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...when he gets it figured, he knows what the money is being spent on. He began learning his business during his boyhood as a movie theater usher in C'eveland, and at 21 he became vice president for advertising and promotion at a nightclub called the Mayfair Casino. The bands who played there were booked in by MCA, which then literally was the Music Corporation of America, run by Jules Stein, who is now the chairman of the board. Stein, who was then 40, offered Wasserman a position with MCA. "I think I'll take the job because...
...unswerving Hatred of the 20th century's industrialized, democratized ways. From his first irrespressibly comic, murderously sar-comic novels (Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies), most of Waugh's books have vad as their real subject the loss of a golden age. Looking back, the Oxford Vlnd Mayfair targets Waugh satirized in Viene '20s and '30s have largely vanished, Baking with them half the early novels' Viumor but leaving the rage intact. After World War II he suddenly turned eariest: Brideshead Revisited is a frankly logic lament for the passing of a golden youth and innocence...
...Ascot-in a gown created by Designer Cecil Beaton, whose art nouveau sets and costumes are a splendid show in themselves-is one of those great movie moments seldom accomplished without the help of brass bands and fireworks. And Hepburn tops that when she begins describing, in precise Mayfair accents, the drunken demise of her old aunt: "Gin was mother's milk...
...Tongue in cheek, he wired Rome to "please confirm" the appointment. Thirteen years later, having become convinced that India's principal see ought to be occupied by an Indian, he resigned in favor of Valerian Gracias, and settled down at the Farm Street church in London's Mayfair...
...Elaine Dundy. A sequel in spirit to her bestselling novel, The Dud Avocado, this one is about the adventures of a gallant, galling young lady who tries, without manners or morals, to secure a place for herself in London's Mayfair society...