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Though he does not enjoy the Paris cocktail-party circuit, Mitterrand likes to dine with such old Socialist comrades as Claude Estier, Louis Mermaz and Pierre Joxe. Other close friends include a businessman from his native region and the owner of a taxi fleet. He is seen from time to time in Left Bank restaurants with one or another of the attractive young women whose company he enjoys. But he is also a family man who spends most weekends with his wife, visiting friends or staying in his converted sheep barn in southwestern France...
...collectors of royalabilia, and those who manufacture it, the July 29 wedding is already proving a bonanza. With ingenuity that belies current economic trends, British manufacturers have made it possible to dine on royal wedding place mats, sew with commemorative thimbles and dry royal couple plates with royal couple tea towels, a steal at $3.30. Smokers can light up with Charles and Diana lighters and extinguish butts in C & D ash trays. Tea drinkers can sip from a C & D mug, pour cream from a C & D jug, add sugar with a keepsake teaspoon. Di fans can purchase a copy...
...measure one of the world's finest French restaurants. The authors rate equally high The Four Seasons, where vraiment the courtesy, the ambience, the efficiency as well as the food are "an amazement." Be adventurous like your French ancestors there: cross the bridge and dine in le vrai Brooklyn, at the Continental-style River Café or else at Gage and Tollner, which, contrary to the authors' statement that there are no bistros vraiment Américains in New York, is just about as American as you can get, serving the good Atlantic seafood and the great corn...
...last night of the convention season was nothing less than spectacular. Every lighting lackey and cable layer was invited to swanky Tavern-on-the-Green in New York's Central Park to dance and dine the night away with the top brass. With enough liquor to anesthetize a Russian army and with every kind of food known to man, we all soon got into the spirit. Beefy cameramen jostled the likes of Lesley Stahl at the crepe and caviar table, and pool secretaries chatted with producers...
...doorstep. Last week, however, the good "doctor" turned 77 at home in La Jolla, Calif., braving an avalanche of affection that was greater than ever. The reason: Governors of 15 states had declared March 2 Dr. Seuss Day. Indiana's Robert Orr went so far as to dine on green eggs and ham-favorite feast of Seuss's Sam-I-Am. Shudders Geisel: "If all the Governors take to eating green eggs and ham, I am sort of fearful about the future of this country...