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Freight pays more than passengers these days, and freight handling is the railroads' biggest business - a subject on which Davidson is a home expert. His family playroom in Manhasset, L.I., is monopolized by a vast and ever-expanding model-train layout, on which he and his children vie for time at the controls. "We have all freight cars - no passenger cars," he says proudly. "It's a very modern railroad...
...hustling" for Romney. "Now," said Chafee, "is the time to speak up." If any new Romney fans did, their words were lost in the cha-cha beat. Lenore Romney pronounced Chafee "brilliant." The resolutions committee, meanwhile, was deliberating in a chamber aptly named the "children's playroom." The more controversial resolutions were either watered down or defeated...
Chasing Marlin. Evidence of the Duke's selling success is his $175,000 house that sprawls behind a seven-foot wall at Newport Beach. Amidst the semitropical garden setting are eleven rooms, seven baths and a projection studio. Inevitably, there is a kidney-shaped pool, and also a playroom for his three latest children, aged 18 months to ten years, by present wife Pilar Pallette, 38, a Peruvian-born actress-model. He has had two previous wives (both also Latin American), four other children and twelve grandchildren...
...only one who likes it." When she can manage to avoid the endless squads of fans, she sneaks off to concerts (preferences: Mahler, Rachmaninoff), but no longer goes to the movies. Instead, for privacy's sake, she runs films in her home-"on the smooth wall of the playroom if it's a good movie, on the brick wall of the living room if it's bad." She cares little for haute couture. Dory Previn charitably describes Julie's wardrobe as "old-fashioned"; the less charitable call it "frumpish." Burton's exwife, Sybil Christopher, adds...
...Playroom was purchased by Holywood before it opened on Broadway, "hose movie merchants always did have pretty sharp eye for junk...