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...Creme; it is a high quality makeup, commonly known as a foundation, that costs $25 for a 2-oz. jar. There are a few makeup creams that cost more and many that cost less. But for many years Alexandra de Markoff, which is a division of Charles of the Ritz, based its advertising on the theme that its products were better because they were expensive...
Britons also reveled, mostly at a distance, in the opening last month in the venerable Ritz Hotel of London's newest and most elegant casino. More than 350 guests, including the Countess of Suffolk, the Baron de Montesquieu and the prince of thespian cool, James Mason, consumed 300 lobsters, 25 Ibs. of beluga caviar and 50 cases of Dom Perignon champagne while inaugurating wheels and tables that insouciantly accommodate $8,000 wagers at a clip. "Nice, isn't it?" a Ritz entrepreneur observed demurely. "In London, there's something for everyone...
...Food was scarce, few rooms were heated, and even electricity was rationed. But Curtiss, who comes from a rich Boston family-her brother is Lincoln Kirstein, a founder and patron of the New York City Ballet-had all the advantages of money and connections. Establishing herself in the Paris Ritz, she made it her job to befriend Proust's friends and to beg or borrow those precious letters...
...word alone, provided he sold it to a magazine. The Saturday Evening Post, Look, Collier's, LIFE, Woman's Home Companion and Coronet routinely rewarded writers more handsomely than many magazines do today. The Post paid $5,000 to F. Scott Fitzgerald for diamonds smaller than the Ritz and, shortly before the weekly's death in 1969, $2,500 to anyone for a lengthy article. (Top scale today at the Post, revived in 1971 and now appearing nine times a year...
...commonly seen chanting and dancing on New York's Fifth Ave., or asking for donations in Harvard Square dressed in Santa suits around Christmas time. But this devotee stands on the threshold of Boston's Temple of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), three blocks from the Ritz-Carlton...