Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such thing as an unemployed astronomer. It is a choice which the undergraduate in search of a field of concentration must make after weighing both sides carefully--because on the other side of the fence, one thing is certain; 'you cannot major in Astronomy and still be a practical playboy...
...public figure, made a photogenic reappearance (see cut) in happier circumstances. Occasion: a whopping coming-out party for sister Shirley. Scene: Nassau in the Bahamas, where wealthy Sir Harry Oakes, the girls' father, was mysteriously murdered in 1943. Out of the picture: Nancy's estranged husband, Playboy Count Alfred de Marigny (who was charged with the murder but acquitted), last heard from in Canada, where he wrote his amatory memoirs (TIME, April...
...start it was rather picturesque and dashing. (She added an extra dash of the picturesque by screwing up the famed deadpan for photographers.) The groom was a Lithuanian prince* -handsome Igor Troubetzkoy. Trotting about like a jolly uncle who knows how to handle these things was International Playboy Freddie McEvoy, who a lot of people used to think would marry the heiress himself...
...Dublin-born Higher Mathematician Synge call to mind his city's great ghosts (among them, his uncle's-author of The Playboy of the Western World), and admit that Dublin is a writer's town...
Died. Harry Kendall Thaw, 76, multimillionaire turn-of-the-century playboy whose murder of famed Architect Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit in 1906 was the granddaddy of all tabloid sensations; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami Beach. Eccentric girl-chaser Thaw put three bullets in White at a Manhattan roof garden for the alleged seduction, before Thaw had married her, of ex-Floradora Girl Evelyn...