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After the war, Fifth Avenue's Bonwit Teller invited them in to set up their own custom-order salon; with their family connections and friends in New York and Washington, Nona and Sophie found it easy to build a clientele. It was at Bonwit's in the early '50s that the wife of Senator Jack Kennedy began buying some of their clothes. Two years ago, they moved out to a new place of their own on Park Avenue. Jackie moved with them, and so did such customers as Mrs. William Paley, Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, Mrs. Charles...
...favorite "at home" costume during the day is a comfortable robe; she picks them up for about $12.95 apiece in Manhattan. She buys her underwear in the U.S. "because it is so much better than in Europe. You go into Bonwit Teller and buy a girdle, size small, and you get it home and it fits. It's unbelievable! Incredible! You can't do this in Europe!" It is not so simple with hats, however, which "must be made on your head. A ready-made hat will not be you. While I am sitting for a dress...
...West Berlin, the holiday tables were piled with traditional dishes-boiled carp for Christmas Eve, roast goose for Christmas Day. the cheery bunte Teller, plates piled high with fruit and marzipan, nuts and pastry. But West Berlin's authorities have banned the traditional New Year's Eve fireworks for fear some young people would lob the German equivalent of cherry bombs across the Wall into East Berlin and precipitate trouble. The Berlin mood last week was accurately reflected by a sardonic "Carol for Our Time" written by members of the press corps...
...generations, and 400,000 more defective or still-born babies over the next 6,000 years-or slightly more than one a week. He also expects uncounted cases of bone cancer, leukemia and other physical defects to appear in humans now alive. At the other extreme is Dr. Edward Teller, professor of physics at the University of California and a developer of the H-bomb, who insists that there is no worldwide danger from fallout as a result of nuclear testing. Says Teller: "The fallout danger is grossly and improperly exaggerated." Last week the U.S. Public Health Service, guardian...
Portrayed against the background of this macrocosmic rise and fall is a strikingly personal account of a love affair between Aten and a Russian nurse. By what, from the story teller's point of view, was an extremely for fortunate coincidence, Aten met the girl and had opportunities to spend any amount of time with her while the Cossacks were at the height of their successes; later, during the nightmarish retreat, the two lovers meet with their own special tragedy. The parallel between the personal and over-all themes would be entirely plausible, if left to the reader to discover...