Word: lavishness
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Died. Ada Everleigh, 93, regal co-madam (with her late sister, Minna) of Chicago's lavish turn-of-the-century bordello, the Everleigh Club, which boasted a bevy of demure girls, string music, perfume-squirting fountains and a 1,000-volume library at a price of $100 for a "mild evening," was finally closed by severe reformers in 1911, sending the millionaire sisters off to retirement in Manhattan with a golden piano and a few other mementos of the good old glittering days; in Chicago...
...owners of this lavish jungle hostelry are Hollywood Actor William Holden, Swiss Industrialist Carl Hirschmann and a jaunty U.S. oil millionaire and gambler named Ray Ryan. The three claim to have sunk a million dollars into improving the once staid Mawingo, which Ryan bought on a whim over a few drinks...
...Hong Kong's Cafe de Chine, 500 guests sat down to a lavish celebration that included a 14-course dinner, scenes from Peking operas, Soochow poetry recitations, drinking and dancing. The host was Insurance Tycoon Cornelius Vander Starr, 67, and the occasion was the 40th anniversary of his insurance company, the largest independent international insurance agency in the world, with branches from Paris to Phnom Penh. Starr, who started his business in the Far East, could well afford the celebration. Last week his American International Insurance Corp. reported that in 1959 it collected $155 million in life and general...
...book. Across the land, art lovers can choose among 500 art books published in 1959, and among prices ranging from the Cadillac to the hot-dog trade. Publishers are planning an even greater output for 1960. Few of the new crop are notably well written, and many offer lavish coverage of ground that has been covered before. But the boom is bringing art home to more Americans than ever before. Items...
...past three years, Harvard University has diligently appealed to its alumni in a well-planned drive to raise $82.5 million. Purpose: a lavish refurbishing of Harvard College (TIME, Nov. 26, 1956). Last month, still about $10 million short of the goal, Harvard went back to wealthy alumni who had already given. Last week the results were announced: out of deep pockets in three weeks flowed 18 six-figure gifts totaling $3,100,000, to boost the pledges to $75 million. No sooner had the word been issued than other Harvard-men jumped in to help raise the remaining...