Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost seven years after he was booted off Egypt's throne, ex-King Farouk, a puffy and myopic 39, moved a step farther from ever returning to Cairo in royal style. By special decree of Monaco's sympathetic Prince Rainier III, stateless Playboy Farouk, now a Monte Carlo sport, became a Monacan citizen...
...cure: student apathy. Whether this is good or bad seen in light of the Big Scheme of things, frankly, I don't know. The guy at the Spa who sold me my issue of Gadfly said that he had sold more copies of it than he had of Playboy. But I'm not worried. Anyway, I can always sublimate my desires and adjust...
...control systems and devices for planes and missiles. Although he quit school in the eighth grade, Lear can sketch a complete instrument system for a single-engined plane or a jet transport on a nightclub napkin. In 1950, despite his well-earned reputation as a stay-up-all-night playboy, he won the Collier Trophy for distinguished service to aviation as a designer-manufacturer. In 1956 he achieved a different kind of notoriety by flying his Cessna 310 to Moscow on an impromptu tourist trip (TIME, July 9, 1956), stirred up a storm in Washington, which feared, wrongly, that...
...Pleasure of His Company. Overage Playboy Cyril Ritchard returns to the family hearth just in time to throw his daughter's wooden fiancé on the fire...
Divorced. Hugh Marston Hefner, 33, publisher of Playboy magazine; by Mildred Hefner, 33, who charged desertion; after ten years of marriage, two children; in Chicago...