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...finding endless fun in universal human foibles and frustrations. His career, which began as a $10-a-week saxophonist on New York's borsch circuit, has made him a millionaire. It has brought him a $100,000 Long Island home with swimming pool and three servants; a duplex Manhattan penthouse office suite that boasts a rehearsal hall and a Rouault; seven years of psychoanalysis, and such possessions as 50 broad-shouldered suits, a $4,000 diamond-and-star-sapphire ring and a solid gold lighter for his long, fat cigars. The last time he was on somebody else...
...Garrison Forest, where her father wound up in a necking session with one of her schoolmates. ''You look like a clown riding to a circus!" Mummy would scream if Diana hit an off note in her dress. "Sometimes," says Diana, recalling her mother's Grade Square duplex, "I was brought down to be introduced to Miss Gertrude Stein or Mr. Michael Arlen or Miss Tallulah Bankhead or the Duke of Alba." Barrymore relations showed up. too. "Aunt Ethel'' came to dinner, sipped lavishly, slipped and fell upon the floor. "Is Aunt Ethel very sick?" Diana...
...Niarchos, one of the richest men in the world, is well on his way toward becoming one of the world's great collectors. (His prize painting is El Greco's Pietà, for which he paid $400,000.) With town houses in Paris and Athens, a penthouse duplex in Manhattan, a mansion on Long Island, a London penthouse at Claridge's, a chateau on the French Riviera, a lush Bermuda beach residence and a 190-ft. yacht, the Creole, biggest privately owned sailing vessel in the world, Niarchos has acres of wall space, always a challenge...
...then he just makes you want to cry, 'Oh, thank you for loving me!'" Despite her porcelain fragility. Felicia soon instilled some fireside virtues in her man. They have two children? Jamie, 5, and Alexander Serge (named for Koussevitzky). 19 months?and live in a nine-room duplex just cater-cornered from Carnegie Hall. But Lennie's fierce energy makes it hard for him to relax; when he plays with the children, reports Felicia, "he plays too hard, throws them too high, squeezes them too tight." For all his "settling down." Bernstein has not noticeably slowed his pace. He seems...
Collector Untermyer, a longtime New York jurist, now retired at 70, inhabits a dark Fifth Avenue duplex crammed to its high ceilings with porcelains, splendid tapestries, bronzes and English furniture. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum farther up the Avenue, which should some day inherit the Untermyer collection. About the only thing in his apartment not destined for museum display is the TV set squatting patiently at the foot of his bed. Among his Meissen prizes are the three pieces shown opposite...