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Useful Anecdotes. Until 1922, when he was 17, Shirley Lewis Povich's chief claim to renown rested on the fact that he celebrated his bar mitzvah in Bar Harbor, Me. His parents were the only Orthodox Jewish family in the posh town. That summer Shirley caddied so well for the vacationing E. B. McLean that McLean took him back to Washington with him, paid him $20 a week to caddy and another $15 a week as a copy boy at the Washington Post, which McLean happened to own. By the age of 20, Povich was the Post...
...about it is Barbuda, an 18th century slave-breeding ground 15 miles long by about five wide, with one hotel called Coco Point Lodge, where Britain's Princess Margaret came on her honeymoon to stay two days, and lingered on for five. Ten-room Coco Point is so posh that its staff has a staff, quartered in a separate building, and for $85 a day the management will provide a couple with everything, including riding, hunting, fishing, and diving among the 70 known wrecks around the island...
...tend to accept the widespread taunt that "corruption" and "colonel" are synonymous. The officers have houses, cars, pensions, and a high standard of living to maintain. At the recent Asian games, one army colonel was arrested for embezzling $45,000 in ticket sales. Another colonel reportedly helicoptered over a posh Djkarta suburb, picked out a house he liked, alighted near by and ordered the tenants to clear...
...beauty even in explosions," intoned flamboyant Jewelry Designer Roger King, 26, whose flashy $3,400 brooch suggesting an A-bomb blast (mushrooms of diamonds rising from a ruby earth) won Britain's "Jewel of the Year" award. Then glaring out at of the the audience in a posh London showroom where his nuclear nugget was on display, King dropped another wee bomb by deploring "the tendency of upper-class women to wear dreary strands of pearls all the time." Totally unruffled was the conservatively dressed, pearl-wearing woman at whom his remarks were aimed: Lady Dorothy Macmillan, wife...
...Manhattan, Macy's set up a special wig department, which was jammed with more than 1,000 women a day clamoring for synthetic (all-Dynel) wigs, at $49.50. Helena Rubinstein christened a posh new room the Wig-Wig. Max Miller, president of the Joseph Fleischer custom wig company, opened ten new consulting rooms to handle the flood of buyers. Max Factor in Hollywood had to set up folding chairs in the halls to handle capacity crowds. The Elizabeth Arden Salon in Chicago extended its usual three-week wait on wig orders to two months...