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...only drool at the accumulations of Egyptian sculpture, Louis XV and XVI furniture, Sevres porcelain, 16th century enamelware, and wall upon wall of Goyas, Rubenses, Watteaus and Fragonards. When Philippe and Pauline have tea, their dog Bicouille is sometimes served a snack off an aluminum dish placed upon a napkin spread over their expensive rugs. Says Pauline: "We are fortunate, of course, in that we can take ten or twelve servants when we travel, and thus can have things done the way we like them wherever...
...Drinkwater is a shrewd airman who has lifted his line from a $945,000 loss in 1947, when he took it over, to earnings of $7,278,000 tor the first nine months of 1963. While he introduced such imaginative sales devices as the champagne flight and the napkin with a button hole, Drinkwater is fundamentally an efficiency expert. "We're great disciples of Mr. Parkinson," pipes Drinkwater, boasting that there are only three levels of supervision from his own job down to the mechanic servicing a plane outside his window. Though Western's routes span from Calgary...
...office, away from those protective family ties, Dad is visualized as a slack-jawed spendthrift with a will of tin foil. Loving ones may keep him out of expensive restaurants with a $4.25 Executive Lunch Bag (including place mat and matching napkin). There is also a do-it-yourself shoeshine kit for $5.95, disguised as a statusful French phone, with a hand bank built in to hold the money the man saves for his family with his elbow grease. And to help the will-less fellow cut down his smoking, there is a cigarette case with a time lock that...
...Brown Palace Hotel in Denver last week, a bearded ecclesiastic startled the desk clerk by trying to get change for a napkin-sized, 1914-era $100 bill, given to him, he explained, by his grandmother. The well-heeled visitor was one of 16 Russian church leaders who showed up at the National Council of Churches' General Board meeting, to be greeted coldly by some protesting right-wing fundamentalists and warmly by two of the nation's most prestigious Protestants: J. Irwin Miller, layman president of the council and Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian...
Reluctant Donation. Had it not been for a sore throat, Green Bay might still be just the paper napkin capital of the U.S. In 1918, Earl Louis Lambeau, a tousleheaded Notre Dame fullback and a disciple of Knute Rockne, came home to Green Bay to have his tonsils removed, stayed on as a $250-a-month shipping clerk at the Indian Packing Co. "Curly" Lambeau liked his job, but he still pined to play football. Within the year, he scraped up $500 to start a professional team. By naming his motley squad the Packers, Curly persuaded his reluctant employers...