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...second son of a one-armed Scottish engineer. Brought up mainly on the Continent, his only stint in England (at Eton, of course) was brief and unhappy. At age 18, James joined a British espionage unit, exposing first a sweaty Rumanian card cheat at the baccarat tables of Monte Carlo. After that, the jobs got more difficult. In 1940, for example, he killed a Japanese code breaker in New York by shooting him through a hole made earlier hi a thick window by his part ner's bullet...
...Master Restaurateur Henri Soule, Le Pavilion immediately established itself as the very best of a small but choice selection of places in which it was as gratifying to be seen as it was to be served the splendid fare. No detail was unimportant to Soule. He used only Baccarat crystal, for instance, and seated guests as carefully as he selected the choice ingredients for their meals, diplomatically segregating society figures from businessmen...
...Hory had fled Ibiza and the invading newsmen for a quieter locale, so Beardwood began calling mutual acquaintances through out Europe. An hour later, he learned that the artist was staying at the home of friends in London. A call there disclosed that De Hory was out playing baccarat. Reached the next morning, he agreed to do the cover. Because it was Sunday, art-supply shops were closed, and he could not begin until the next...
...permanent structures of synthetic fabric, with cement bases and wooden partitions; they were built to withstand fire, rot, and winds of up to 70 m.p.h. Decorated by Jansen of Paris, the firm that helped Jacqueline Kennedy redo the White House, the tents were completely air-conditioned and furnished with Baccarat crystal, Ceralene Limoges china and Porthault linens...
Respectability. At almost any hour of the day there is steady action at the blackjack, baccarat, roulette and craps tables, many of them run by female dealers or croupiers. The players are affluent businessmen from Kuala Lumpur and nearby Singapore, accompanied by wives or mistresses in silk pantsuits. Collectively, they wager an estimated $100,000 every 24 hours. On a visit last month, the Sultan of Selangor put a royal stamp of respectability on the new venture by winning $133 at roulette...