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...poor to function in this process as a sacred ministry of leveller priests on the assembly line. Ferrying the executives across the Styx which we call be many names--Hudson, East, Cuyahoga, Detroit, Los Angeles, or Bay; ferrying souls from West Point or the East side or poshest Cleveland or plushest Bloomfield Hills, or from the splendors of Westwood or Nob Bill, ferried in radial punctureproof silence to those lushest immortal gardens of bones which match each heavenly city of America. Whatever the name they are all Forests of Yawns, Kingdoms of Yawns, the end of Dawns. Terminals...
...champion, named after a stop on a suburban rail line-bring 7,000 participants into their act. While the poor flood into the limelight, the rich and the middle class either leave town or amuse themselves at exclusive balls. Individual tickets for the Municipal Theater Ball, the poshest of them all, run to $50, a box for eight to $3,750. The revelers arrive in psychedelic splendor, shed most of their clothes during the night, and emerge in the early morning, after hours of dancing, in bikinis, swimming trunks and sarongs...
What happens off the premises, however, may be something else. Some of the 155 hosts keep expensive apartments in Tokyo's poshest districts. At least one commutes to work in a Mus tang, which retails for $10,000 in Japan. Through tips, a few make as much as $900 a month, but usually for working later than the clubs' 6-to-ll:30 p.m. hours. Despite the rules, hosts sometimes leave arm-in-arm with their clients at closing time. "Ladies have just as much right as men to decide what to do for the rest...
...Reed? Yes indeed. The young man who wrote all those scandalous things in Esquire, the New York Times and elsewhere about Ava Gardner, Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, Sandy Dennis and Lester Maddox is the Now Kid, the jet set's latest instant celebrity -seen at the poshest places, invited to the nicest parties, cajoled by the sweetest people...
Toupees, Tints. One of the poshest tonsorial emporiums in Manhattan is "Christopher Joyce," on Madison Avenue...