Word: playboy
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They laughed when William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman was inaugurated as the 18th President of Liberia back in 1944. He had a reputation as a playboy, and it was freely predicted that within six months he would be impeached or simply resign from office. But "Uncle Shad" has endured. Now in his sixth term, he has been busy the last two weeks celebrating his 25th anniversary as chief executive of Africa's oldest republic. TIME Correspondent James Wilde went to the party, a ten-day long binge of dinners, dances, agricultural exhibitions, parades and fireworks. His report...
Bunny Tale. In the early '60s, some unsigned articles for Esquire and a job with Huntington Hartford's Show magazine launched her freelance career. A Show assignment to use a false name and get herself hired as a Playboy bunny really started her as journalist-celebrity. After a month as a bunny, she wrote an engaging and unflattering journal of the furry-tailed life. "For two years after it, all the jobs I was offered were the same kind of thing," she now complains. "Everybody at a party would say, 'This is Gloria Steinem. She used...
...Fame Game by Rona Jaffe), not to mention high fashion (The Collection by Paul Montana) and publishing itself (The Center of the Action by Jerome Weid-man). Probably in this category, too, belongs Henry Sutton's The Voyeur, which he says is not about Hugh Hefner and the Playboy empire...
KURT VONNEGUT has written five novels (Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine, Mother Night, and The Sirens of Titan); periodic short stories that keep popping up in magazines like Playboy and science fiction anthologies like Tomorrow, the Stars; a book of collected short stories called Welcome to the Monkey-house; and a new novel out this spring called The Slaughterhouse Five, the first two chapters of which were recently printed in Ramparts...
...GUIDE TO THE SWINGING BACHELOR (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A satiric look at the dreamworld of the single male. Joey Bishop is host with Guests Shelley Berman, Noel Harrison, Larry Storch, Dean Jones and 12 Playboy magazine Playmates...