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...naughty old Paris of the turn of the century, Maxim's was a wicked wonderland. Girls with velvet names like Lolo, Dodo, Cloclo and Froufrou lolled there hoping to meet a king, a count, even a pretender, and were celebrated by Franz Lehar in his Merry Widow ("Now I'm off to Chez Maxim, where it's always so in-time"). Today the wine and the food are still among Paris' best, and there are girls there still, but they are rather a different sort. They are going to school...
...great men and women. Literally dozens of them visit the House each year, to read their poetry, or describe their last electoral campaign, or explain their ideas; guests this year have included poets Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell, Sen. Maureen Neuberger, New York's Mayor Wagner, and art collector Maxim Karolik. Almost every student in the House will have dinner with a great light such as these in the course of a year, and the food at these gatherings, thoughtfully paid for by the Ford Foundation, is heart-breakingly good...
...agreed with Getty all the way. "He's quite right to wish that," observed Elsa, "he's the dullest man that ever lived, and socially impossible." As for those good times that cost no money, Elsa recalled: "I attended a dinner party given by him at Maxim's, and he made all the people there pay for their own meal...
Truth, Not Profit. Lubalin is not the only one who has donated his talent to the New Leader. Following the maxim of the late executive editor Samuel M. ("Sol") Levitas, "Don't expect to profit from the truth," Kolatch tries to pay younger contributors $25 to $50 an article, but he can still count on snagging the likes of exiled Spanish Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga, Economist Adolf A. Berle and Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr for nothing...
...FRENCH PAVILION will consist mainly of three buildings looking like a children's game in their pure geometrical forms: a rectangle housing Maxim's restaurant, an immense egg-shaped ellipsoid (the largest structural ellipse ever built), which will shelter a 1,500-seat theater for the Folies-Bergére, and a pyramid in which visitors will view "The Treasures of Versailles," a huge collection of paintings and art objects...