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...backdrop for illuminated displays of reindeer, angels and the magi, has gone completely abstract. The stores along the street, which pay for the display according to their store frontage, this year hit upon a giant jeweled necklace consisting of eleven sections made up of 33 hexagonal frames wrapped in gilt tinsel. In the center of each hexagon is a three-foot star, and at the bottom of each dangles yet another star embedded with silver reflectors. Explains one of the designers: "Father Christmas is losing his charm. Even cribs are less popular. People want something different...
Selecting the six gilt-edged men for the cover was considerably more complicated than choosing the background. More than 120 candidates were considered and some 60 inter viewed in 30 states. To qualify for the cover, the millionaire had to be American, under 40, self-made and interesting. In an assignment that might be the envy of many a girl, Researcher Mary Cronin not only interviewed 15 young millionaires but also talked to physicians, psychiatrists and clergymen on what makes a man want to make a mil lion. As he handed in his story for editing by Edward Jamieson, Marshall...
...costliest wake in history. Through the gilt parlors and echoing halls of Algiers' $30 million Club des Pins sulked 1,800 idle Algerian servants, aided by 30 idle French maitres d'hotel and chefs, who demanded and got a month's salary for what ended up being five days' work. Imported caviar, champagne, whisky and steak poured into the cavernous complex even as delegates and foreign ministers from 45 nations made their reservations to depart. The club's living quarters were not even filled; most diplomats preferred the bustling Aletti Hotel downtown...
Next, Johnson went to the President's Room of the Capitol, a small but ornate room with a large gilt chandelier near the Senate chamber. It was in that room, 104 years before to the very day, that President Lincoln had signed a bill freeing slaves forced into the service of the Confederacy (the famed Emancipation Proclamation came 17 months later). To sign the voting rights bill, President Johnson used 50 pens, squiggling a tiny portion of his signature with each. He handed the first pen to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the second to Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen...
...France's Minister of Culture André Malraux, to redecorate the ceiling at the Paris Opera. This vast pantheon to music swirls with 2,153 sq. ft. of ballet dancers, firebirds and blossoms banked like clouds in hot Midi colors that triumph over the surrounding Second Empire gilt moldings (TIME, Nov. 6). In the mural he painted the face of his old friend Malraux-the gesture of a Renaissance artist paying homage to his patron. But as a grateful adopted son of France, Chagall made a truly princely gesture: he presented the ceiling, a year's labor...