Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, Bernhard fought ably with the Dutch army underground. The Dutch people took to him, as did their Queen. He became one of Wilhelmina's closest advisers and greatest favorites. Something of the playboy before the war, even taking a cocktail on Sundays, he settled down to a quiet, domestic postwar existence with Juliana at rambling, pleasant Soestdijk Palace. The household has the flavor of Greenwich, Conn. The Lippe-Biesterfelds like bridge, talky dinner parties, go to bed by 11. Each time Juliana expected a child, the nation waited excitedly to hear whether...
...Father Told Me." With patience and understanding of the Nizam's vanity, India might still win its minimum demands without bloodshed. India can afford to wait until the Nizam's playboy son, the Prince of Berar, ascends the throne. The Prince is far less interested in wielding power in Hyderabad than in caring for his 180 polo ponies. And the Prince is no friend of Razvi and his Razakars, who might be less troublesome if not backed by the government. Last week, in a pique, the Prince resigned his nominal title of commander in chief of the Hyderabad...
...society editors all over the world knew the name of Eugene Higgins. After attending Columbia University, where he was a classmate of Nicholas Murray Butler, he became a full-time playboy, with a $50 million carpet fortune to spend. Almost everything he did made news-his winning of the U.S. fencing championship in 1890; the time his 1,520-ton steam yacht was wrecked in the Madeira Islands (he won a medal for saving his guests); his fabulous parties ("sumptuous pleasure campaigns," the papers called them); his romance with Emma Calve, the opera star. "Mr. Higgins," wrote one society editor...
...back.) But there were plenty of other customers. In Kansas City, a grain merchant bought a copy for his mistress, wistfully wrote on the flyleaf: "I hope this will help you to understand me better." In Miami Beach, where no cabana was considered properly furnished without "the report," one playboy bought 50 copies and sent them to all the women he knew...
...West Palm Beach, Fla., Nancy Rheem Talbot filed suit for separation from Playboy Husband Johnny. After a night out with Lana Turner, she charged, he had told her: "Go home to your mother." In Manhattan, Cinemactress Arline Judge, whose fifth husband, Bob Topping, succeeded Talbot as Lana's friend, wasn't holding still for a divorce. "It'll take me a long time to ruin this one," she raged to the New York Post's Earl Wilson, "but. . . I swear on my baby's head, I'll ruin him for what...