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Toole was a doctoral candidate at Tulane University, and many of his papers, including the manuscript for Confederacy, are on public display in the university archives. Toole grew up nearby, at 390 Audubon Street, and the surrounding Uptown neighborhood is one of New Orleans' flossiest. Beautiful Audubon Park is rich in native flora, including centuries-old live oaks, and the zoo will captivate family members too young to enjoy Toole or trees...
Faced with those figures, some of the world's flossiest manufacturers are reaching out to the bigger customers with cashmere and silks, gabardines and fine cottons. Last year Designer Albert Nipon sold $5 million worth of his new Dimensions line, for sizes 12 to 24, to such stores as Bonwit Teller, Dillard's and Marshall Field's. Givenchy anticipates wholesale sales of $4 million this season for its pricey Givenchy en Plus line in sizes...
Florida's flossiest seldom discuss politics or economics. A visitor from Ohio insists: "The only recession is among the poor people." But geopolitics may be hissing, serpent-like, in the bougainvillaea. The Argentines, considered the world's best polo players, have been pillars of the sport in Florida, and so have the British. So far, at least, the Argies and the Brits have acted like the best of pals...
...yearly in Britain but only $5,260 in The Netherlands (and $6,160 in Belgium, $5,600 in West Germany, $5,400 in France). Britain also does best by its plant managers ($7,000), design-research chiefs ($7,000) and domestic sales managers ($8,400).* The fringes are also flossiest in Britain. Almost two-thirds of its sales managers drive company cars, often for private use, but less than one-third of their German counterparts do. Britain is big on subsidized lunches; 40% of the middle managers eat at least partly on the house. France leads in the field...
...advertise, they have put on some admirable prestige shows, such as an exhibition of Van Gogh self-portraits and a show of the works of the Bauhaus. They send out the glossiest catalogues, give the flossiest cocktail parties. What bothers their competitors is the brash commercialism with which they do all this. "I'm sorry to have to admit it," says Lloyd's son Gilbert, who is now on the staff, "but Marlborough is the most hated gallery in London...