Word: chintz
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...color-blind chintz merchant to design the costumes...
...former Byzantine Regency splendour, little survives; the bunched-up seats of the balcony are basically the same-although decently robed in new chintz ("There was so much to be done," explains Bud Kramer '56, the theatre's manager); and of course the wicker reserved chairs in the front of the balcony have held their own -- though they too are hidden under a fresh coat of white paint; and even the new owners, Brian Halliday and Sy Harberg, have not yet been able to clear the old vaudeville dressing room under the stage of a hallowed rotogravure print labelled (boldly) "President...
...hangout for the Florida-vacationing Kennedy clan is Joe Kennedy's 16-room winter home on Millionaires' Row in Palm Beach. Modest by local Taj Mahal standards, the house has a simple, lived-in look. The living room furniture is slipcovered in durable green and white flowered chintz and is arranged, says one reporter, so that "there are aisles for the children to run through." As in all the Kennedy homes, the center of activities is outdoors, by the tennis court and swimming pool. From poolside, Joe Kennedy telephones around the U.S. to his children and business associates...
...Hayley the Second gets her first look at Boston and mother, and Hayley the First sees her dad. But dad is about to marry a proprietary blonde (Joanna Barnes) who plans to send her stepdaughter-to-be off to school in Switzerland and, no doubt, tack chintz up all over pop's adobe ranch house. After some wonderfully Balkan sabotage, the errant parents are lured back together...
...tastes. By the time the two children, Caroline and John Jr., got home from their Palm Beach vacations, Jackie had their rooms ready. Caroline found most of her white bedroom furniture from the Georgetown N Street house in a pale pink room with white woodwork and old-fashioned chintz curtains. Little John, now 9½ Ibs. and smiling broadly, was bedded down next door in a white room with white woodwork. He slept in the same white wicker bassinette that was used by his mother and his sister...