Word: rubirosas
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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...
...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...
Said the Dominican Foreign Office's announcement: "Complaints received in connection with the personal conduct of Señor Porfirio Rubirosa have led to the cancellation of his appointment." Since his divorce from Doris in 1948, Rubi has become, in the words of his friend and chronicler, Hearst Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker, the "most famous foreign corespondent of the year." Tobacco Heir Richard Reynolds Jr. accused Rubi of "indiscretions" with Mrs. Marianne O'Brien Reynolds (who denied she was "ever in a hotel room" with Rubi, and got a hefty settlement). Socialite Golfer Robert Sweeny, suing...