however, had not abandoned Barbara. All this time, as it turned out last week, it had been grooming a fifth husband for her-a dark, politely feral Latin named Porfirio Rubirosa. At the time Barbara began reducing, of course, she had never heard of Rubi. He was not yet known to the tabloids as the "Big Dame Hunter," but was just the son of an impoverished Dominican Republic general, a personable lad who wasted energy boxing and playing soccer. Rubi had been brought up in Paris before daddy lost his dinero, wanted to get back to Maxim...
Married. Barbara Hutton, 41, five & dime heiress; and Porfirio Rubirosa. 44, Dominican playboy-diplomat; she for the fifth time, he for the fourth; in Manhattan (see INTERNATIONAL...