Word: grand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memories of your own rather pleasant weekend, filled with morning sails and evening gins-and-tonic, gives you the strength to fight off any and all twinges of upper-middle-class guilt. Back to the newspaper, which offers little solace: the holiday weekend; it reports, featured a grand total of 15 murders, not including the 150 or so wounded in the explosion of an ice-cream truck in Manhattan. And the summer hasn't even begun...
...flying millions was the memory of the man responsible. Born in Frankfurt in 1883, Von Hirsch began working at the turn of the century in the Offenbacher leather firm owned by his uncle. He eventually built it into one of the finest such companies in Europe. (The Grand Duke of Hesse enabled him to add the aristocratic von to his name by making him a baron.) Von Hirsch bought his first painting, a Toulouse-Lautrec, in 1907, and about that time also picked up a canvas dated 1901 by a 26-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso...
...Prince Rainier 26 years ago, there were other subjects to pursue. The guest list, first intended to include family friends only, read like a compendium of the Almanack de Gotha and Variety. Among those invited: two ex-Kings (Umberto II of Italy and Michael of Rumania), the Aga Khan, Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia and Frank Sinatra, David Niven and Cary Grant. (Britain's Prince Charles, otherwise engaged, sent regrets...
...sendorfer, which employs 135 craftsmen at its factory in Wiener Neustadt and 100 more in the finishing plant in Vienna, is Cartier of keyboard makers. With European Steinways made in Hamburg, and Bechstein, another grand old veteran, based in Berlin, the Bösendorfer is part of a tiny musical elite: what aficionados consider the triumvirate of pianistic excellence. But in price and - some think - even tone, Bösendorfer has the edge. Its 9-ft. 6-in. grand costs $38,000 (Steinway's largest U.S. model, 8 ft. 11% in., costs $17,220), and its smallest piano...
...result of Levitt's story, his father Albert Levitt, a government engineer, faces a preliminary hearing on a kidnaping charge July 18, and a grand jury in New York State is considering whether to indict others. The father has pleaded innocent to the charge...