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Other designers have also drawn double baths. The 1966 Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalogue, for example, portrayed a "His and Hers Bathtub" complete with lacquered wood base, marble top and backboard, and gold-plated faucets. But it was more twin than double; the tubs were separate, merely welded together, and cost $4,000, plus tax, shipping and installation. Godfrey Bonsack sniffs at the very idea. "If you can't even agree on the same water temperature," he says, "you shouldn't have a bath together...
...Treyz-not exactly a household word, except at the White Household, where the 66-year-old Westchester County woman is as familiar a mainstay as the North Portico. Pat Nixon is not the first First Lady Clara Treyz has helped dress: Lady Bird Johnson became client No. 1 when Neiman Marcus President Stanley Marcus introduced her to Miss Treyz, a longtime and highly valued consultant to his store. It was only a hop, skip and a new Administration to her current post with Mrs. Nixon...
...town (Sherman) so small it no longer exists, and schooled in Middletown, N.Y., with two years at Syracuse University, she put in a short stint as a clerical worker in a Manhattan bank before going West-to Seventh Avenue. First came buying and retailing, and then fashion consulting for Neiman Marcus' New York outlet. Married for 33 years to Christian Science Practitioner Frank Geisler, she dropped out of the fashion business for a while, but felt "superfluous, a nobody." Now, with 15 suburban women besides Mrs. Nixon to shop for, she finds her work more than satisfying. "A privilege...
...store's three dungeon-like underground levels, fighting for everything from name-brand nylon panties at 39? a pair to a Russian sable worth $8,500 and a positive steal at $3,000. As the outlet for surplus stock from such fashionable stores as Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus and I. Magnin, the basement has become the happy hunting ground for Beacon Hill dowagers and Charlestown secretaries-all trading hip blocks with shoppers who regularly fly in from New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and as far west as Chicago...
...Fair. They had two children, Damon and Tahnee. Raquel the housewife interspersed domestic chores with dramatics classes at San Diego State College, and soon grew restive. After three years, the Welches parted?"inevitably," Welch now feels. Raquel headed for Dallas, where she made enough money modeling for Neiman-Marcus and hustling cocktails to have her nose fixed before assaulting Hollywood...