Word: silk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Highlight of the vacation was Mamie Eisenhower's 63rd birthday, celebrated at week's end at a dinner party in "Mamie's cottage" on the Augusta National's grounds. Dressed in a brown silk print with a fitted bodice, the First Lady happily posed for a birthday picture, recalled the time six years ago at Augusta when Grandson David ("just a little boy then") had "gathered up all the blown flashbulbs" after photographers left. Golfer Ike posed impatiently. "Looks as if it's going to rain," he grumped, turned on his heel and strode away...
...thode américaine" has sparked a revolution in food retailing. The familiar cubbyhole specialty store, with its high prices and limited stock, is on the way out. Rising to replace it is the big, flashy market that offers customers everything from plastic-packaged carrots to caviar, silk stockings and camping equipment, and all at prices 10% to 20% below the old-fashioned competition...
...long experience. Of the two singers making their debut, Finnish Bass-Baritone Kim Borg (as the Count) was adequate, but Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soederstroem (as Susanna) was a silvery voiced delight. The sets by Designer Oliver (Rashomon, House of Flowers) Messel were superbly elegant: a boudoir whose rose-colored silk panels and drapes glowed with a kind of faded splendor, a formal garden suffused with the feathery, misty charm of a landscape by Watteau...
Speed Mad. At 7 a.m., in silk dressing gown and polka-dot pajamas, he padded down the hall of Laranjeiras Palace, his official Rio residence, to his one-chair barbershop for an hour-long ritual of shave, facial massage, manicure, interviews, English lessons, more phone calls. Ahead lay a morning of decisions: "I think you should get the Belo Horizonte-Brasilia highway ready by January instead of April. Why can't the contractors do it now and charge it to next year?" At 1:30 he ate a big lunch with his wife Sara and daughters Marcia and Maristela...
With the Henry Hudson as his base, he really took to heart the Carte Blanche brochure: "Carte Blanche . . . is a credential that you are accustomed to the 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...