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...gone to Beirut, or Beverly Hills, or some place; she's not here; she's never coming; she never has been here, neither has he"). Always there are people, deposited by misfortune on the wrong block, who stumble bewilderedly down theater row, wondering aloud whether Mme. Nhu is back in town or what? But they are adventuresome souls and queue up anyway. The crowd is pushing 3,000, and each other...
DISCOVERY (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Repeat of the second part of a visit to London, including Westminster Abbey, Mme. Tussaud's, the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, and a chat with Leslie Caron...
...look chic, Jeanne," said Mme. Georges Pompidou, wife of France's Prime Minister, to the milkmaid at the Pompidous' country place. Jeanne was indeed a fetching sight: gold sandals, gay striped frock in the latest mode, gleaming pearl fingertips. "Merci, madame," replied Jeanne. Then she explained how a farmer's daughter so far from Paris could keep up so surely with style changes: "I read Elle...
...Mme. Pompidou also reads Elle. So does Mme. Charles de Gaulle. So do 800,000 other French women every week. The numbers justify a popular saying: "Si elle lit elle lit Elle (If she reads, she reads Elle)." And so, of course, do all the arbiters, pace setters and proprietors of Parisian haute couture, the people whose very names spell female elegance around the world: Chanel, Givenchy, St. Laurent, Balenciaga, Dior, Courrèges. None of them stand higher in the world of high fashion than Hélène Gordon Lazareff, 56, the tiny, self-assured, golden-haired...
...from the salons to the boulevards until Hélène had endorsed it in the pages of her magazine. The parfum house of Chanel, which folded its fashion line in 1940, returned to eminence in 1956 via the same route. "Coco would eventually have launched herself," says Mme. Lazareff modestly, "but we first explained why it wasn't obvious how chic she is." "Everything that goes into the magazine," says Helene Lazareff, "I must like myself. I would rather go astray doing something too far out than to be too conservative. I don't worry about...