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...trip) and always takes a single room rather than a suite when he is staying in a hotel. He is often shy and inarticulate among strangers, yet he has managed to dazzle some of the nation's top businessmen with his knowledge and versatility. "Everybody loves Tex," says Buff Chandler, wife of Los Angeles Times President Norman Chandler, "but nobody really knows...
...goes about flipping off lights and mercilessly fires longtime employees to save money. He uses the stock market as a bellwether for the chain he helped found, spending and expanding when it rises and retrenching when it falls. A knowledgeable antique collector, a frenetic photographer and an amateur radio buff, he has brought frowns to some Beacon Hill brows by installing a shiny antenna atop his home on Boston's venerable Louisburg Square...
...least she had something on. Granted, it was not much; a bit of fluff here and there. But compared to the buff that Carroll Baker, 32, wore for the first days of screening The Carpetbaggers, her two-piece boa was a positive shroud. By the script, Carroll-as Screen Queen Rita Marlowe-was supposed to cavort on the chandelier until it collapsed from extra weight. All those feathers, no doubt...
...race them. His first wife divorced him. In 1959 he set to work on Spirit in earnest. Before he was through, he quit his job, exhausted his unemployment compensation, was scrimping by on the earnings of his second wife, a waitress in a drive-in (and a car buff like himself). "Four years," he said last week. "Four years of seven days a week, 18 hours a day-no movies, no going out to dinner, no TV, nothing but work...
Marlborough's first break came in 1948 when a young art buff named David Somerset, the son of the heir presumptive to the Duke of Beaufort, joined the staff. "He's related to half of the English aristocracy, and they entrusted him to sell their masterpieces, all blue chips," says Harry Fischer. On their own behalf, the founders landed some handsome commissions from sales of major collections on the Continent, and they have used their capital with devastating shrewdness...