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...most notably the Theater Royal on Drury Lane, where the good-omened "man in gray" floats into view-but only during the opening nights of successful productions. Westminster Cathedral, which was long ghost-free, reported its first spook in 1966, but Kensington and St. James's palaces and Windsor Castle have much longer ghostly histories, and the bloody Tower of London has been plagued for centuries...
...aimed at this goal. This summer, 200 to 300 Hartford ghetto children will spend two weeks in suburban homes, while many whites will repay the visits during corps-organized housepainting projects and ghetto-neighborhood get-togethers. Coll also has completed arrangements to take over the National Guard camp at Windsor Locks, Conn., for several weeks to create a "Corps City" for 100 black and white children. Says he: "We'll challenge the hell out of them...
Chicago-born Main Rousseau Bocher retired last week at 80, and the world of fashion lost its Grand Old Man -Mainbocher. The first and only American to make it to the top in Paris haute couture, Main, as he was called by the likes of the Duchess of Windsor, moved to Manhattan in 1940, where he became famous for the superelegant simplicity of his very expensive clothes. "I don't like to see people 'dressed up,' " he says. "I've always made dresses for ladies." The ladies he made them for will always remember the Main...
...production, the final arbiter is the director. Michael Kahn (Merry Wives of Windsor) and Edward Payson Call (The Tempest) concentrate on horseplay, swordplay, and foul play, or foot play, arm play, and hand-and-wrist play. But of true drama they seem to have not the remotest inkling...
...Crown in the style to which it and its subjects have become accustomed. Of the overall $1,140,000 allotted annually, $444,000 goes for household salaries (319 full-time employees ranging from footmen to curators in the Royal Collections); $292,320 for household expenses (five royal palaces-Buckingham, Windsor, St. James's, Kensington and Holyrood-house-plus royal receptions and garden parties); $31,680 for the Royal Bounty, a fund from which the Queen contributes to charity; plus a $144,000 Privy Purse or salary from which she pays her personal expenses...