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...These are but outward show. Within the palace portals is a treasury of Art that brings the value of their new-found home to $15,000,000: a Great Hall, where 150 trenchermen may dine on 16th Century refectory boards beneath the festal banners of Siena; six Gobelin tapestries which cost $575,000; carved ancient choir stalls; the bed of the great Richelieu for guests; $8,000 vases; gold dinner plates and paper napkins; a ping-pong table of medieval wood; a lavish theatre, where each night is shown the latest talking picture film, very likely flown that day from...
...late August Uihlein who made Schlitz great), belongs in fact to 17 Uihlein heirs. Three potent Uihlein brothers (Joseph, Robert, Erwin) still sit in the office managing their many interests, but in actual charge of brewery is its Secretary & Treasurer Sol E. Abrams. Joe Uihlein has fine furniture and Gobelin tapestries, likes to make speeches on Gaul, the History of Cavour or the Rise & Fall of the Roman Empire. At one time he built an elaborate candy plant "Eline's"* to compete with Hershey. It was not a great success, was said to have swallowed...
...Bessinge self-styled "Delegate" Stimson made himself at home in Louis XVI salons set out with slightly rusty suits of armor suggesting a museum. All the Louis XVI furniture, according to a spokesman for the Swiss real estate agent who leased the Chateau de Bessinge is upholstered in genuine Gobelin tapestry...
...McClintic of Oklahoma: "The working man may worry because his shoes will cost a dollar or two more but truffles for his paté de foie gras are on the free list. . . . His sugar bill goes up as does his milk bill and his meat bill but he can get Gobelin tapestries for his humble home duty free...
Author Bedel has a droll vivacity all his own. When his Bolivian Planter Cortes, newly rich, buys up the old estate of Fontecreuse in Touraine (southern France ?the Contes Drolatiques country), he installs an elevator, removes a Gobelin tapestry which interferes with the acoustics of his Negro saxophonist, and engages a Russian Count to preside over his kitchen. The Count is Molinoff, a person of glamor. Molinoff forgets he is cook, remembers only he is count. He spends a few stolen hours every day with Anne and Françoise, young daughters of a neighboring poor-but-proud royalist family...