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...million a year" for the next 20 years to the Catholic Church. (In view of later events, this may not be money but souls.) All that remains is for the cardinal's aide, a celibate lay brother named Julian, to go to Miss Alice's enormous Renaissance chateau and arrange the details. A shy God-intoxicated man, Brother Julian (John Gielgud) does not dream that he is keeping a rendezvous with temptation, trial and death...
Norell & a French Chateau. In San Francisco, as elsewhere, elegance is the order of the day. Mrs. John Rosekrans Jr. welcomes it, even though her own life has never been much different ("Except," she admits, "for the war, when people were reluctant to display wealth, it being, after all, such a very sad time"). As with most of the Bay area's elite, Mrs. Rosekrans is devoted to the at-home dinner party, points with pride to the increased use of fish knives and finger bowls as table appointments. For clothes, she depends on Balenciaga and Simonetta & Fabiani...
...only period in her life when things were any less elegant than today. Certain facets, in fact, have not changed a whit: her servants have been with her for close to 25 years; her San Mateo home is the one she moved into as a bride; the French chateau the family visit every year has been theirs for a century. Mrs. de Guigne shops both here and abroad, finds European stores "more fun" but "has a ball" Christmas shopping in Macy's. Dior, Balenciaga and Saint Laurent are her best-loved designers, but her wardrobe is catholic enough...
Alcoholic beverages are given more than any other gift, but tastes are becoming sophisticated. Where once the gift was a predictably expensive bottle of Scotch or bourbon, this year it is more likely to be a bottle or case of Chateau Haut-Brion or -Chateau La-fite-Rothschild. Wines have increased in a decade from 10% of Christmas orders to 35%, according to Samuel...
Copeland's hilltop estate is only one of the largest in the woodland Delaware area known as the "Du Pont Chateau Country," where the family's estates lock one into another to form a magnificent preserve for shooting and fox hunting. Proud of their French Huguenot ancestry, the Du Fonts have given their places such names as Montchanin, Granogue, Chevannes, Nemours, Louviers and Bois des Fosses. The houses contain the big-game trophies bagged by the family on African safaris, the pictures of such Du Pont yachts as the American Eagle (a 1964 America's Cup contender...