Word: charvet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...metals. Grunewald collected $10,000 for the project, paid the former Secretary of War $2,500. ¶ Every year Grunewald spent about $900 giving $7.50 ties to friends. The ties were cut from a special bolt of cloth reserved for his "Christmas Tie-Out Club" by Manhattan's Charvet et Fils, purveyors of expensive cravats. The ties, said Grunewald. went to "high-class people." The subcommittee got a list of "club" members from Charvet et Fils, then, red-faced, decided not to make the names public. ¶In 1950 Grunewald lunched with Dorothy Lamour and her husband William Howard...