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...There is solid cocktail-party fodder among these volumes, such as this assessment of the election of 1828: "Jackson's supporters accused Adams of having premarital sex with his foreign-born wife, while Adams' supporters called Jackson's mother a whore." Consider bringing such trivia to an Independence Day barbecue as a sort of hostess gift. I think we've all attended get-togethers over the last few months where the conversation devolves into a round robin of each person's imagined death scenarios and everyone leaves early to go stock up on canned goods and gas masks. The amateur...
...memoir, Lucky) is the tale of an ordinary girl who is raped, murdered and dismembered in a field near her house. Three days later, a neighbor's dog comes trotting home with her elbow in its mouth. This is horror at its darkest and most tantalizing--a stiff cocktail of David Lynch and Judy Blume, served with a distinct chill--and as first chapters go, it's a knockout. The second chapter tops...
...throat cancer; in New Preston, Conn. Among his signatures were striped sailor T shirts in fine fabrics and cashmere sweaters atop taffeta skirts as alternatives to evening dresses. The son of a hardware-store owner from Fort Wayne, Ind., Blass watched Carole Lombard movies and sketched New York City cocktail parties as a boy; later, he dressed--and befriended--such clients from the social elite as Nancy Reagan and Pamela Harriman...
...slowdown in business travel, airlines are jetting ahead with long-term plans to upgrade their business-class perks. The reason: they don't want to be left behind when the sector takes off again. Cathay Pacific spokesman Patrick Garrett admits that investing in luxury touches like an in-cabin cocktail bar while the economy takes a nosedive seems counterintuitive, but it's the only way to keep patrons coming back. "Business class is the most competitive market, an airline's biggest profit earner and comprises the most demanding customers," says Garrett...
Though he has been celebrated on the covers of Forbes and Business Week, Kozlowski is, by most accounts, a relatively shy, unassuming guy, more content to ride his Harley, fly the company helicopter or sail his boat than work the room at a cocktail party. If you didn't have a deal to talk to him about, the conversation probably wasn't going to last long. "Dennis looked like he was always restless," says a business acquaintance. "I wonder if he was close to anybody, including his board...