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France was poor and the times were bad, but Catherine de Medici and her son King Henry III were throwing a royal wingding, and they were not a pair to pinch a franc. Catherine's valet de chambre, Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, cooked up for the occasion a lavish combination of painting, music and dancing that is now rated as the first true ballet ever performed. The show began about 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 15, 1581 in the Grand Salle of the Hôtel du Petit Bourbon in Paris, and lasted until 3:30 in the morning...
...average homes, and its grounds cover 18 well-manicured acres. At $5,245 a year, the highest-paid staffers are the principal operating engineer, the foreman carpenter, the foreman electrician and the foreman gardener. The lowest-paid is the pantrywoman ($2,500). President Eisenhower's valet earns...
...biggest moneymaker. The Santa Fe is also one of the most modern, e.g., it is the biggest road to be 100% dieselized, and its speedy (Chicago to Los Angeles in 40 hours), elegant Super Chief is the nation's most glamorous train, with a private dining room, barber, valet, and an occasional cocktail loungeful of Hollywood stars...
...Rohe, the project consists of two 29-story skyscrapers on one site, four 28-story structures about a mile away. The six buildings, clad in aluminum and tinted glass, will have 1,283 apartments, offer such luxury features as airconditioning, soundproof walls, double-oven kitchen ranges, and valet service. Rentals will range from $100 (for one room, dressing room, kitchenette and bath) to $700 (for a twelve-room apartment). To be built in 18 months, the glass cities will cost an estimated $25 million, partially financed by an $11 million, 20-year Equitable Life Assurance Society mortgage, a record loan...
...backstairs gossip, the drab releases are not enough. They thrive on rumors (most of them inaccurate) picked up from various royal employees-and occasionally on eyewitness accounts by those who have left the royal household. On all such journalistic works the palace frowns. Last year, after an ex-valet to the Duke of Edinburgh wrote for the Sunday Pictorial that Philip wears long underwear in the winter, and uses a lotion to retard the thinning of his hair, Press Secretary Colville put his foot down. To the British Press Council went a stern note: "You will, I am sure, readily...