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...Houston, after only six weeks, elan claims 6,000 members (at a current $200 a year). Even more popular is Pistachio's, down the block from Neiman Marcus. The club ($100 a year) runs to silver, leather and Art Deco and boasts 16 computer-controlled projectors that spew an endless array of images (Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Tiffany diamonds, fire and snow) on the floor...
...recipe for guess-what. Thanks to salivating promotion, he is baking six tons of his Famous Amos cookies each week at a factory in Nutley, N.J., and his original shop on Sunset Boulevard; the chewy entremets are sold in bon ton stores from Bloomingdale's to Neiman-Marcus, J.L. Hudson's to Robinson...
Worthy returned to Boston in 1957 and attended Harvard as a Neiman Fellow, but he continued his drive to gain access to restricted countries. While he was at Harvard, a Western Union cablegram informed him that the Communist Chinese government had approved his visa application to visit Peking. He left immediately, without receiving the required State Department validation whose China policy played on the fears of uninformed Americans would never approe his trip. Worthy and two Look Magazine reporters spent 41 days in China, sending back daily reports to an enthralled public...
...Over at Neiman-Marcus, Santa's Dallas helpers noted that Bicentennial and bison had bisyllabic echoes, so why not make this the Year of the Buffalo? They have. In honor of Bicen bison and togetherness, N-M is offering a small herd of trophies ranging from rolls of 40 uncirculated buffalo nickels-minted in 1938, the last year the bison was seen on coins-at $450 each, to "nearly lifesize" stuffed synthetic bison for $700. The boffo gift for buffalo buffs: live male and female calves ($11,750 the pair) from "the first certified 100% pure-bred buffalo herd...
...Hugh still has his backers, including Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc., which invested $68 million in the House of Fraser two years ago in exchange for a 20% interest; the company also owns Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and Bergdorf Goodman of New York. From his Los Angeles office last week, Chairman Edward W. Carter said he felt "very sorry" about Fraser's personal problems but believed they had not harmed the business. Said he: "Fraser runs the company, and he does it well...