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Last year's renovations included the installation of a circular room lined with bookcases and carpeted in red, the engagement of a specialist in the repair of Delft tile, and the restoration of some of the Castle's leaded glass windows, Rivaldo said. "We also bought a lot of wine," he added...
After college, Murphy latched onto a promotion job with Florida Tile Industries, which meant round after round of businessman's golf. "I looked around," he says, "saw that all I was doing was playing golf anyway, so I decided to turn pro." For a professional prospect, Murphy had two serious faults: weak irons and his fade. But Florida Tile President Jim Sikes agreed to sponsor him, and last fall Murphy entered the P.G.A.'s Approved Tournament Players' school. Only 30 of 111 aspirants won their A.T.P. cards; Murphy was among them...
Well aware that its millions come from sales of many small packages, American Home has a housewife's penchant for counting pennies. American Home has no company planes, not even company cars. In the office, Laporte likes to pad down the plain tile hallways, buttonholing executives with questions like "What have you done for us today?" Nobody ever need ask Laporte that question. At American Home board meetings, the man running the movie projector is likely to be the company's $172,000-a-year boss...
...smokes black Sherman's Cigarettellos. He is not married, but unlike many designers who squire their customers to public events, he shuns big parties and nightclubs. Instead, he prefers entertaining small groups in his modern split-level Hollywood Hills house, which he has decorated in austere white with leather-tile floors and classic Mies van der Rohe and Charles Eames furniture...
Most of the savings came from substituting less expensive building materials and methods for those originally planned. Radiators, for instance, will have standard rather than custom-tailored enclosures; windows will swing in instead of out; floors, through most of the building, will be covered with vinyl asbestos tile instead of carpet...