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...Gilt Monument. The Fisher fortune grew so large that the brothers were rumored to have dropped a cool $3 billion in the 1929 crash; it is estimated to be about $500 million even today. Their influence at G.M. began to decline after Fred and Charles resigned in 1934. Charles concentrated on managing the vast assets of the family investment company, filled his mansion with heavily carved furniture and valuable paintings, and in later years amused himself with a thoroughbred stable in Kentucky. Aside from the millions of bodies still turned out every year by G.M.'s Fisher division...
...days at his country home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, he studied questions submitted in advance of a scheduled press conference and memorized the answers. At 3 p.m. on the appointed day, as the raspberry-red draperies parted in the Elysée Palace's gilt-encrusted Salle des Fetes, De Gaulle strode to the carpeted dais, and for the next 80 minutes delivered a virtual monologue to the assembled crowd of 900 correspondents, government officials and others...
Then last week Yves St. Laurent threw open his salon and voila! the priestesses of high fashion rocketed into orbit. "It made a week of life on gilt ballroom chairs worthwhile," wrote the Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard. "St. Laurent has always known that what modern women really want to look like are little boys...
...founded in what is now Budapest the first Hungarian convent of the Poor Clares of the Order of St. Francis, and for the rest of her life, she showered it with gifts. Among these was a "small altarpiece for domestic use of silver gilt." Was this the same work now at The Cloisters? Hungarian scholars have always thought so. Cloisters Curator Margaret Freeman, who presumably knows (but will not tell) where the museum got it, feels ready to agree...
...Luxe Color is perfection; the sets, for the most part, are harmonious modules of the Golden Section to which all good classical architecture answered; and a capital ship for an ocean trip is Cleopatra's barge-250 ft. from prow to poop and covered with gilt linoleum...