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...types were offered: Rjanog, a sour rye, and Borodinsky, a sweeter bread - flavored with coriander. The so-called peace bread was also being offered to customers at the posh Waldorf-Astoria hotel and the Russian Tea Room. U.S. entrepreneur Fred Kayden arranged the imports after 7 1/2 months of negotiations with Soviet officials and a "perestroika entrepreneur" in Moscow. But Kayden may not have a black-bread monopoly for long. Zaro's Bread Basket, a New York City bakery chain, plans to start selling imported Soviet bread for $5 a loaf. Would Muscovites pay that kind of price for Wonder...
...star orgy where a naked gent, thought to be film director and Prime Minister's son Anthony Asquith, implored guests to beat him . . . Osteopath and artist Stephen Ward, whose portrait subjects include eight members of the Royal Family, has been charged with pimping Keeler and Rice- Davies to his posh friends. Part of Ward's bail was reportedly posted by young financier Claus von Bulow...
...American law is sometimes longer than many lawbreakers imagine, and last week it reached around the world to seize two very different suspects. At the request of the U.S., Swiss authorities went to the posh Schweizerhof Hotel in Bern and arrested Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi millionaire and arms dealer implicated in the Iran-contra scandal. Khashoggi is wanted in New York City on racketeering charges stemming from real estate dealings involving former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos...
...first ads for TV sets showed elegantly dressed models watching in posh surroundings, and often contained practical advice. ("Should the room in which you are viewing television be darkened to resemble a movie theater? Answer: Definitely not!") But soon the marketers of TV had a brainstorm: promoting the new device as a way of bringing the family together again. "There is great happiness," exulted an ad for DuMont sets, "in the home where the family is held together by this new common bond -- television." Another promotional piece listed the things that "took the family away from home" -- including baseball, vaudeville...
...designed by Stanford White) where ragtimers Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake lived. The homes of two earlier, more antagonistic Harlemites are open to the public: the Morris-Jumel mansion, once the home of Aaron Burr, and Hamilton Grange, the last abode of Alexander Hamilton. Near the Grange on still posh Sugar Hill is a quiet riot of Tudor and Romanesque residences that shelter the faculty of City University. Around the corner is Harlem's favorite archival trove, Aunt Len's Doll and Toy Museum, where Lenon Holder Hoyte, 83, will show off her collection of more than 5,000 dolls...