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Fricker now spends his time thinking up exotic German dishes for his Stillman patients. Dumb waiters in the Holyoke Center now carry such delicacies as Rahm schnitzel, Beef Stroganoff, Wlenerschnitzel, vol au vent and falsan aux asperges to hungry patients. Fricker also cooks for Holyoke's tenth floor dining rooms...
...observed that her daughter Caroline detested flashbulbs. The president of the Paris Municipal Council presented her with a tiny wristwatch, was rewarded with a smile. Then there was a quick trip to flower-decked Malmaison, the Empress Josephine's country retreat, and a gourmet lunch (lobster thermidor, mousse aux fraises des bois, and three wines) at La Celle St. Cloud, the long-ago hideaway of Mme. de Pompadour. And capping it all was the gala evening at the Palace of Versailles, with illuminated fountains and gardens, an 18th century ballet in the glittering Louis XV theater, and a banquet...
...York: Baroque, Chambord, Pavilion, "21"; Dallas: La Vieille Varsovie; Los Angeles: Perino's; San Francisco: Fleur de Lys; Chicago: Café Bonaparte, Maison Lafite, Red Carpet; New Orleans: Les Patisseries aux Quatre Saisons...
...Louis XIV was the sun king, Louis XV had all he could do to reign. He was lazy, lecherous and indecisive. History has preserved his notoriety in such personal institutions as the Pare aux Cerfs (the deer park), a town house where, actually, he maintained a private brothel, and, as Author Nicolson puts it, "thereby did much damage to his repute, his constitution, and his power of application." However, one of Louis XV's nightly customs reveals far more about the so-called Age of Reason than his deer park...
...afternoon of his birthday, Rodecker treated his wife to lunch at one of Manhattan's best restaurants, Le Pavilion (Saumon Fumé, $3; Germiny aux Paillettes, $3; Pigeonneau aux Olives. $6; coffee, 70?. Afterward, they strolled the few steps up 57th Street toward the corner of Park Avenue, underneath the windows of the Ritz Tower, where lives, among others,TV Star (What's My Line?) Arlene Francis* with her husband, Producer Martin Gabel, and her 13-year-old son. As the Rodeckers walked by, a maid in the Gabel's eighth-floor apartment began removing a screen...