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...severest test of the novel reader is not the interior-decorating lady author whose every point is petit; nor is it the literary bedroom peeper of the huff-puff-periphrasis school ("Metaphor pounded at his temples and his heart swelled with simile"). The most egregious trier of patience is, surely, the Author Who Has Read Proust. He will send his hero into the kitchen to mix a drink, say, but sure as Remembrance of Things Past comes in seven volumes, the ice tray wall remind the hero of another, earlier ice tray, half-shrouded in the mists of memory...
Swimming on Wednesday. The pavilion, which has four bedrooms on the upper levels (reached by gentle ramps instead of stairs), a dining room, a petit salon, an office and a kitchen in addition to the main reception room on the main floor, is really an island in the midst of a gushing stream. Icy water from melted mountain snow burbles beside the driveway, continues through the house in blue and gold glazed tile channels, tumbling over alabaster barriers and out into the garden. The chilled water is also used to air-condition the house in summer, must be heated before...
...take. The Emperor Tiberius, for one. used to beat the Roman heat on the cliffs of Capri, where some of the house guests at his verdant Villa Jovis were said to have disappeared into the sea below. Perhaps the most famed second house of all is the exquisite Petit Trianon, begun by Louis XV for his mistress. Madame de Pompadour, and elaborated by Louis XVI's wife, Marie Antoinette. From the punkah-hung summer bungalows of Darjeeling to the marble "cottages" of 19th century Newport (where a four-bedroom, two-bath apartment has been fitted into what was once...
...Well," sighed one tape watcher in the Beverly Hills office of Ira Haupt & Co., "now I've got 30% less than I had last Friday." A young Chicago couple stared glumly at their living room wall, where a petit point sampler proclaimed "God Bless Fairchild Camera." Across the land, 15 million investors reluctantly emerged from a dreamland of perpetual capital gains and grimly focused their attention on the citadel of U.S. capitalism at Broad and Wall Streets in lower Manhattan...
Died. May Bonfils Stanton, eightyish, elder daughter of the Denver Post's late Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils, who fell out with her father over her first marriage, lived much of her life in semi-seclusion in a 20-room marble copy of Marie Antoinette's Petit Trianon, and pursued a 30-year feud with her younger sister-and current Post boss-Helen Bonfils Davis with such intensity that the Post was not even informed of May's death, got scooped on the obituary by the rival Rocky Mountain News; after a long illness; in Denver...