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...freshest food. The chefs will go to market that same morning to choose the food and then they will take over the Elysee Palace kitchen. The wine will be mostly vintage '26, the year in which both Bocuse and Giscard were born. Bocuse has already approved the stove: "It is a real old-fashioned one that is perfect to cook...
...year-old Norwegian maid, her employers, the Nelson Rockefellers, were very odd. One night, when they were late, she left dinner on the stove and went off to a party in Brooklyn. Next day Nelson's first wife, Mary Clark Rockefeller, demonstrated the helplessness of the very rich. "AnneMarie, what happened to you last night? I had to take my husband to Hamburg Heaven." That was only the beginning, as Anne-Marie Rasmussen reveals in her autobiography There Was Once a Time. Contrary to the American Dream, Second Son Steven had no sooner married her in 1959 than they...
Every clod has its silver lining, and for each insultee there are thousands who would not light a stove without consulting the proprietor. Jackie Onassis is a devoted customer, as are Johnny Carson, Nelson Rockefeller, Danny Kaye and the Kennedys. The Waldorf Astoria Hotel buys supplies from the store; so does Pan American Airways...
...went into court to press charges of extreme physical abuse against their father. Kallinger languished in jail for seven months awaiting trial because he was unable to raise the $75,000 bail. When he finally stood trial, his sons testified that their father had chained them to the kitchen stove and beaten them...
...zoomed toward $1 billion a month. Italy's foreign indebtedness is now nearly $17 billion, and the latest loan of $2 billion from West Germany is supposed to be paid back in March. But the money has disappeared as fast as a "drop of water on a hot stove," according to outgoing Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo, and Italy is going to need even more loans in the next few months to stave off bankruptcy and pay for oil. Italy is more dependent on imported fuel than any other European country and has been especially hard hit by the rise...