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...fanciest shindig at the White House since the Reagan Administration started worrying about excessive opulence. But the cause was a sentimental favorite: the Princess Grace Foundation, incorporated after her death "to support educational and cultural activities with a primary focus on emerging young talent in the dance and theater arts...
...Philippe of the Waldorf (real name: Claudius Philippe), haughty arbiter of who sat where in one of New York City's fanciest hotel dining rooms, was charged with evading $25,000 worth of taxes on tips and kickbacks: one of the first such prosecutions by the IRS. He paid a fine...
...asked him to form a civilian intelligence service at the outset of World War II, Donovan followed the dictum of Stewart Menzies, his counterpart in the British secret service: "Intelligence is the business of gentlemen." Columnist Drew Pearson accurately described Donovan's fledgling OSS as "one of the fanciest groups of dilettante diplomats, Wall Street bankers and amateur detectives ever seen in Washington...
...best and the glossiest of the catalogues today look more like coffee-table books than anything as utilitarian as advertising, and they are far better read. (No longer does anyone call these artful artifacts junk mail.) Their makers enlist some of the world's fanciest models to animate their laces and tweeds, boots and blue jeans, at a cost of $2,000-plus per bod per day. (Sears, Roebuck has even used Cheryl Tiegs as a cover girl.) Their photographers, including such luminaries as Victor Skrebneski and Alex Chatelain, command daily fees of $3,000 and more...
...Like most country bootleggers, Sam bottled his moonshine in canning jars," Russell recalls. "The mourners approved of the fitting way in which Liz, as a grace note to his life, had him buried in the fanciest Mason jar ever sold in Loudoun County...