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...glimpse the code words QWERT YUIOP-the top line on the typewriter. Best performance: Actor Taylor's. He plays a rather subtly caricatured Sean Corny who looks so much like the man who plays Bond that he even seems to be wearing the same Charles of the Ritz chest...
They were fed cheese from at least two continents and two punches -- a claret and a sauterne. The crackers were straight from Cahaly's (Ritz, mainly, and a mutant potato chip or two); the dip was no-nonsense mayonaise, made aristocratic with parsely...
...pastry in Copenhagen and people will shrug their shoulders in dismay. They call it Vienna bread. Ask for vichyssdise in Vichy: until recently the French waiter said blankly, "Pardon?" And why should he know? It was invented in 1917 by Louis Diat, the chef at New York's Ritz-Carlton Hotel to take advantage of all those extra potatoes...
...Died. Al Ritz, 64, eldest of the Ritz Brothers who, with Second Brother Jimmy, played straight man to Rubber-faced Harry in 18 movies between 1936 and 1946 (Never a Dull Moment), continued to enliven nightclubs with a blend of lunatic dance and non sequitur patter; of a heart attack; in New Orleans...
...mergers, for which the purchase prices totaled more than $700 million. Goldman, Sachs last year put through more than ten key mergers, including Genesco's acquisition of the Kress variety-store chain, Transamerica's purchase of Braniff and Lanvin's purchase of Charles of the Ritz. Other major deals were brought off by such investment bankers as Morgan Stanley, First Boston, and Kuhn, Loeb...