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DIED. Helen Cohn, 92, who helped her husband and business partner Nudie create garish, rhinestone-studded garb favored by glittery entertainers from the 1940s to the '80s; in Valencia, Calif. Among their most famous creations was a $10,000 gold lamé suit for Elvis Presley (the profit for Nudie's Rodeo Tailors: $9,950). The ensembles were most popular among country stars like Roy Rogers and Buck Owens, who wore Nudies to their graves. The Cohns' motto: "It's better to be looked over than overlooked...
...have solider reasons than he had once supposed. His frank impatience with out moded customs is now largely confined to attempts at jolting his wife's realm out of its lethargy. "There is a school of thought," Prince Philip said in an official speech as Elizabeth's husband, "which says, 'What was good enough for my fa ther is good enough for me.' I have no quarrel with this sentiment at all, so long as it is not used as an excuse for stagnation . . . but do not forget that the great position of British industry...
...final ceremonial progression through the streets of London raised haunting memories of her first, on a brilliant morning 16 summers ago. That was when a watching world fell in love with the beautiful princess, her new husband by her side, being borne in a carriage toward an enchanted future. Her return journey last Saturday morning carried her, alone, moment by moment, step by cadenced step, inexorably into the past...
Diana's cortege was joined along the way by five of the men in her life: her ex-husband and former father-in-law, Prince Charles and Prince Philip; her brother Charles, Earl Spencer; and her two sons, Prince William, 15, and Prince Harry, who will turn 13 next week. They walked behind her coffin, and then so did five representatives from each of the 110 charities with which Diana had been associated. A few were in wheelchairs, a few more on crutches. They were not the sort of people ordinarily invited to march in royal processions, but they were...
...There's no top job to compete for, and no revolving door of CEOs you have to please." Reid, who climbed to the top of KPMG, calls the Queen "the best person I've ever worked for. She lets you get on with the job, but she and her husband see things with great clarity. Sometimes we look at every conceivable angle; she'll just cut through...