Word: weigt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Open-Dior Policy. Named for a glossy magazine ("Society's largest journal for the most elegant group") that claims 1,800,000 readers, mostly under the dryer, the club is owned by Madame's genial Editor Heinz Weigt, 51, a barber's son who turned from shaves and facials to champagne and ego massage. The club's chief aim is to make the new tycoons feel socially accepted-if only by other new tycoons. Nevertheless, for dues of $7.50, as a West German magazine delicately pointed out, "one does not have to be rich to belong...
...limited to 1,000. Last week it passed the 1,300 mark and will soon, in its founder's words, be "a pleasant, exclusive circle of 2,000." Grumbles one member: "It's getting more exclusive with every thousand." Though the entrance is marked Members Only, Heinz Weigt confesses: "The manager has instructions to let in attractive nonmembers." As a result, the club's decor consists partly of aspiring starlets in hopes of catching a producer's eye with their daring decolletages. The open-Dior policy reached such extremes at a recent jump-for-joy contest...
...catnip, canny Heinz Weigt has bestowed membership on a sprinkling of industrial and show business high society, claims as his most illustrious guest aging Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's economic wizard. Gina Lollobrigida has membership card 101. Other card carriers include German Stars Curt Jurgens and Winnie Markus, Tape-Recorder Tycoon Max Grundig, onetime Boxing Champ Max Schmeling, Film Producer Ilse Kugaschweski, and one registered aristocrat: Friedrich Carl Prince Fugger von Babenhausen...
Caviar Every Day. Another lure is a flock of door prizes that recently included a purebred horse and a white Fiat. At his big January ball, Weigt announced last week, a $25,000 hunk of Italian Riviera will be given as a prize. Less successful was his plan to solve the servant problem by auctioning off a maid; it was abandoned after critical comment from a Bavarian radio commentator. Shrugs Weigt: "Servant problems are all the wives ever talk about in this place. All the men talk about is how to get out for an evening without their wives...
Last week Heinz Weigt completed plans for a move to bigger and plushier quarters, which a Munich hotel is providing free. With the club will go one present fixture: an enlarged Watteau etching, from which an 18th century siren peeks suggestively out at the bar as she heads for the shrubbery with her lover. Muses Weigt: "She is the symbol of the club. You see how her wink follows you all around the room? She already has everything-yet she still wants something more...