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Died. Narcissa Thome, 84, widow of Montgomery Ward Heir James Thorne, who spent her life creating a world-famed collection of miniature rooms precise in every detail, from the Lilliputian Toby jugs in a colonial kitchen to the diminutive replica of a Fragonard painting in a Louis XVI salon, sometimes spending thousands on a single setting; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
Stakhanovite Squirrel. The Manhattan liberal and the Vermont Tory have almost nothing else in common. Nor is Javits exactly a spiritual heir of the late Senator whose office he now occupies. Suite 326 of the Old Senate Office Building used to be Robert A. Taft's lair, but its new appointments scarcely reflect the tastes of the man who was known as "Mr. Republican." Busts of John F. Kennedy and Albert Einstein adorn the current occupant's office. So does a Larry Rivers impressionistic landscape of Manhattan's Second Avenue, a scene so remote from the pastoral America of Taft...
...Johnson was converted ten years ago. Now 32, Johnson runs two of the sect's apple orchards, dutifully puts the profits in the common kitty. Youngest member of the House of David by far, he may also turn out to be its last-and, not incidentally, sole mortal heir to the remaining riches of the Kingdom...
...grocer's bag of whims and interests, one of A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford's most earnest pursuits is graphology. Few persons, from financiers to fiancees, ever get close to Hartford without passing his handwriting test. Most of all, he likes perfectionists -people who make their d's Greek-style, from the bottom up after an initial downstroke. Yet as a businessman, Hartford sometimes works from the top down. He has emptied treasure into such disparate ventures as Show magazine (sold for a $7,000,000 loss), Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art (annual deficit...
Satirizing practically nothing, Up to His Ears sets up shop in Hong Kong, where Belmondo, as the bored-to-death young heir to a knitting-mills fortune, has anchored his yacht and tried to kill himself for the ninth time within a week. Someone suggests that he could turn his suicidal impulse to good account by insuring his life for $2,000,000 and letting himself be murdered. He does-and then meets Stripper Ursula, a girl worth living for. Fleeing a corps of assassins, the lovers go to the Himalayas and back by junk, ricksha, sampan, elephant, airplane...