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...Gold Showroom in Paris featuring one of the gold-plated Daimlers. As the idea grew, so did the expense, until finally Lady Docker simply had to have some gear to go with it: a gold-plated dress, a mink cape and a mink-trimmed hat. The outfit cost $20,-ooo but, said Lady Docker: "Since I was doing nothing more than acting as a model, I decided to charge it against tax." When the tax people objected, Sir Bernard tried to bill B.S.A. B.S.A. also objected, and finally Sir Bernard paid for the rig himself, but the incident rankled...
...Spot. In Dumont, N.J., three days after veteran Fireman John Carey was named chairman of a drive to raise $35,-ooo to build a new firehouse, he was arrested on charges of burning the old firehouse to the ground...
...room hotels are going up near San Juan to help the 300-room, 99%-occupied Caribe Hilton handle the expected $75 million-a-year tourist traffic. Laurance Rockefeller is putting $1,000,-ooo into a 72-room luxury hotel with an 18-hole golf course designed by famed Golf Architect Robert Trent Jones. And all over the island are the new factories...
...first on long-term leasing of car and truck fleets to business firms, it will move into hourly and daily rentals to individuals early this summer. The twelve-month goal of Greyhound's new president, ex-Railroader Arthur S. Genet (TIME, Nov. 14), is a fleet of 10,-ooo cars and trucks, third largest in the rental business...
...glacial tones can make a hardened hoodlum jump to attention. One fine morning, Jennifer gets a pain in her back and. as she awaits medical attention, launches into the first of a series of flashbacks that show her renouncing her true love (she has to pay back some $11,-ooo her ever-loving daddy embezzled), helping a Polish immigrant to learn English and grow up to write bad plays, rescuing the underprivileged boy from across the tracks, and airily saving the town bank from failing during the Depression. Actress Jones seems to have a fine time portraying the exemplar...