Dressing Down: For the second year in...
Dressing Down: For the second year in a row, the International Assn. of Custom Tailors & Designers has omitted Donald Trump from its “best-dressed” list, although apparently the slight has nothing to do with wardrobe. Don Case, a spokesman for the tailors’ group, said Trump’s own tailor has pointedly told the besieged tycoon that he needs a haircut. “A pile of hair in back of his neck is not conducive to a gentlemanly appearance,” Case said.
* Dressing Up: Those who did make the list include Britain’s Prince Charles, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and former President Ronald Reagan. Among the rest: Vito Pascucci, president of the Leblanc musical instrument company, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
* A Princely Sum: U.S. District Judge Hugh Robinson has ordered the auctioning of the Atlanta mansion owned by Saudi Prince Faisal Mohamed Al-Saud Al Kabir. The judge ruled Friday that Faisal had abused the judicial process by transferring the mansion, its furnishings and a gun collection to a holding corporation to protect it from bankruptcy. One of the prince’s chief creditors is the CJS Corp., which is headed by former Georgia Gov. Carl Sanders, who says the prince owes CJS $11 million. The prince reportedly is in Saudi Arabia seeking financing.
* Street Talkers: Neighborhood volunteers trying to discourage prostitution are posing as hookers and handing “johns” literature about AIDS in the Uptown area of Chicago. Wearing heavy makeup, furs and other streetwalker garb, residents have been flagging down men in the middle of the night to spread the word about the risk of disease. Police Sgt. Robert Sarnowski says the program could be dangerous for the activists. “Once a john is in a car with a girl, I don’t think he’s going to be inclined to read any literature,” he said.
