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...month, he "entered into an oral agreement with his daughter Tricia," who was then 22. (At 21, Tricia had received the proceeds of a trust fund that had been given to her nine years earlier by Nixon's wealthy friend Elmer Bobst, then the chairman of the Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical company.) Tricia lent her father $20,000 for purchase of the Florida property, and Nixon promised to repay her that amount plus 40% of whatever profits he might make. On Dec. 28, 1972, Nixon sold the property for $150,000, making a profit of almost 300% on his investment...
...head for a floor show and supper in the now-termite-infested palace. Of course, the servants must be bewigged, the brocade and baubles as abundant as in the days of Louis and Marie. And so it was last week, thanks to a whim of American Fashion Publicist Eleanor Lambert...
While summering in France, Lambert told Gerald van der Kemp, curator of Versailles, that it would be "so nice" if American designers could get some more exposure in France. Why not a joint showing with their French counterparts? Why not indeed, said Van der Kemp, who proposed that the royal palace, which needs restoration, be both the site and the beneficiary...
...GAVIN LAMBERT...
Screenwriter-Novelist Gavin Lambert tells this short history of Gone With the Wind in a level, intelligent prose that contrasts nicely with his extravagant subject. He concentrates upon Selznick, an obsessive perfectionist who brought off the film in spite of the collective industry opinion that regarded it as "Selznick's Folly." Sometimes his conferences would last 48 hours, nonstop. He went through four directors and scriptwriters like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ben Hecht. When the Screen Extras Guild produced only 1,500 bodies to represent the Confederate wounded at the Atlanta Railroad Station, Selznick violated union rules by ordering...