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...Been an awful good girl, Santa baby, / So hurry down the chimney tonight. ... Come and trim my Christmas tree / With some decorations bought at Tiffany. / I really do believe in you. / Let's see if you believe in me. ... Santa cutie, and fill my stocking with a duplex/ And checks. / Sign your X on the line, Santa cutie / And hurry down the chimney tonight." Hurry down the chimney? Kitt expressed this lubricious sentiment in buttoned-down 1953, the beginning of the Eisenhower years. Yikes...
...mother, Stanley Ann, who took young Maya along when she went to Indonesia and Africa to pursue her master's and doctoral degrees studying and helping village craftsmen (Barack was left behind to be raised by Madelyn Dunham and her late husband Stanley in the 10th story Beretania duplex in the Makiki area of Honolulu). Nevertheless, cautioned by her brother's campaign advisers, Soetoro-Ng always watches her words, knowing how easily the words of a relative can reflect in unintended ways on the candidate...
...balls, then the Cokes?there's no end to it," Simon explains. "I decided to join a tennis club instead, which was, at one point, my only contact with mankind." While the house is decorated to resemble a country retreat in, say, Connecticut, Simon's seven-room Manhattan duplex is just the opposite: sleekly art deco, almost Californian, with a sun-flooded atrium at penthouse level, offering sweeping views in three directions of Park Avenue and the city skyline...
...relations for oil companies, called family and friends for money, then oil business associates in New York, San Francisco, Washington and Houston. They raised $2.5 million - the majority of it locally - to buy and raze 19 properties in a 10-square-block area near their homes. Petrie's new duplex is their prototype for the future: three stories, 2,400 square feet of living space, built up at least 9 feet 4 inches, accommodating a garage that can flood. Priced to sell at $495,000. "We're in it for the long haul," says Petrie. "People see somebody...
...clients nor the specialists pay her for the referrals. "I make only my regular commission on each sale," she says, "no matter how much extra service I provide." And Fennell doesn't stint on the extras. After she helped an elderly woman's adult children sell their mom's duplex in Sun City Center, Fla., she disposed of the belongings left behind--arranging for the better pieces to be auctioned off, dropping giveaways at a charitable outlet and shipping sentimental favorites to family members around the country...