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...financial situation: "I've eaten every book by the time it's published." He helps support "13 females," counting his secretary, relatives, and a cinnamon poodle named Josephine, has fixed expenses of $21,000 a year "before buying a single hamburger." More to the point, he prefers filet mignon. A check-grabbing bon vivant, he turns pale at the thought of scaling down his caviar-and-cognac way of life-and managed to stay in the pink in Russia, where caviar cost $1.35 a portion, cognac up to $2.25 a snifter. He wears custom-made suits from London...
Eggs a la Russe with Caviar . . . southern Bisque . . . Baked Stuffed Filet of Sole Marguery, Parslied Potatoes, Harvard Beets . . . Combination Salad . . . Rhubarb-Strawberry Pie . . . Coffee...
...screenful of Disney-like animals spouting slang. In a coy story-within-a-story device, a researcher (Dr. Frank Baxter) and a fiction writer (Richard Carlson) tried to make their material palatable to the cloddish cartoon animals. The total effect of Hemo was unhappily that of a choice filet mignon smothered with gobs of marshmallow sauce...
...thousand feet up in the Swiss Alps, in St. Moritz' Palace Hotel, 1,000 guests washed down a dinner of caviar and filet mignon with vintage champagne, then danced the night away until 7 in the morning. Among the merrymakers were Shipping Tycoon Stavros Niarchos, Cinemastars Linda Christian and Hildegarde Neff, Liechtenstein's Prince Constantine, Irish Beer Heir Loel Guinness. As the evening glowed to a climax, roly-poly Winston Churchill II, 16-year-old grandson of Sir Winston, leaped on a table, grabbed a cane, gaily began popping the balloons...
...color was ruddy, perhaps higher than usual around the cheekbones. For dinner he skipped the thick soup on the regular menu, had instead a cup of clear consommé, which came more in line with his diet of 1,800 calories a day. He ate a small piece of filet mignon (without the himself displayed at dinner of White House News Photographers Association...