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Word: fontainebleau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very finest service and attention." He ordered eight custom-tailored silk shirts, four pairs of slacks, two sports jackets, an evening outfit of tuxedo, patent leather shoes, soft black hat and walking stick. To hold his finery, he charged two pieces of luggage, flew to Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel and took a $21-a-day room. There, the first suspicious glance was cast at his credit card. The hotel asked for it "to check" did not give it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Fun on the Card | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...nation's No. 1 seedbed for future corporation presidents has long been Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration. Last week European leaders gathered at Fontainebleau Palace, south of Paris, to inaugurate a Harvard-style Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires. Chief purpose of the new Institut will be to train a whole new generation of European businessmen capable of operating the expanded businesses made possible by the European Common Market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Harvard in Europe | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...director of Fiat." His connections seemed to impress George Allen, the modestly salaried chief cashier of American Express in Paris. Allen, who comes from Philadelphia, was a model of American-in-Paris respectability, living in a plainly furnished apartment, his biggest extravagance a Sunday picnic in Fontainebleau forest with his wife and two little girls, after passing the plate at Sunday morning services at the American Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Cashier & the Con Man | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...carved into the doxy's forehead. Bill had even more grandiose ideas of the code of the caïd. When Dominique told him that she could not pay the 500,000-franc "fine" she owed him, he offered to help her pull off a stickup in suburban Fontainebleau to raise the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Billy the Ca | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Rose-Colored Mules. At 2 o'clock one morning, as Bill's black Dauphine-Gordini headed towards Fontainebleau, he jammed on the brakes on a deserted stretch of the road and pulled out his pistol. Dominique jumped out of the car as Bill started firing-five shots in all. Hit, Dominique clawed at the tar roadway in her frenzy to crawl away, was still writhing when Bill calmly dumped a can of oil over her and set her on fire. As he started back to Paris and the apartment of his "official mistress," who was to provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Billy the Ca | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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