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There were also the inevitable social contretemps. Publisher Walter Annenberg, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, asked seven Americans, including Gerald and Betty Ford, to lunch with the royals at Sunnylands, his zillion-dollar spread near Palm Springs. "For every two friends you invite," Annenberg said, "you make 50 enemies." Hundreds of Southern California somebodies were upset about not being invited to Sunday night's 500-person bash on a Los Angeles movie sound stage. Nancy Reagan was hostess, and the President's pal Frank Sinatra rounded up the entertainment (Ed McMahon, Perry...
Next Sunday they will fly from San Diego to Palm Springs to have lunch at the desert estate of former U.S. Ambassador to Britain Walter Annenberg. In San Francisco, they will sip champagne while listening to Tony Bennett (a royal favorite) croon where he left his heart and Mary Martin trill Getting to Know You (which she already does). They will also make a side trip to the Reagan ranch, near Santa Barbara, for barbecue ribs and riding-English-style for the Queen and hopalong Ron, western for Nancy. The Queen and Philip will help the Reagans celebrate their 31st...
...months since People Express started up, its home base-a former freight terminal-has become the busiest gateway at Newark International Airport, some 13 miles southwest of New York City. Flying passengers between cities from Boston to Palm Beach and as far west as Columbus, the pint-size airline earned a profit of $27 million in the first nine months of 1982, while the likes of Pan Am, Eastern and TWA were all showing losses. People's progress is mainly due to the lowest operating costs in the business, an average of 5.3? per seat per mile flown...
Meanwhile, in the desert near Palm Springs, Calif., at the edge of the San Jacinto Mountains, where Hubbard once stalked the sands wearing a cowboy hat, cursing and yelling as he directed Scientology films, security is tight. Guards at the Gilman retreat scrutinize cars moving along a highway past a black iron gate, and security men range amid the cactus, chattering into walkie-talkies. There is a sign that says GOLDEN ERA STUDIOS. The only visible reminder of the former presence is a bronze plaque on a replica of a ship's deck. It is dedicated...
Quennell was fascinated by Greta Garbo, whose beauty "was at times a burden-a valuable but perishable gift, like a magic snowball, held in the palm of the hand, that is bound to melt away." But he adds: "Beauty to be entirely irresistible should be observed across a gulf." The author has been married five times, in each case to a ravishing beauty...