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Europe's fabled Orient Express returns in pristine splendor...
...known in its gilded heyday as the train of kings. It also transported in regal splendor diplomats, divas and duchesses, the beau monde and the demimonde, maharajahs, moguls and con men, courtesans, couriers, private eyes and spies. Thundering across empires to the edge of Asia, the Orient Express was the most celebrated train in history. It retired ignobly in May 1977, aged 94, a shrunken outcast of the hurry-up age. Then, last May, it rose again in all its pristine opulence as a regularly scheduled year-round train luxe, plying between London and Venice. The once and future train...
...wealthy that ends wealthy. While his old flame marries on her own terms (he is not invited to the wedding), Stavros, now 42, lands a 40% interest in Sarrafian. At war's end he sets off for Greece in all the rugs-to-riches splendor of the returning immigrant...
When the folks back home opened up their magazines to pictures of the summit, the Reagan suit hit them in the eye like an errant thumb. One reader phoned Washington to ask if the suit had deeper diplomatic significance. Cocktail parties on both coasts pondered Reagan's sartorial splendor...
...what prompted Brooke Shields to slip into a Geoffrey Beene tuxedo bathing suit? Come to think of it, who cares why she did it? Having turned 17 last week, Brooke, the lovely duckling, has clearly grown into a long, lean swan. Later this year she embarks on Sahara, another splendor-in-the-sand epic in which she will play, for the first time, a woman. In the film, Brooke winds up racing a 1928 Packard in a trans-Sahara race. Will she bring her black-tie bathing suit? That was just for show. Personally, she prefers the informality...