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...stocky, has a handsome bearded face, and chooses to wear a symbolic slave bracelet. He is extraordinarily articulate verbally, and, by funneling his anger into his art, can afford to be genuinely warm and personable in face-to-face dealings with whites. There is, thus, a division in his work between violence and restraint, and a division in himself between anger and cordiality...
...usual items for personal use duty-free. Not to bring: Soviet currency, firearms, pigeons, pornography or propaganda. Tourists are asked to declare any gold they are bringing in and, since customs officials seem obsessed with this, it is not a time to be careless. An overlooked charm bracelet has been known to result in a lengthy inquisition...
...Bracelets & Billiards. Meanwhile, in Paris last week, more than 10,000 buyers a day were bustling through the Third Biennial of Antiques. Set off by the Grand Palais' lavish decorations, including 500 trees and an artificial lake with swans, more than $10 million worth of objets d'art were on sale. Rarities included the child-sized billiard table given to King Louis XIV when he was twelve years old, and an art nouveau serpentine bracelet designed for Sarah Bernhardt...
...time le plus chic; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A bootlegger in the '20s, Billingsley opened the Stork in 1929, coddled columnists and flattered the famous. Walter Winchell publicized the joint, Brenda Frazier brought her friends, Ethel Merman came with the show folks (and got a diamond bracelet inscribed "From Sherm to Merm"); pretty girls, famous or not, got gifts of perfume, gold Stork keys, jeweled compacts. In the '50s, arrogance at the door and labor troubles in the kitchen signaled the end that the discotheques finally accomplished...
Last week one customer came in with a particularly urgent problem: she had run up a $3,000 charge at a department store, and the store was threatening to sue. A $9,000 diamond bracelet got her a loan of $3,100-at 2% monthly interest, which is more than twice what the bank would have charged. Nor is trouble the only reason to visit your friendly pawnbroker. Hollywood's movie colony, which dabbles in real estate, thinks nothing of pawning jewels at the California rate of 2½% monthly interest to sew up a juicy deal. And then...