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...come to Santa Barbara and get KIST? (Owned by Harry Butcher, former aide to General Dwight D. Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Fate, however, had not abandoned Barbara. All this time, as it turned out last week, it had been grooming a fifth husband for her-a dark, politely feral Latin named Porfirio Rubirosa. At the time Barbara began reducing, of course, she had never heard of Rubi. He was not yet known to the tabloids as the "Big Dame Hunter," but was just the son of an impoverished Dominican Republic general, a personable lad who wasted energy boxing and playing soccer. Rubi had been brought up in Paris before daddy lost his dinero, wanted to get back to Maxim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL NOTES: So Tired | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Last year, after two other members of the international set had accused him of seducing their wives, 44-year-old Rubi was at the very zenith of his career. During July, in Deauville, he met Barbara. By now, of course, she had heard of him and his accomplishments. He, of course, had heard of her and her enormous for tune. "He told me," she explained, "that he loved me. But he doesn't remember. He never asked me to marry him then. He just told me he loved me, but I didn't believe him. I have loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL NOTES: So Tired | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...time, Rubi was busy. He was accompanying Hungarian Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor around Europe, like a bumblebee buzzing about a truckload of sugar. He still seemed disturbed, as a matter of fact, when he came to the U.S. last month. He visited New York to renew his acquaintance with Barbara, but then headed west to see Zsa Zsa again. Last week he was back in New York, and as he arrived, Dominican officials in Ciudad Trujillo announced that he was going to marry Barbara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL NOTES: So Tired | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...Married. Barbara Hutton, 41, five & dime heiress; and Porfirio Rubirosa. 44, Dominican playboy-diplomat; she for the fifth time, he for the fourth; in Manhattan (see INTERNATIONAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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