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...down beside me on the couch, and explained her initial caution over the telephone. I'd called up cold and asked to see her, saying I'd been given her number by a Navy friend of mine. Luckily, I'd been equipped with enough information to verify a half-believable story...
...Come on in, honey," she said, as she took off my coat and beckoned me toward the couch...
...Billy Wilder had a problem: finding a piece of furniture for his afternoon naps. "After all," the famed movie director (Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment) confided to a friend, "a man of my reputation simply can't afford to have something that looks like a casting couch in his office. It's too obvious a symbol of lechery...
Director Wilder grows ecstatic about his new acquisition. "I adore the originality of its shape," he says. "It isn't the old-fashioned Rubens couch; it's more like Giacometti." Eames agrees that the Chaise "is comfortable and works," but he has one reservation: "I'm sad that it's so miserably expensive. What's really discouraging is that its cost doesn't rule it out of the market." Indeed not. This fall, Manhattan's Herman Miller Inc. began taking orders for copies of the Eames-Wilder Chaise-at $636 apiece...
Then grotesquely, the groom escorted his bride to the familiar Tonight guest couch. Johnny, looking mighty puffed up in his tuxedo, greeted them from behind his accustomed desk. There followed a commercial and a champagne toast (the couple drank milk and honey). Tiny serenaded his bride and read plugs for the florist who had supplied 8,000 tulips, his hairdresser, and several other generous purveyors. After sign-off, the couple held an unruly press conference in which Tiny estimated that their kiss during the ceremony had been "about our fifth," but then proceeded to buss Miss Vicki 100 more times...