Word: onassisism
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"Tell why!" says Leonard Bernstein. . . . Lenny is on the move. As more than one person in this room knows, Lenny treasures "the art of conversation." He treasures it, monopolizes it, conglomerates it, like a Jay Gould, an Onassis, a Cornfeld of Conversation. Anyone who has spent a three-day weekend...
"I think I'm Onassis' best friend, and he's mine," said Diva Maria Callas, who descended on New York City and told Women's Wear Daily a thing or three. About her best friend's wife: "I'm bored with all the nonsense...
The slump, plus vigorous competition from suburban shopping centers and discount chains like E.J. Korvette and Great Eastern, has led to the extinction of some older stores in the central city. San Francisco's H. Liebes & Co., a women's specialty shop that opened more than a century...
IN Pine Bluff, Ark., she was an average Middle American high school girl. In wartime Washington, or postwar Forest Hills, or more recently in establishmentarian, suburban Rye, N.Y., she was little more than part of the background?not spectacular, not social, not smart?and only dimly remembered by her neighbors...
Even so, the outlines of the empire can be discerned through the camouflage with which Ludwig obscures his activities. The six principal divisions: SHIPPING. Ludwig's 59 oceangoing ships include the six biggest tankers afloat, each more than 326,000 deadweight tons. In all, Ludwig has some 5,000...