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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winston is a builder at heart, and wherever he goes-in more than 200,000 miles of travel a year-he preaches the need of more home building. He is convinced that good housing is the best insurance against Communism ("People want to divide what you've got, not what they've got"), even believes that it is the cure for such social ills as alcoholism. ("Mendes-France would have cut out a lot more drinking had he built homes instead of trying to persuade Frenchmen to drink milk.") Winston has plenty of housetops to preach from. Outside...
...Manhattan sophisticates (mostly from west of the Hudson), The Four Seasons up to now has been just another baroque concerto by Italian Composer Antonio Vivaldi, or a topflight restaurant patronized by Americans in Munich, Germany. This week Manhattanites and visitors to Manhattan got the offer of an even more baroque outlet. From now on, if money, showmanship, and just plain spectacle count for anything. The Four Seasons will be synonymous with the world's costliest restaurant ($4.5 million to build), which swung open its Park Avenue doors this week on the ground floor of the bronzed Seagram Building...
...News, who named her Isabel and raised her-except for a brief period when she was kidnaped by some passing Indians-as his daughter. At 17, Isabel saw a performance of Robin Hood, decided then and there that she wanted to be an actress, ran away from home and got a job in the road company of Wang, under the name of Belle Livingstone. When father ordered her home. Belle simply stuck out her well-developed chest in defiance, walked up to the first man she saw-he happened to be a traveling salesman-and murmured: "Will you have...
...that she could go around the world on ?5. She won that bet. On the trip she dined with Lord Kitchener in a dahabeah on the Nile, made an expedition by elephant through the Ceylonese jungle, married an Italian count in Japan, found herself pregnant, and back in England, got news that her husband was dead...
Wasted Whiskers. There is again much of the old nostalgia. Back on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Golden recalls, the old folks would mutter, "A klug zu Columbus'n" whenever a boy got a bloody nose or the steam was not hot enough in the Turkish baths. Rough translation: "Columbus should have broken his head before he discovered America." But there were consolations. "For 2^ plain" a lad could buy a large glass of clear Seltzer. Flavoring cost a penny more, but sometimes he could persuade the counterman to "put a little on the top" for nothing. Jewish...