Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, 42, current No. 1 Playboy of the Western World, met Ana Maria de Carvalho, 18, during Brazil's carnival in lazy, colonial Salvador, capital of Bahia state. Disguised as an Arabian sheik, he was tossing ice cubes and confetti, brawling in nightclubs, when he spotted eye-filling (Miss Bahia, 1958) Ana Maria right on Salvador's main stem. Baby stopped, whistled, shouted, "Hey, beautiful!" But Ana Maria, blue-blooded daughter of a wealthy Bahian cattle rancher, industrialist and political potentate, sniffed: "Impertinent and presumptuous...
...legal preliminaries to get a tangible remembrance from the estimated $100 million-plus estate of Philanthropist Vincent Astor, portly half brother John Jacob Astor III, ignored in Vincent's will (TIME, Feb. 16), informally entered a surprise argument. Its gist: thrice-married Playboy J.J. needs the money. Turning his coffers inside out just before sailing for England, J.J., doubtless aware that the bulk of Vincent's money is earmarked to "alleviate human misery," complained that he is down to his last...
...Pleasure of His Company. Overage International Playboy Cyril Ritchard returns to the family hearth just in time to throw his daughter's wooden fiance on the fire...
...Pleasure of His Company. Overage International Playboy Cyril Ritchard returns to the family hearth just in time to throw his daughter's wooden fiance on the fire...
Married. Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, aging (77) playboy now confined to a wheelchair, English financier once known as "The J. P. Morgan of the Orient" (before World War II he owned a substantial fraction of metropolitan Shanghai, threw some of the wildest parties in Cathay society), scion of a family whose enormous wealth derived from the China trade (including opium in the old days), prominent figure in English turf circles, cousin of Poet-Novelist Siegfried Sassoon; and Evelyn Barnes, 39, his blonde nurse-companion; both for the first time; in Nassau...