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...society. But it won't be a classless society-at least in Europe. Beginning next month, a favored few will be able to flash what promises to be the most patrician card of them all: a plastic ducat bearing the famed five-arrow emblem of the House of Rothschild and the blue-and-yellow racing colors of Guy Edouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild, 57, head of the Paris branch of the family and of the grande dame of French banks, Rothschild...
Though the Rothschild Frères cards are the first to be issued by a European bank, they are hardly the thing for the Europe-on-$5-a-day set. They will be honored at only about 120 spots in Paris and resorts in the south of France, including airline offices, the best hotels, restaurants, fashion houses and-for those who like to buy their Rolls-Royces or Mercedes on impulse-prestige auto dealers. What's more, only the elite with Rothschild bank accounts will be eligible for the cards, and those accounts are rather hard...
Given the credentials of Rothschild's clientele, it is surprising that the bank is playing the card game at all. It will charge no fee for the service, and only a few hundred cards will be issued; that hardly compares with such plebian powers as the Diners' Club, which has more than 30,000 holders in France...
...once, missed extra points worked for the Crimson, instead of against. Yale's barefoot soccer-style kicker, Bill Rothschild, missed the conversion of Yale's second...
Married. Baron James de Rothschild, 70, oldest member of the banking dynasty's French branch, one of France's leading sportsmen; and Yvette Choquet, 27, a Théátre de Paris usherette who five years ago showed him to his seat so graciously he invited her to dinner at Lapérouse; he for the second time (his wife of 41 years died two years ago), she for the first; in Paris...