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...made arrangements to fly to Akron to visit an old friend, Industrialist Nathan Cummings. Regrettably, the day he chose turned out to be his 32nd wedding anniversary. Still, appointments must be kept, so the duke flew off as scheduled to tour Cummings' Lawson Milk plant and address a luncheon gathering at Silver Lake Country Club. Said he, ruefully, "The duchess took a dim view of my leaving her alone on this special day." Then he hurried back to Manhattan with a gift of atonement: 32 containers of Lawson's ice cream, each a different flavor...
Ellman frankly concedes that his restaurants are not for gourmets-"We appeal to graduates of Howard Johnson's," he says-and that the appeal is frankly directed at the customers' venality. At Charles, there is free champagne; at the Steer Palace, a weekend "family plan" luncheon at which parents with children get the first child's meal free (even if it is a $6 sirloin steak), the second's for $1 and all others' for half price. Dinner, dancing and "all the drinks you can drink" for $9.95 is the bill of fare...
Senior Editor Peter Bird Martin traveled to Majorca to meet the man himself. Martin missed a connection in London and arrived at Villa Fielding a day late. "I got there in the middle of a luncheon Nancy Fielding and her husband had arranged for the TIME team," says Martin. "Our correspondent, Gavin Scott, and Photographer Ben Martin were already there, awash in the famed Fielding charm. I had to keep reminding myself that however much we liked him, we also had to evaluate his book." For Martin, the most memorable moment of the visit was reached at dinner, when Fielding...
Rome. Piccolo Mondo, two blocks from the Via Veneto, at 39 Via Aurora. A favorite hangout of movie people, so it is tops for that great American game of celebrity watching. A typical luncheon might consist of bucatini alia a matriciana (tubes of pasta in a sauce of tomatoes and bacon), trout au gratin, and a dessert of torta St. Honore. With house wine, service and cover, the bill will come...
...last month's Tonight Show guest hosts, Bill Cosby and Jerry Lewis, made public apologies for ill-received wisecracks, which had nothing to do with sex or violence. At the N.A.B. convention, the industry's nervous mood was apotheosized by one Catholic priest who, in a luncheon invocation, prayed that God sympathize with "oppressed broadcasters-accused of aiding and abetting materialism, perversion, violence and crime...