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...loyal readers who suspect the Sterns of going straight, a few pie-in- the-face recipes are thrown in, including seafoam lime Jell-O mold with marshmallows and Mary Bobo's carrot casserole, a concoction made with Ritz crackers and melted cheese. It should be noted that the Sterns and Fussell give quite different recipes for New Orleans red beans and rice, yet both are credited to Buster Holmes, operator of the famous French Quarter greasy spoon. Quite possibly the old master cook never makes that dish the same way twice, which is why there probably cannot...
...more: he exaggerated the very elements of his persona and performance that had earned him his early notoriety. The costumes were soon fit for a king -- King Frederick of Hollywood -- with their exotic plumes and freighted trains. He wore diamonds as big as the Ritz; his hair was not so much teased as taunted; his candelabra were large enough to light the Library of Congress reading room. The patter between numbers became bolder, dropping innuendos like anvils...
Students who have heard "Puttin' on the Ritz" or "Blue Moon" wafting through the Yard recently have not been listening to records or tapes, but to a new freshman singing group, the Callbacks...
...rentals last year, up 50% from 1981. At New York City's Waldorf- Astoria, 60% of last year's banqueters showed up in formal gear, up from 45% in 1981. That means, according to the hotel, that 195,000 folks showed up at the Waldorf to put on the ritz. "The intensity of private fund-raising dinners, due to Government cutbacks, has increased and thus the increase in black-tie events," explains Waldorf Catering Director Lawrence Harvey. "In my set," says New York City Socialite Mrs. Thayer Gilpatric, "the tuxedo never went out." A century ago, however, the tuxedo almost...
...directors were disturbed by reports, including those in a Newsweek cover story on CBS's troubles, that Wyman had talked to officials at several companies about a possible merger. (TIME has learned that feelers were indeed received by Philip Morris.) According to one of those present at the Ritz-Carlton, the directors considered such a purchase a bad idea; Paley was especially opposed. As a board source later explained, "We don't want the management of a big company that is in some other business to exert an unfair and self-serving influence on public attitudes...