Word: salons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While his sister-in-law brought French cuisine to Washington, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy has added the salon. Corralling a coed group of New Frontiersmen (among them: Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric), Bobby last month set up weekly night-school seminars presided over by Presidential Aide (and ex-Harvard historian) Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and State Department Counselor (and ex-M.I.T. economist) Walt Whitman Rostow. Dubbed "Hickory Hill University" after Bobby's McLean, Va., estate, the seminars involve homework of one book a week, and Rostow, exercising a professor's traditional prerogative...
Last week Saks brought George to its Manhattan headquarters so that New York sophisticates could sample his talent. George hovered about the salon, supervised underlings ("Set her sides in pins, the top so, so and so in rollers. Oh God, just give her what she wants"), and longed for home ("New York is overrated; the West is so much further ahead in fashion"). Blond and slim and looking slightly like the late James Dean, George first started styling hair eight years ago in Grosse Pointe, Mich. The heads he dressed then belonged to ordinary, everyday $100,000-a-year executives...
...Bonn wineshop now sells Hennessy cognac at $3.75 a bottle while the best German Weinbrand at the same price gathers dust.* From tiny Fiats to elegant Ferraris, some 400,000 imported cars have been sold in West Germany. In a posh Dusseldorf shoe salon last week, a matron, eyeing the latest square-toed model, snapped: "Is It Italian?" Replied the salesgirl: "Madam, we sell only Italian shoes." German sausage and French pate are pouring into Belgium at twice the pre-1958 rate. One of Brussels' largest stores laid on a Common Market exhibi tion earlier this year called "Europe...
...they sat down in the Quai d'Orsay's gilded Salon de Beauvais in Paris to work out an allied reply to the latest Communist gambits, it was U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk who was most eager for action. All the ministers agreed that, if need be, the West would have to risk war. But all still hoped to find a formula for peace; all now recognized that major negotiations with Russia-perhaps even a summit meeting-would be necessary before the year...
...Certified public accountants are used to figures, but Manhattan C.P.A. Edward Isaacs, 55, has a new kind of figure to deal with. Last week he headed an investment syndicate that bought the elegant couturier salon and affiliated companies of Hattie Carnegie, Inc. Since the 1956 death of Vienna-born Hattie Carnegie, who rose from Manhattan's Lower East Side to become the high-living high-fashion arbiter for two generations of U.S. women, sales have slipped from $10 million to last year's $7,000,000. Isaacs plans "an immediate, aggressive expansion and diversification," will emphasize Hattie Carnegie...