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...life. I became the personification of the prototype that I was describing in the magazine. I became, in effect, Mr. Playboy. I started smoking a pipe. I bought a Mercedes-Benz 300SL--the coolest car. I hosted a syndicated TV show called Playboy's Penthouse, bought the first Playboy mansion and opened the first Playboy Club. In the space of a year, I became world famous...
...supposed conspiracy came to light in the wake of a series of fires that destroyed several buildings, including the governor’s mansion. Even in a city of wooden houses that was—both literally and figuratively—a tinderbox, the number and frequency of the blazes sparked anxiety. And then a slave was caught running from the scene of one fire, and wary New Yorkers–who read all about slave revolts in the Caribbean and South Carolina–began to cry, “The Negroes are rising!” Blacks...
...eight confident-looking young female musicians on horseback attests to their near-equal status with men.The renovation gives the Cernuschi more exhibition space, a new seminar room, improved lighting, state-of-the art display cases and other requisites of a modern museum. Yet elegant details of the 19th century mansion remain: oak parquet floors, decorative ceiling moldings and the original majestic staircase that leads to an upper-floor gallery decorated with bronze Japanese animals. Cernuschi's smoking room, too, has been recreated as a memorial...
...motivated by aesthetic as well as functional concerns. The serving areas were entirely redesigned in the style of the Houses—Mather’s retains the feel of modern architecture while Dunster’s was designed to “look like someone’s mansion down in Newport, R.I.,” Snyder said...
...siblings spent their time taking in the sights of L.A. and relishing the party scene that accompanied the award show. They were especially coy about a bash that took place at the infamous Playboy Mansion...