Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else. One story, angrily denied by the palace, had it that Charles found his $2.80-a-term allowance so inadequate that he sold his autograph to augment it. There were dietary problems. Once, after a stomach upset, he told a teacher that he was "not used to all this rich food at home...
Into something rich and strange...
Such animosity does not keep her from all the best parties, a rich source of Hollywood dirt, and she does not let her readers forget it. "You sort of get the impression that most parties Joyce writes about are being given for her," says one student of her column. "Not that she thinks so, but so many people are coming up to her to say this or that or sitting next to her (Joyce does not sit next to people; they sit next to her) that you get the feeling she must be the most important person there...
Keeshan maintained Magnin's charm while spreading out-he added five stores-and opening some rich new merchandising lodes. He got Magnin's into the boutique concept early on, dividing selling space into small shops devoted to Courreges and other designers. He has not tampered with amenities like the gold-and-marble ladies' room, which makes the San Francisco store something of a tourist attraction and is duplicated in all Magnin's stores. Rival retailers take more interest in Magnin's 24-carat charge accounts, some of which run to $30,000 a month...
...productivity, pushing up costs all around. Some of the fastest rises are in pay for service workers-laundry men, bus drivers, retail clerks-who produce no more than before and sometimes much less. "That," says Yale Economist William Fellner, "is what makes life less and less comfortable in a rich, industrial country...