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...crumbling like the sea wall along Havana's beautiful Malecon Drive. The gay city is now grey and, for a Latin capital, uncharacteristically quiet. No visitor can fail to note the soot-smudged dinginess of the Habana Riviera and the Habana Libre, once the city's flossiest hotels. Silent knots of Iron Curtain technicians, gun-toting militiamen, and bewildered peasants brought to Havana for Marxist orientation have replaced the thronging tourists who once filled their lobbies. Nightclubs like the Tropicana-still ballyhooed as the world's biggest-continue to operate, but with a Cuba socialista beat...
...consumption. Raging through the Los Angeles suburbs of Bel Air and Brentwood, a gale-whipped brush fire-the worst in Southern California's history -had sent up in Argenta-mink smoke 447 homes (bottom price: $50,000), left behind more than $24 million in insurance claims, and the flossiest refugees since the Russian Revolution. Among the homeless were Actor Cliff Robertson, Joan Fontaine, Comedian Arnold Stang, Bandleader Orrin Tucker. All that was left of Burt Lancaster's $500,000 estate was a mailbox, an exercise bicycle and a smoldering set of barbells. Poking through...
...heart-clinic benefit at the Place Pigalle nightclub on Manhattan's West 52nd Street in 1934, she so impressed the manager that he offered her a paying job. So began a four-year career as a torch singer, which took her into the spotlights of Manhattan's flossiest nightclubs, brought upwards of $1,000 a week. Symington, a lot less famous in those years than his wife, followed her nightclub trail, building up an undeserved reputation as a playboy...
...subject in a dentist's chair, made 100 three-dimensional photographs of her, worked 1,500 hours while playing Bach, Beethoven and Mozart on his hifi. The girl is Lady Dalkeith, 26, a former fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister. In 1953's flossiest British wedding, attended by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and 1,600 other guests, she married Margaret's front-running suitor, rangy, redheaded Walter Francis John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, son of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch...
...bottle-or to fame. He also bullied and blarneyed his way to more newsbeats than any other Hearst city editor, made the Examiner (circ. 350,739) Los Angeles' most readable daily and a clamor that echoes from the smallest cell in the Lincoln Heights jail to the flossiest mansion in Westwood...