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...guests, as he heads for the dining room: "My cook doesn't like to be kept waiting." He likes to dance and gossip,-"gives or attends at least five parties a week in London or Paris. Largely to accommodate his friends, Niarchos maintains a Long Island estate, a duplex apartment in Manhattan, town houses in Paris and Athens, a London penthouse at Claridge's once occupied by Sir Winston Churchill, a four-story, $575,000 Cap d'Antibes chateau that has sheltered such royal refugees as the Duke of Windsor and Belgium's ex-King Leopold...
Hattie Carnegie was a temperamental whirlwind, who loved the glittering world she lived in, doted on poker, slot machines and canasta. Her Fifth Avenue duplex was serenely elegant, from the gold-plated fixtures in her bathroom to the crepe-dechine sheets and mink coverlet on her bed. Lunching at the Pavilion, sweeping into the opera or arriving in Paris, Hattie was always a conversation-stopper. Her domestic life was sometimes hectic: after two brief and capricious marriages, she finally settled down with Major John Zanft, a childhood sweetheart from the East Side. "I've had three husbands," she often...
...final plans submitted ranged from a single eleven-story building for dormitories with an adjacent building containing dining and commons facilities, to a group of eight or nine small three-story buildings, each housing about 36 students. In between were such ideas as duplex apartments and a larger building containing many small entries, a plan similar to that of the present Houses...
...least five dwellings, including the Olivos estate and the official mansion. A third was a get-away-from-it-all weekend house on the pampas south of Buenos Aires, fitted out with a fencing court and white bearskin rugs. His fourth residence was a duplex apartment atop an eight-story building, where, in boudoirs lined with mirrors, Daddykins liked to while away the hours with Nelly. Closets were crammed with suits, uniforms, jackets, 13 pairs of riding boots...
...Frank Sinatra, Cinema Editor Henry Bradford Darrach Jr. was on vacation in Europe, still unaware that his first job upon returning would be to write the Sinatra story. Meanwhile, Correspondent Ezra Goodman scoured Hollywood, pursuing Sinatra himself. The West Coast chase led Goodman from Sinatra's luxurious duplex on Wilshire Boulevard through recording studios and an Italian restaurant to the singer-actor's sumptuous dressing room...