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...floor and zigzagging across the border. In 1960, an attack of sinus trouble almost did him in: someone poured acid in his bottle of nose drops. The deed was discovered when a drop spilled on the sink and the King watched in fascination as it burned straight through the chrome fittings...
...London streetwalkers; Lenin's fondness for a Franco-Russian woman during his pre-Revolution exile in Paris: all these trivial addenda lend a sense of humanity to the men who made history and help relate them to the banality of history as it is lived. Yet Jim Bishop, chrome-plated chronicler of "days" in the lives of Christ and Kennedy, Lincoln and-now-Lyndon Baines Johnson, carries the device too far. For eleven days, Bishop tagged the President's heels-even into the flowered fields of the L.BJ. ranch-notebook at the ready for the drop...
...usual eyecatchers were on hand last week at Geneva's Salon Interna tional de 1'Automobile where 78 car makers from 13 countries bared their new chrome. Ferraris, Maseratis and Aston Martins gleamed disdainfully, while a Daimler reposed in a bed of rhododendrons. High performance and prices typified the new models. Italy's Fiat presented its $5,859 Dino, boasting a Ferrari-designed engine, while O.S.I, of Turin produced the silvery Scarabeo. From France came the Matra 530, a Le Mans-styled model with a sloping tail, a Ford Taunus engine and a built-in roll...
...York's bearded, gently humorous Jason Seley, 47, whose latest show opened at Manhattan's Kornblee Gallery last week, strives for the best of both worlds. His angular, hole-marked and hollowly curvilinear pieces are welded together from junk. But since he works with slightly used chrome-plated automobile bumpers, the results are so gleamingly bright and so artfully constructed that some viewers are unaware that they are looking at automobile bumpers...
...Wolfe, he milks the various segments of the American elite for all they are worth and then uses the material for novels. Past Gilbert victims include the prestigious families of Westchester (Silver Spoon), the wealthy American businessmen in France (The New Ambassadors), and the automobile society in Detroit (American Chrome). Now Gilbert wants to tell us about the rich of New York City, the beautiful people of Park Avenue who grace the back pages of Time magazine. He's discovered something, out boy. As he puts it, "WEALTH and WITH-ITness. BLUE-BLOODED HIPSTERISM. All the most INteresting people...