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...dynasty of successful novels and plays that was founded twelve years ago with Bonjour Tristesse, that sad, wispy novel about a girl's incestuously inspired destruction of her father's mistress. By now the author is so celebrated that Cheval's opening night drew the French Rothschild family, as well as large segments of lesser society folk right down to the cafe variety. The critics went away ecstatic. Wrote Jean Dutourd in France-Soir: "This play is charming, brilliant, tender, intelligent and of a special sort of comic turn of mind...
...club was established in 1950 by a onetime Belgian diamond cutter, Gérard Blitz, 54, who got into the business by way of running hotels to rehabilitate concentration-camp victims after the war. Blitz now owns 40% of the club's shares, and Baron Edmond de Rothschild's Compagnie Financière 34%. In his original prospectus Blitz said the villages would permit members to escape from offices and factories and "rediscover the natural rhythm of life." Club President Gilbert Trigano, 45, takes a less lofty view. Says he: "We look on vacations as a product...
...miss proposition. Rumanian "Carpati" cigarettes are so thinly packed that a smoker must slit the pack down the side in order to avoid spilling tobacco from a vertically lifted cigarette. The well-turned-out lady of Budapest buys her clothes at the shop of Klára Rothschild on winding Váci Utca, but equally handsome working-class wives do their shopping at the Great Market Hall-a vast, unheated, barnlike building where sausages and onions dangle from the beams, dung-smeared chicken eggs sell for a dollar a dozen, and delectable fish called fogas goggle stupidly from their...
...year-old firm not only provides much of the money that finances these and other U.S. industries, but has spread out to become a diversified department-store of high finance. This week Lehman (pronounced Leeman) will reach across the Atlantic Ocean: as co-managers with London's N.M. Rothschild & Sons of a consortium of 68 international banking concerns, Lehman will put on sale the first $27.5 million of bonds to finance a $138 million, 300-mile transalpine oil pipeline. The issue is expected to become the largest corporate bond offering in European history...
Already, Baron and Baroness Guy de Rothschild have bought a house, the Loel Guinnesses have just built one, the Clint Murchisons are just finishing one, the Samuel Newhouses are renting one, and the Douglas Fairbankses Jr. are looking for one. Mexican Millionaire Melchior Perusquia Jr. is spending $5,000,000 to build a private development for what he calls "the best people in the world," including Walt Disney and Frank Sinatra, who last month bought another Acapulco house...