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Word: playboy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best friends was blonde Janice Drake, 33, onetime showgirl, Miss New Jersey in 1944, and wife of TV Comic Allen Drake. Like Augie, Jan had a talent for encountering people just before curtain time. She was questioned closely about Anastasia's death, and Nat Nelson, a playboy garment distributor, was found murdered in his bachelor apartment the morning after a date with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Finger Exercise | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...struggle that holds all Spain enthralled as it watches the two: haughty, handsome Luis Dominguin, 33, the sometime international playboy whose cool style can crackle with showmanship, and boyish Antonio Ordoñez, whose classic passes flare with the brilliance that fires aficionados into ecstasy. Each is a millionaire, but each cares more for his craft than cash. And each is fond of holding up a forefinger, smiling faintly and declaring: "Yo, el primero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: iQui | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...blooded sometime Playboy Luis Miguel Dominguin, 33, and boyish Antonio Ordonez, 27, Dominguin's good friend and brother-in-law, met last week in a mano a mano (duel between two bullfighters instead of the usual three) to determine which is Spain's best. In the Valencia arena, Ordonez swiftly dispatched his three bulls, showed the lethal grace that has. won him 42 ears as trophies from 26 fights this year. Making a comeback after a recent three-year retirement, Dominguin (57 ears in 29 fights this year) dispatched his first two bulls with some trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Roly-poly Playboy John Jacob Astor

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 3, 1959 | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...kind of bubble-gum snap to his role, and delivers just about as much substance. Young Eddie (The Music Man) Hodges is fine as the child who plays gin rummy with his father at 4 o'clock in the morning. As the feverish businessman who cannot fathom the playboy's vagaries, Edward G. Robinson has an intonation and gesture to fit every line-and all the best lines are his. To a cab driver who cynically returns a ten-cent tip: "What'sa matter, you don't need a dime? 7 need a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 3, 1959 | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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