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...Niagara Falls. In Bombay an admiring Indian textile worker spread ice yards of silk in her path up a tenement district stairway. She went right on being Mrs. Roosevelt. She "performed namas-kar" repeatedly, once giving some wealthy hosts the jim jams by using it to salute the footmen at dinner. She crept into native mud huts, worked an ancient spinning wheel in New Delhi, accepted a handmade revolver from Khyber Pass tribesmen, showed some Pakistani teen-agers how to dance the "Roger de Coverley." In the seven years since she has become the world's most famous widow...
...candlelit Governor's Palace at restored Williamsburg, Va., a string ensemble played Mozart, liveried footmen served fruit punch, and 200 visitors swapped the latest ideas about antiques. It was the 19th and final night of the second annual forum on antiques, sponsored by Colonial Williamsburg Inc. and the magazine Antiques. Lock, stock & rocking chair, Antiques' Editor Alice Winchester and most of her staff had traveled to Williamsburg to pick up a few ideas themselves. Last week they were back at work in their modern Manhattan offices, getting ready to tell their readers all about it in a forthcoming...
...Coal Trust. Alice was a strong-minded girl, always abreast of stockmarket quotations. Of her it was said that "in any sort of weather, she works on all the while, until she's raked together, a tidy little pile."*Because her father liked to employ titled Europeans as footmen and office boys, Alice had acquired a rather low opinion of continental coronets ("You bid the right amount-you own a duke or count...
...plot unfolds in the fabulous Kuder mansion (of course on Broadway), where the footmen wear burgundy, the bellhops chartreuse, and the various rooms are connected with an intercom television network. Old Kuder goes after Ludviga with some very fancy small talk: "You are a goddess, I am a millionaire, so we are equals. I wish I were younger but immortality is one thing you can't buy even in America." Meanwhile, Dollar Princess Jenny plots to throw her father out of his business and get all the money for herself. She sings: "Love is no good at the bank...
...Manhattan, Lady Rothermere, handsome wife of the London Daily Mail's publisher, gravely discussed a particularly distressing shortage in austere England: "The days of the old English butler are finished," she told Manhattan Gossipist Charles Ventura. The time has passed when young footmen, who normally graduate to butlerhood, "take . . . pride in their profession; they won't take the time to learn it. When this generation dies out, there won't be any new crop...