Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming-out party in London's smart Quaglino's restaurant, Celia Sandys, 17, daughter of Britain's Commonwealth Relations Minister Duncan Sandys and granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, was honored by a visit from the Former Naval Person himself, now 86. "I shall be staying only a half hour, my dear," said Sir Winston, who had just got over a slight cold. But as he sipped champagne and surveyed the 200 dancers in the ballroom, Sir Winston let his first half hour slip by, then another and most of a third. At 12:20 a.m. he finally...
...Peppermint Lounge and its Twist might well have remained just another flesh spa for the midtown beatnik crowd had it not been for the sharp eye of New York Journal-American Society Editor "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Igor Cassini), who somehow spotted a few members of the smart set slumming there one night. No sooner did Cholly break the news in his gossip column than the Peppermint Lounge became an instant fad. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford showed up. So did Porfirio and Odile Rubirosa, and Bill Zeckendorf Jr. and Judy Garland and the Bruno Pagliais (Merle Oberon), and Billy Rose...
...other reforms, abolished polygamy; from Moufida Bourguiba, 72, his wife since 1926, mother of Habib Bourguiba Jr., Tunisia's ambassador to the U.S., Canada; in a French-style civil court last spring. Also revealed: Bourguiba's marriage last June to Ouassila Ben Amar, 45, a plump and smart Tunisian divorcee who has long wished to be first lady...
...narrator is Georg von Geyrenhoff, a civil servant retired in early middle age who, from the vantage point of the 1950s, sets down the book's events in reminiscence. The book peers into boudoir and bar, smart rendezvous and thieves' kitchen, Vienna woods and Vienna sewers, museums, palaces, and slums. There are political riots, murder, sadism, Lesbianism, and varieties of amorous intrigue; but Von Doderer's temperament triumphs over passion and violence to give the book a placid, mellow tone. In a series of tableaux vivants, Von Doderer has captured a moment of history, a few years...
Money in Mufti. With smart bidding and shrewd economy, Avco's pretax profit margin has more than doubled since 1957. from 3.4% to 7.6%. "But you can trim costs just so far," admits Wilson. For the future, Avco intends to boost earnings by swinging into more profitable civilian goods, altering its defense-to-civilian sales ratio from the present 60-40 to 50-50. To help achieve this target, it is banking on a rise in industrial use of such products as its turbine engines and heat-shielding devices. "In our forecasts for coming years," says Wilson, "profit increases...