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...American Express's President Reed doesn't read his own pamphlets on tourist etiquette. He advises tourists to be "ambassadors of good will" and, you say, realizes that Americans do not endear themselves to foreigners by spending money. Yet he rollicks through Germany and Italy in a plush, private railway car, and tries to prime the British economy with his lavish gratuities. MAURICE H. OPPENHEIM Mannheim, Germany...
Does Curtice use that shiny goboon? It's quite out of character with the plush surroundings...
...plush-lined Cadillac of the rails, the Aerotrain was designed more like a stripped-down Chevvy. The 40-passenger coach weighs only 16 tons, v. 65 tons for an 80-passenger conventional coach. Construction costs were kept down by using G.M. components already in production, e.g., coach side panels and air bellows suspension were lifted from the bus G.M. makes for Greyhound. Result: the entire ten-coach train and engine can be mass-produced for an estimated $600,000, v. $1,700,000 for a conventional train...
Artistic taste today is likely to dismiss Painter John Singer Sargent as briskly as it does that whole great clutter of heavy gilt frames, dusty plush draperies and ornate grandeurs that marked his vanished era. It is only 30 years since Sargent died, half a century since the Edwardian peak of his fame; yet the interval can hardly be measured by years alone. Just how far and fast fashions have changed since Sargent's day could best be seen this week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, celebrating the centennial of the painter's birth with...
...opening night, with the French interested in a film-exchange deal, the week got an impressive official sendoff. The plush Normandie Theater on the Champs Elysees was flanked by rows of Gardes Republicans in scarlet-trimmed uniforms. The band blared the Marseillaise and the Internationale, and into the theater flocked French and Russian officials with a cluster of bejeweled Soviet film stars who were long on furs and high on necklines...