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...Starbord House, dinners were served on an early-1800s English table from porcelain that had belonged to Madame du Barry and the Prince de Condé. The sitting room, library and foyer were crammed with rare 17th and 18th century furniture and objets d'art. When Wickes, a retired lawyer, died in 1964 at the age of 88, his heirs gave the $4,000,000 collection to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Some 800 selections from it go on view next week. They have been exquisitely installed, with the aid of Wickes' longtime caretaker, English-born Charles...
...brought suit in a Paris court to have his ancestor's name deleted from the title, and Judge Max Leboulanger quickly agreed. "Damaging to the family's good name," ruled the magistrate. So, thanks to the Comte Xavier de Sade, an eminently proper gentleman farmer from Condé-en-Brie, the name of his peculiar forebear, the Marquis de Sade, was ordered removed from the billboards advertising the Paris production of Marat Sade. Protested Producer Tony Azzi: "Real sadism...
Newhouse already owned 14 other papers, plus Condé Nast publications, when he bought a controlling interest in the Springfield papers back in 1960. But voting rights to a large block of stock were not to be his until September 1967. In the meantime that stock was to be voted by the papers' management, which regarded Newhouse as a foreign raider and would not even let him look at the company's books. Newhouse fought back by filing a flock of lawsuits; he charged that the papers' profits were being haphazardly poured into the already swollen employee...
Richard Burton has long insisted that he would rather be a writer than an actor. Last summer, Condé Nast's Glamour magazine sent him a timid feeler asking if he might like to write a story for the Christmas issue. The idea appealed to Burton's repressed ambition, and he set to work in longhand. The result, which will next month become his first published short story, is anything but an embarrassment. It is worth every farthing he was paid for it. "He gets $500," says Glamour's Feature Editor Marilyn Mercer, "which is a very...
...sale: house on 6 acres wdlnd, stream, pond in Peekskill, N.Y.; furn comb air cond & heat; bit 1959 by Owner Jackie Gleason for $650,000, now avlbl because "my work has me bouncing around too much, pal"; includes 400-rcrd hi fi, grnd piano, elec organ, sht wv, lng wv, FM radios, many TV sets, 60-ft TV-radio antenna tower, rnd bthtub-shwr, 8-ft diamtr rnd bed with rnd sheets & rnd blnkts, 2 rnd bars (1 professional-sized), rnd card rm, pool tbl, and comfrtbl 7½-rm house near by for living...