Word: pagliais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...duenna of young lovers, Actress Merle Oberon, 47, has been a smashing success. Look what happened after she chaperoned Frankie and Mia. Now Merle and her husband, Industrialist Bruno Pagliai, have another pair to encourage: Lynda Bird Johnson, 22, and George Hamilton, 27, who flew to Acapulco to spend a private vacation at the Pagliais' seaside villa. A small army of reporters and photographers besieged the villa, and another army of guards kept the newsmen at bay. A truce was arranged, with George assembling the press and laying down the ground rules. "There will be no answer...
...George visited Manhattan. One night they dined at "21," attended a penthouse party for Actress Ruth Ford after her Broadway opening in Dinner at Eight, then danced until 1 a.m. at El Morocco. Another evening they dined at Orsini's with Actress Merle Oberon, her husband Bruno Pagliai, and the Henry Fords, afterward returned to El Morocco...
...Bruno Pagliai-Merle Oberon, that is-padded prettily across the rug, with its fanciful design of chimpanzee, parrot and elephant, on her way to the telephone ringing in the bookcase behind a Chinese print. "Yes, darling, I know," she cooed happily. "They say the weather is simply frightful just about everywhere in the world...
...houses of Acapulco's new jet-setters, like Merle Pagliai's gleaming white villa, are almost all on the eastward side of the bay. This places them away from the older, shabbier part of the harbor town, with its cluster of old streets and peninsula boulevard busy with buses and horse-drawn surreys. Developed haphazardly, with a strong flavor of claptrap and ticky-tacky, the magnificent sweep of beaches has seen the tide of tourism rise, then ebb. Now it is rising again, to fill the well-appointed hotels for the average tourist -El Presidente, Acapulco Hilton...
Acquisitive Urge. Pagliai lives like the fiscal prince that he is. His showplace home in suburban Mexico City is a white brick Georgian mansion, graced with 14 live-in servants and 50 imported Italian umbrella cypresses planted in holes blasted into lava rock. Besides collecting pesos, he acquires Dresden figurines, Chinese jade, Venetian glass and ancient Spanish books that he often pores over until 2 a.m. His house also shelters Mexico's most distinguished selection of wines (7,000 bottles) and its finest private art collection-El Greco, Botticelli, Van Dyck, Dali, Diego Rivera-as well as Pagliai...