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...Honoré, the stylishness of Rome's Via Condotti or the hustling excitement of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. But the very rich find most of the store names cozy and familiar: Courrèges, Fred Joaillier, Gucci, Hermes. Bally, Céline, Ted Lapidus, Bilari, Nazareno Gabrielli, Battaglia, Mille Chemises, Omega, Saint-Germain, Pierre Deux and Lothars of Paris. Others are of questionable vintage: Giorgio, Mr. Guy, even a Jerry Magnin store that has the temerity to put sale soccer shoes in its window. In all, 60 stores along 2½ blocks of Rodeo Drive rang up sales of $200 million last year...
Last week Democratic Representative Fernand St Germain, chairman of a House banking subcommittee, sounded a battle cry for the reformers as he opened hearings on bank law enforcement, including the Lance case. St Germain called for "a serious and vigorous effort to improve the nation's banking codes," particularly in such back-scratching areas as "insider lending, tie-ins among banking institutions and the ease with which changes in bank control are financed." Said he: "The evidence I have seen to date leads me to believe that Bert Lance, his family and friends regarded the Calhoun First National Bank...
...such abuses, Congressman St Germain would make it illegal for a banker to borrow from a correspondent bank under any circumstances. Bankers disagree vehemently on this point. Complained the ABA's Smith: "That may look good on the page of an economics textbook. But it would be disastrous for good, competitive banking. After all, bankers need full and speedy access to credit...
...when his father finally gave in to his insistent artistic aspirations, Edgar-Hilaire-Germain de Gas (who, spurning the aristocratic connotations of the original, later changed his name to Degas) sought out his revered mentor. He asked Ingres what he should do to become a great painter, as if such advice could be capsulized into a brief rejoinder. But Ingres, never at a loss for a fast and memorable answer to bottomless questions like this, told Degas simply: "Draw lines, young man, many lines, from memory or from nature; it is in this way that you will become a good...
This is the year, the British government promises, that the Rebellion in America will be crushed. "Once those Rebels have felt a smart blow, they will-submit," predicts King George III, while Colonial Secretary Lord George Germain confidently talks of victory in one vigorous campaign. The vacillations of Lord North, the head of the government, seem ended: he now demands that the Americans be reduced to "a proper constitutional state of obedience...