Word: porcelain
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...fairly girlish and unformed 19 when she married Pat Nugent, Tricia Nixon, at 25, is a young lady of high, imperious and sometimes mysterious definition. Whatever the lollipop image her Buster Brown hats and patent shoes may have given her, Tricia is a cool, self-possessed woman with a porcelain near beauty and a talent for conservative mots. Some detect in her a steely if youthful combination of the manner of Grace Kelly and the views, not so oft expressed, of Martha Mitchell. And, of course, a psychogenetic blend of Pat and Richard Nixon...
...John Adams, great-grandfather of the author, who wrote in 1780: "I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy ... in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain." He did not forecast the next curriculum...
...away with the slime, the stench and the wanton slaughter of that noblest of human conflicts, World War I. Nostalgia is like Marie Antoinette, who commissioned the finest artists and architects of France to build eight picturesque peasant farms beside her Petit Trianon. They were perfect-right down to porcelain vases from Sevres used for milking the cows. Nostalgia selects only what is agreeable, and even that it distorts or turns into myth...
...American. Munich Auctioneer Count Arnhard Klenau von Klenova, who conducted last week's sale, claims to know of at least 200 American collectors. In his Hollywood home, Bob Hope has books with Hitler's name plate, several sheets of Hitler's personal stationery and a porcelain dinner plate inscribed "Kanzlei des Führers" (Führer's Chancellery), which Hope acquired while entertaining troops in Germany in 1945. The West Point archives, says the count, are also searching for relics. "Though I personally know only a very small portion of our regular customers," adds Klenau...
...spur to liquor sales, boosted sales all right, but not just by drinkers. The bottles turned out to be every bit as intoxicating, so much so that a company called Grenadier is now in business primarily to serve "the Connoisseur Collector with the finest examples of porcelain soldier figurines [bottles] available anywhere in the U.S." Moreover, unlike their contents, the bottles have a long-term value: Jim Beam's hapless gambler, clad only in top hat and barrel, sold in 1958 for $8 filled; today, empty, it commands at least...