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...President's good friends Columnist Joe Alsop and the Chattanooga Times's Charlie Bartlett, which detailed Bowles's difficulties. The stories, plus the lunch, could only mean he was being fired. As soon as he got sore, Bowles proved to be no pushover. With familiar Madison Avenue skill, he and his pals leaked a spate of stories on the sinister plot to send him into exile. Their catchy, if misleading pitch: "It will be a curious result if the first head to roll after the Cuban affair is the head of the man who opposed...
Unlike two other famous Manhattan business streets. Madison Avenue and Wall Street, West 47th is virtually a closed corporation-except to men with relatives in the trade. "A man's knowledge is his livelihood," explains Dealer David Ruff. "You make a decision a minute, and it's easy to make a costly mistake." Most wholesale dealers have small shops, sell at a 5% or 7% markup, employ brokers who do the actual leg work for a 1% or 2% commission. Nearly 80% of the West 47th Street trade is wholesale, but there is also a thriving retail business...
Private Paper. Other occupants of the White House may have been eminently satisfied with its Board Room Baroque décor of overstuffed sofas and roomy leather chairs. Not Jackie. Determined to make her new home a "period house" crammed with such artifacts as James Madison's medicine chest and Andrew Jackson's inkwell, Jackie formed a Fine Arts Committee to help her transform the White House into a "museum of our country's heritage." Rich committee members put up the cost of the antiques out of their own pockets. As thousands of letters poured into Washington...
Donated to the White House was furniture once owned by George Washington, James and Dolly Madison, James Monroe, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln. While rummaging through a London antique shop, a committee member found some period wallpaper decorated with Revolutionary War scenes; it will be used to paper Jackie's private dining room. Mrs. Albert Lasker gave the committee a marble bust of George Washington, and a jowly, side-burned bust of Martin Van Buren was discovered in storage. Treasury Secretary and Mrs. Douglas Dillon chipped in with a roomful of Empire furniture including a mahogany...
Laissez Nous Faire. These are the contours of U.S. history as seen by Williams: from colonial days on, the American experience has been determined, broadly, by good guys and greedy guys. The good ones, notably John Adams, James Madison and John Calhoun, sought to establish a "corporate Christian commonwealth," in which all could prosper while restraining the greed of the few. Unfortunately, even the good guys were not willing to give up private property...