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...Japan's urban-land price index 670% since 1955, has made land in Japan the most expensive in the world. Frontage on the gilded Ginza shopping thoroughfare in central Tokyo sells for as much as $18 million per acre v. top prices of about $9,000,000 in choicest Manhattan, $6,500,000 in San Francisco, $4,000,000 on the French Riviera. Even in exurbia, 1½ hours away from downtown Tokyo, the going rate is $38,000 an acre. A three-bedroom suburban home that would rent for $250 a month in the U.S. can easily command...
Undercover Activities. What were they all doing there? Casing the joint. For zebraed old "Elmo's," Manhattan's choicest dance-and-supper spot from the early '30s until the death of Proprietor John Perona in 1961, was opening under new management...
...film's choicest surprise occurs in the last reel or so, when Hayley blithely outwits 69-year-old Pola Negri, femme fatale of the silent era. In her first film since 1943, Temptress Negri, coddling her pet cheetah aboard an improbable yacht, plays an eccentric millionairess with a passion for jewels. Her bizarre, spoofing comeback points up a new worldliness in Disney, who has obviously decided that what was grand passion for Grandpa is just good clean fun for the kids...
Bikinis, however, put the navel back in style-turned it, in fact, into something of a fashion must (not even the choicest midriff could get by without one). What was good at the beach was "obviously just as good in town, if only someone could figure out how to do it. Luckily, someone did. Just this month, Vogue magazine proudly presented the results of Paris Couturier Courreges' figuring: a pair of slippery, silver-sequinned evening slacks that underscore the area with a white satin bow. The cost? $3,695. The navel? No longer a laughing matter, it presents another...
...takes the pulse of an era. Such a collection is that of Dr. Arthur Hahnloser, who lived in Winterthur, near Zurich, until his death in 1936. In his Villa Flora, a large and angular house behind an iron fence on a faceless street, he gathered one of the choicest private hoards of post-impressionist art in the world (see following pages...