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...late Polish-born cosmetics czarina, Helena Rubinstein, was a passionate pack rat. As some women accumulate lipsticks, she collected silverware, Oriental rugs, miniature period furniture, African art and dolls. She also owned works by the greatest French painters of her day. When she died last year at the age of 94, she left four homes-in Manhattan, Greenwich, Conn., London and Paris-each packed with masterpieces and exquisite junk...
Chained to the Cliff. One of eight daughters of a Cracow merchant, Helena Rubinstein launched a thousand ships for herself by making women care to be beautiful, stashed her jewels in drawers marked D for diamonds and R for rubies. She slept in an illuminated Lucite bed that she had had designed for $675 (which sold for $200). Her wealth was reckoned at more than $100 million, but she was frugal enough to eat lunch from a paper bag and strong enough, at 93, to stand off three thugs who tried to burgle her New York apartment...
...look, she said, like "an eagle-eyed matriarch." The portrait she most coveted escaped her. It was by Picasso. When he asked her age, she replied to his delight: "Older than you are!" But nothing pleased him. "You might not live long enough to finish it," warned Mme. Rubinstein, then 92. Picasso sketched away, tossed one on the floor. She bent to pick it up, and he put his foot on it. She pleaded; he would not budge. In that contest of wills, Picasso was the winner...
...last week, he plays again. His Scriabin is more difficult and more triumphant, his Chopin alternately stormy and suave; it is more introspective than Rubinstein's, probes for a cerebral content that surprises and electrifies. His eyes are glued to the keyboard, his fingers carefully searching out each note as if they are switches that illuminate sound. But the greatest success is not in the relationship of Horowitz to his audience or Horowitz to his critics, but of Horowitz to Horowitz. He signs a five-year contract with Columbia Records. On May 8 he will play again before...
...anger . . . 'I have had men shot for saying less!' "). Readers who like to spot the fictional distortions of real-life people in Robbins' books (Howard Hughes and Jean Harlow in The Carpetbaggers) will have no trouble identifying lightly veiled counterparts of the Rothschilds, Trujillo, Swindler Serge Rubinstein, and Porfirio Rubirosa...