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...lose a potful," said Gilbert last week. "Well, maybe he did-for him. It was about $30,000." Potful or not, Cassini's losses were big enough to have erased all his happy memories of the days when he enjoyed the expensive hospitality of the Gilberts' Riviera villa. Snapped Ghighi last week: "Nobody expected what happened. They thought Gilbert was a bluffer and a social climber, yes. But nobody expected him to be a crook...
...fortnight's vacation in Monte Carlo, Sir Winston Churchill, 87, divided his time between painting and gambling, sun and sightseeing. Mornings he sat before his canvas in a ninth-floor studio of the Hôtel de Paris with a superb view of the Riviera coast and the Monaco yacht basin. Afternoons, he drove up in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes. Nights, Sir Winston sat for hours at a roulette table in the Monte Carlo Casino, as oblivious of the gawping tourists as an old but uncaged lion. Walking painfully, but refusing any helping hand, Churchill invariably carried...
GENERAL MOTORS hopes to snatch off some of the Thunderbird market with its all-new Buick Riviera, which looks like an outsized version of Volkswagen's Karmann Ghia with a big American grille. The Riviera will have a 117-in. wheelbase, 340-h.p. engine, and come in a four-passenger, two-door, hardtop model. Chevrolet, also hoping to cut in on the Thunderbird, plans to introduce a Corvette model with the "fastback look" (Detroitese for the convex rear lines popularized by Jaguar's hot XK-E). The big Chevrolet will have its rear doctored to resemble the pointed...
...cold, damp spring in Spain, but this has not deterred the first wave of the estimated 10 million foreigners-one for every three Spaniards-who will visit Spain this year, particularly the booming Costa Brava and Costa del Sol. which have turned into a kind of noisy, cut-rate Riviera, where conservative Spaniards sneer that the girls go to Mass in bikinis...
...maintained a villa on the French Riviera at Roquebrune, complete with poolside orchestra, and held open house for international drifters. On paper, he was worth well over $10 million, and he had a pretty wife ready to help him dispose of it. Just one month ago, Rhoda Gilbert was sued by Cartier for the return of $734,000 in diamonds, emeralds and black pearls that she had had sent round "on approval"-and which she had assumed Eddy would pay for. even though they were already estranged...