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Sculptor Haseltine's brilliant, blinkered devotion to animal subjects has made him tops in a narrow field. He has done prize pigs, sheep and dogs as well-some of them in 24-carat gold inlaid with precious gems-but horses are his forte, at a fee of $1,800 to $30,000 apiece. "I used to feel a bit put out," says Haseltine with a deprecating shrug, "when people referred to me as 'the horse-sculptor chap...
...wept as Sayed Abdul Rahman cut the orange ribbon across the tomb's doorway. Inside, a green, red and blue glass dome cast gaudy light on a glass chandelier and handsome Persian rug (the gift of Neighbor Emperor Haile Selassie). Sayed Abdul Rahman contemplated his father's inlaid sandalwood coffin, which he claimed to have found in the ruins of the old tomb last year...
...hotel drew a wide and wealthy following. General Phil Sheridan lived there, delighted by the splendor of its huge Corinthian rotunda, Italian marble staircase, ornate sparkling chandeliers and a barbershop floor inlaid with silver dollars. Potter Palmer was almost as proud of his House as he was of his wife-of whom he once said fondly: "There she stands, with $200,000 [in jewels] on her." Only once did his hotel fail him. The Infanta Eulalia of Spain cut short a visit with Mrs. Palmer, then the queen of Chicago society, because she was "the wife of an innkeeper...
There were some lean years for the firm in a land that had apparently forgotten all about ships and shipping. Gibbs & Cox designed the world's largest yacht, the Savarona, for the late Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader, equipped it as ordered with public-address system, mother-of-pearl inlaid bathrooms, gold-plated doorknobs. They also designed the Santa boats for the Grace Line. But not until the U.S. Government decided to embark on a destroyer program did Gibbs & Cox really get under...
...retain its grandeur. Perhaps she could imagine it slowly falling apart. Each year something happened to it - some dealer bought one of the great houses that nobody ever really lived in, some heir sold the crystal chandeliers, the grand pianos, the organs, the stained glass windows, the gold-inlaid bathtubs, the tapestry, the silver and the collections of classics that nobody read - until Newport grew more & more like some ancient beauty whose memory is fading, whose sight is failing and whose hearing and teeth are gone. But Tessie never anticipated what happened last week...