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From his 3-ft. by 6-ft., glass-walled, air-conditioned booth on the Washington-New York highway, Toll Collector William Piergalline has a smashing view of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, whose twin, gray-green spans arc gracefully over the Delaware River. But Piergalline, 54, a squat, salty, seven-year veteran of the Delaware River and Bay Authority, rarely notices his surroundings. Like the other toll collectors who, along with six automatic coin receptacles, handle the 16 lanes of the bridge's two Delaware-side toll plazas, he is much too busy raking in the cash. Sixty cents...
...there is still a market for the exotic fare that made A&F celebrated. The Dallas store has already stocked up with a $350 rhinoceros-shaped leather hassock, $300 pipes made from bruyère roots and $40,000 elephant guns inlaid with gold and platinum. A discriminating car collector can pick up a new version of the famed Abercrombie Runabout sports convertible for $20,775. If any buyer cares, the car gets a surprising 25 m.p.g. on the highway...
...celebrate 16 stained-glass windows that Tiffany treasured and installed in his lavish house in Oyster Bay, N.Y. The house burned to the ground in 1957, but somehow these windows survived and were bought by Hugh McKean, then president of Rollins College, and his wife Jeanette, a longtime Tiffany collector. With the windows, the McKeans set up a gallery near their home in Winter Park, Fla. Only after special pleas from Museum Director Thomas Buechner did they agree to lend the windows for Corning's opening...
...years would have headed for the open path to success, the class of '30 found itself roadblocked by the Depression. Not surprisingly, these men often took whatever jobs they could get: Cameron Blaikie Jr. '30 reports positions as an apprentice iron worker, salesman for a chimney-cleaning oufit, bill collector, and finally a railroad...
...spacy blond movie comedian (Foxes, Serial) who rose to fame as Major "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the 1970 movie MASH; and Jonathan Krane, 28, a Los Angeles tax attorney; she for the second time, he for the first; at the Malibu, Calif., home of Actress Jennifer Jones and Art Collector Norton Simon...