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...that mon ey can buy: coral, jade, moonstone. The price tags come high: $475.75 down to $89.75. Each year Mr. Ben adds up the six bits and other pieces, sends himself to Europe to refresh himself on the shapes of chapeaux. On departure's eve, as a special bon voyage present, he invites his faithful clients to a soiree sale at 2:15 a.m., since it is never too early to catch a bargain, with every one of 400 hats marked down to only $5 a throw...
...When Bon Vivant Georges Lurcy died in Manhattan in 1953, the Paris-born banker who had prospered as a House of Rothschild protege left an estate that included three houses and a famed art collection. After the bulk of his gallery was auctioned off for $2,200,000, Lurcy's trustees were able to provide a $150,000 annual income for his childless widow, Alice Snow Barbee Lurcy, a former Paris nightclub chorine once described by an art critic friend as "staggeringly beautiful, something between Rubens and Renoir." But last week, after the trust managers had sold her five...
...Bon Voyage...
...Grass, and has been nationalized by Jack Paar (28 appearances). Despite the cash struggle going on between Paar and Ed Sullivan, she performed last week on the Paar show, even though she is scheduled to tape a Sullivan show this week. Currently she is at Greenwich Village's Bon Soir, an underground cigarette oven so sophisticated, she claims, that "a nine-year-old boy came in here the other night, and when left...
...Marines aboard the sinking Bon Homme Richard did indeed capture the British Serapis in a bloody, muzzle-to-muzzle fight. But all of the 137 enlisted men were Frenchmen, in alien uniforms, vagrants recruited by John Paul Jones on the docks of L'Orient...