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...newest of her high-priced nightspots. The sometime singer-actress, notorious for banning the unhip from her clubs in Paris, Monte Carlo and Rio, was all open arms as she offered several hundred guests a preview look at her new dance-and-dining emporium. The locale: Manhattan's Delmonico hotel. The stars: Actress Candice Bergen, Designer Hubert de Givenchy and former Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland. The floor show: a fashion exhibit featuring "ready-to-dance" dresses created by the red-haired restaurateur herself. "I have always, since a child, dream to have my name on Broadway," confessed...
Here is President James Garfield, for instance, well before he was shot down, dining at the posh New York restaurant of the gilded age, Delmonico...
...fear of accidental death, not for the usual reason but because the world might think he was a coward who took his own life. "If I got killed in my car on the way to Atlanta," he explains, "everyone would think Calley copped out. I had a room in Delmonico's Hotel in New York once with a floor-to-ceiling window. I was afraid to go to sleep at night because I thought I might sleepwalk through one of those 18th-floor windows and everybody would think Calley committed suicide...
...Delmonico's, Wall Street's favorite restaurant, is crowded again and, despite the chill of midwinter, the speculative sap is rising in Manhattan's brokerage community. Last week the Dow-Jones average climbed for the fourth straight week, closing at 888.83, the highest in 20 months; on one day, trading volume on the New York Exchange set a new record: 28,250,000 shares. One single trade of 3,248,000 shares of Allis-Chalmers, the largest in history, exceeded the average daily volume of the Big Board eleven years...
Beyond bonuses, one of the most fertile areas for chopping is the expense account. "Our business certainly is not what it was before," laments Mario Tucci, owner of Delmonico Restaurant, one of the most expensive watering spots in the Wall Street area. The $75-a-day suites for visiting customers that brokerage houses have maintained in hotels along Central Park South have been dropped...