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...Riviera. Gentle Breeze. Holding Hands. Sound good? No, smell good. All of these are selections from a new line of products that the manufacturer, Charles of the Ritz, calls "the next frontier in home entertainment." Starting next fall, living-room Lotharios will be able to set the appropriate mood not only with sights and sounds but with scents as well. Right there between the stereo and the chilled bottle of Dom Perignon will be a small electronic unit about the size of a Kleenex box huffing and puffing out little clouds of Passion or Seduction...
...less successful than Kennedy with women and who never married, was the target of some of J.F.K.'s affectionate jokes. The President once invited Greta Garbo to dinner at the White House with Billings, who was immensely proud of having squired the actress around the Italian Riviera the previous summer. By prearrangement with Kennedy, Garbo loudly professed never to have set eyes on Billings before that evening...
They invented the summer season on the Riviera. The guest list at their 14-room Villa America near Antibes included Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. F. Scott Fitzgerald used the Murphys as models for Nicole and Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night. They were the subjects of Calvin Tomkins' 1971 bestseller Living Well Is the Best Revenge...
Aside from the Mustang, LeBaron's only other Big Four counterpart already on the market is Buick's Riviera convertible, which came out in April. At about $25,000, the soft-top Buick is less a competitor than an elegant showpiece car, one of the most expensive built in America. Only about 2,000 have been sold...
...years surrounded herself with something of a Parisian Bloomsbury group that included André Gide, Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dali; in Cannes. Born in San Francisco of French parents, she married Frank Jay Gould, son of the railroad robber baron, in 1923; together they invested shrewdly in Riviera real estate and built the casino, and the cachet, that made their Juan-les-Pins resort famous...