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...house at Round Hill in Jamaica, and they are building another house in Nassau. They maintain an apartment in Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis. And they have a place at Squam Lake in New Hampshire, where Paley tears up the back roads at 80 m.p.h. in his Facel-Vega...
Even a final judgment may leave a winner little more than a moral victory. Though Congressman Powell has an income estimated above $60,000 a year and a house in Puerto Rico's secluded Vega Alta suburb, he talks poor-mouth when it comes to paying Mrs. James. He has repeatedly refused to post bond, even when her lawyer, Ray mond Rubin, offered to settle for a bond less than the full amount. And though the law offers a variety of measures for enforcing the judgment, Powell has so far frustrated them all simply by refusing to appear...
...California law they could keep coming back for 26 weeks in a row, make one well-paid movie appearance, and then begin again. Adolphe Menjou is a frequent visitor. After completing her part in Burke's Law, Rebecca Welles drove to Club 55 in her $10,000 Facel Vega. William Beaudine, director of TV's Lassie, often works one week out of three, collects his compensation the other two. After a filming of the Perry Mason TV show, with a lapse in work ahead, the whole cast and crew turned up at Club...
Putting on Weight. With European small cars getting bigger and U.S. compacts de-compacting, the big cars seem to have nothing to do but put on weight too. The luxurious French Facel-Vega, for instance, has added a four-door model (both side doors open dramatically away from each other without a center post) that lacks the sprung elegance of the smaller two-door style. Even Rolls-Royce boasts that the new Silver Cloud III (with its four Detroit-style headlights) is roomier than ever...
...WEDDING, by Anqel M. de Lera (242 pp.; Dutton; $3.95). Spanish writers from Lope de Vega to Garcia Lorca have had a fascination for blending love and death in scenes of grotesque horror. In this tale by Spanish Novelist de Lera. the characters are cliches, and their talk is monotonous. But the novel comes powerfully alive when it reaches the love-death climax of a wedding night. The groom-to-be. Luciano, settles in a small, primitive town, picks a local beauty to marry. He has no trouble bribing her parents to let her go, but the rest...