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Then, as the comrades glared, Mannu disappeared into a shop, bought some rubber-soled shoes, a green necktie, a scarf, and a hat like the one he had admired in an American movie. He tipped the shopgirl $3, promenaded off with 25 friends to a lunch of lobster & champagne. He said that henceforth he would drink beer with his meals, travel only by plane. Then he flew off for Rome...
...King Gustaf of Sweden, 91, and his brothers, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, 90, and Prince Carl, 88, threw caution to the winds at a birthday party for Oscar in Stockholm's Drottningholm Castle. Abandoning their rigid spartan diet, they gorged themselves on a few favorite dishes of their youth: lobster American, goose liver, partridge, champagne, ice cream...
...with the severe regimen of a Sadler's Wells ballerina-an endless round of class, rehearsals and performances-the champagne & lobster life comes only once in a blue moon. Margot would be among the first to agree with Frederick Ashton that "being a ballerina is like being a nun; it is a dedication...
Tourists eat well in Newfoundland. The main fare is steak, lamb, salmon or lobster, but there are also such piquant island specialties as seal-flipper pie, smoked caplin (a smeltlike fish), fried cod tongues, and gamy saltwater bird. For dessert, there are blueberries, tart partridge berries, and amber-hued bakeapple berries, topped with thick cream. Strictly for strong stomachs is the Sunday morning breakfast of fish and brewis (boiled hardtack) with pork cracklings...
Swarthy, suave Alberto Dodero knew what he wanted to do with his money. He bought a yacht, a plane, a fleet of cars, elaborate homes near Buenos Aires and Montevideo, in New York, London, Paris and Cannes. He entertained like a Croesus, invited scores of guests for a lobster supper as casually as he brought five kilos of white truffles from Rome. During summers on the Riviera he spent an estimated $50,000 a week for entertainment. He had a sharp eye-as well as the gifts of a Santa Claus-for pretty women. He has been twice married...