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WHEN Rockefeller turns a profit, he gives most of it to some 200 charities. But he likes to live well. He collects paintings (about 100 by Gainsborough, Bonnard, Vlaminck, etc.), houses (a Fifth Avenue duplex, an estate on the Hudson, a 15-room summer home on Fishers Island-a millionaire's retreat 135 miles from New York), cars (a Bentley, a Cadillac, four others). He loves speed, often commutes in his fast 65-ft. aluminum P-T boat to his office in the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center (of which he is chairman). He enjoys muscle-straining outdoor exercise...
...been apparent to friends for a long time. After she divorced him (because, as a friend says, "she found she didn't need a father, and wanted a husband"), she married Stage-TV Director Sidney Lumet, who was her own age, and resumed housekeeping in her ten-room duplex penthouse on Manhattan's fashionable Gracie Square. There, in the glow of dramatic opulence (red rugs, red chairs, white curtains, a pink passageway, a yellow door), she was transported to the heady world of upper Bohemianism in the company of the eliteniks of the theater. She painted (commendably), wrote...
...modest that he resolutely dodges speech invitations, never answers the Who's Who in America request for autobiographical information. Most of his profits go back into the business; he pays himself a salary of $250,000. He and Mitzi live in a 14-room Park Avenue duplex artfully done in French Provençal, play an occasional game of bridge, manage to take in nearly every Broadway opening. At his death, Newhouse's empire (which he estimates at $150 million-$200 million) will go into a nonprofit educational trust; the business will be run by his two sons...
...made no little splash with the applicants. "I want to live in the 20th century, not in some stuffy ivy-covered copy of Mount Vernon." "What's so great with the entry system, anyway? Personally I don't like stairs." "It's the modern look that hit me; the duplex rooms are 'glamor plus'--real appealing...
...Force-in-Being. Tommy White's day starts at 7:10 o'clock with pushups in the living room of his duplex quarters in Fort Myer, Va., takes him early (8:25) to work in Suite 4E924 of the Pentagon, where he is soon stirring up memorandums and directives-green for LeMay, pink for able Air Force Secretary James Douglas, white for his staff. Around him hangs the sense of illustrious predecessors: husky, flamboyant "Hap" Arnold; sinewy, battle-tried "Tooey" Spaatz; slim Hoyt Vandenberg, the old flyer with a 50-mission crush in his cap; Nate Twining...