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...have told them she was a rough customer. So could the Revson boys. But all she looked like was a fragile little old lady, so these three tough guys, dressed up in blue delivery boy's suits and wrap-around sunglasses, broke into the 26-room Park Avenue triplex of Helena Rubinstein, who may or may not be 92 (her age is a bigger secret than her formulas). "Open the safe or we'll kill you," snarled the head hood. "Go ahead," she sneered. "I've lived my life. You can kill...
...Francisco 33 years ago and, after a World War II stint as a major on MacArthur's staff, rode the Ford account to the top of the agency. In his spare time, Strouse turns out handsomely designed pamphlets on a hand printing press in his elegant triplex apartment on Manhattan's Beekman Place...
...River. "Today's rooms," says Mrs. H.J. Heinz II, wife of the 57-varieties man, "are either so slickly modern that one becomes Mrs. Plastic or so ornate that one is Madame Ormolulu. I prefer to have something that will last." To restyle part of their eleven-room triplex co-op on the East River at 5 2nd Street, the Heinzes brought in Jansen Inc., international decorators. Drue Heinz used mostly classic French furniture but aimed at a Venetian effect. The high ceiling had been strung with beams. They were ripped out. and the walls were "papered" in green...
...drenching rain, tall, bespectacled Steven Rockefeller, 23, son of the Governor of New York and scion of one of the world's greatest fortunes, was joined in marriage to blonde, buxom Anne-Marie Rasmussen, 21, the daughter of a retired grocer and onetime housemaid in the 27-room triplex Manhattan apartment of the Rockefeller family...
Glaze of Words. Thus, as if she were herself the heroine of a Fannie Hurst novel, she traces her progress from the conventional, middle-class home of her St. Louis childhood to her present, medievally furnished, stained-glass-windowed, triplex apartment in Manhattan...