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Monnet's Paris headquarters, where he works with only six fulltime assistants, is a four-room apartment at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne, but it is a priority stop for visiting politicians, trade unionists, government officials from both Europe and the U.S. Dutch-born Max Kohnstamm, the committee's vice president and a longtime Monnet assistant, compares the operation with the committees of correspondence in America's struggle for independence. Monnet says quietly: "I don't have an official position. I have influence." He likes to add a quotation from a somewhat remote source...
Dangerous Declaration. King Spyros was not actually fired last week. He was merely forced to take a giant cut in salary (down to a bony $50,000 a year) and a total loss of power. Who will succeed him? Among the first names circled were Max Youngstein, now working as a vice president of Cinerama, and James Aubrey, president of CBS Television. Aubrey is a cold financial conservative who asks only what he can do for his company, whereas Skouras once declared expansively: "I would like to do for Los Angeles what the Rockefellers did for New York." If Aubrey...
...Manhattan, Macy's set up a special wig department, which was jammed with more than 1,000 women a day clamoring for synthetic (all-Dynel) wigs, at $49.50. Helena Rubinstein christened a posh new room the Wig-Wig. Max Miller, president of the Joseph Fleischer custom wig company, opened ten new consulting rooms to handle the flood of buyers. Max Factor in Hollywood had to set up folding chairs in the halls to handle capacity crowds. The Elizabeth Arden Salon in Chicago extended its usual three-week wait on wig orders to two months...
...TIME are now busy helping to launch a soft-cover book club called the TIME Reading Program, with Max Gissen as editor...
...Post debut, Mrs. Javits exhibited an interest in gastronomy and fashion that the paper's readers, more accustomed to the naked dialectics of such columnists as Murray Kempton, James Wechsler and Max Lerner. may take some time getting used to. "For hors d'oeuvres," wrote Mrs. Javits, describing the table she laid for some visitors, "I served eggplant caviar on tiny rounds of toasted bread. Lunch began with quiche Lorraine, with special homemade puff-dough cheese sticks, followed by a main course of cold jellied boeuf . . . You can understand why neither the Senator nor I could eat dinner...