Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayrink Veiga, 47, owner of Rio's radio station Mayrink Veiga, proprietor of the Casa Mayrink Veiga (machines, munitions) on Rio's Rua Mayrink Veiga, and sometime husband of the much-married Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican dictator. Said Suzy: "He's no playboy, but older-just what I need...
...sprightly piece on We Live in the Slums. She joined the Trib as a feature writer in 1944. But not till two years ago did she get her first chance on a breaking news story when the Trib sent her to Havana to cover the Satira yacht-murder of Playboy John Lester Mee (TIME, May 5,1947). She scooped a horde of male reporters by getting aboard the police-impounded yacht and scampering off with Mee's diary. Last March she got Septuagenarian Vic Shaw to tell the intimate story of her life as one of Chicago...
...sleep?"), invests in mink ("She got it by going 'brrrr' in front of Bergdorf's"). But what may be his final fling finds him corralled at last by a barbed-wire surtax: while his stern better half sits guard near by, the fat, fading Park Avenue playboy casts a hungry eye toward a torch singer's double exposure-on television...
...them. It seems the late Percy Haughton was the local originator of post-game goal post demolition, a pastime which was to increase in popularity later on. Haughton was coaching at Cornell at the time and came down to watch a Harvard-Yale game. "He always was a playboy," recalls Enright...
...much to boast of besides its millions. In the past decade, it had doubled in size (to 5,211 students), and as enrollments swelled, standards had been raised to keep out all but top-ranking applicants. World War II finally eliminated the flashy roadster; the veteran drove out the playboy...