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...Grant had trouble finding someone who could handle the real-life role. His four marriages-to Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton and Actresses Virginia Cherrill, Betsy Drake and Dyan Cannon-all ended in divorce. Last week it was revealed that the Sultan of Suave, who is now a director of Fabergé, had taken No. 5. She is Barbara Harris, a stunning brunette in her early 30s. The Fabergent reportedly met his fabulady at a London hotel, where she worked as a publicist. Grant, 77, admitted that they had been married "for quite some time," but wouldn't say just...
Nikita Khrushchev denounced them as "foul-smelling armchairs with wheels," but the comrade who owns a car today treasures it as much as a Russian nobleman once valued his Fabergé eggs. The U.S.S.R. has only about 5 million cars, compared with 104 million in the U.S. The list of models available to the average Soviet citizen is small and the price high, ranging from the tiny two-door Zaporozhets ($6,000) to the large Volga sedan...
Speidel, a division of Textron Inc., has an elaborate array of moisturizers, conditioners and scents. Fabergé Inc. has its Brut line of men's toiletries. Even conservative Chesebrough-Ponds, virtually the Sears, Roebuck of the cold cream world, is emphasizing rugged outdoor men in its commercials for hand lotions. The Coty company, which for years has offered Musk For Men cologne, is preparing to launch another entry into the sweet-smelling sweepstakes, Mark...
...high prices limited to paintings. Earlier this year auctioneers gaveled record prices for a French snuffbox ($150,000), a Roman glass bowl ($1.9 million), an American weather vane ($25,000), a Louis XV marquetry cabinet ($1.8 million), a Fabergé hippopotamus cigarette lighter ($55,000), a book of photographs ($100,000), a 2nd century A.D Roman head ($94,000). Per auctionem ad astra...
...must verify the claims made in any commercial before it appears, hiring reliable independent analysts to study them if the star has no expertise in the subject. Following those rules might be easy enough for Farrah Fawcett-Majors; any independent analyst would confirm that she looks ravishing wearing Fabergé cosmetics. But can O.J. Simpson really be sure that Hertz makes rental cars available as quickly as he says in those airports he hurdles through...