Decline of manners marches on:

Decline of manners marches on: "Unlike a number of today’s Arab kleptocrats and vulgar Russian oligarchs, no one escorted hookers, no one employed bodyguards and no one employed PR assistants. Today’s upwardly mobile, socially inept, vulgar types never would have mixed with, say, fabled playboys ---" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8512684/Gunther-Sachs-playboys-of-the-world-RIP.html http://bit.ly/igAYDN
"--- like the Roman Prince Filippo Orsini, the Brazilian Baby Pignatari, Count Jean de Beaumont or Porfirio Rubirosa, an adventurer like no other, but one who had innate good manners and chivalry." ibid. http://bit.ly/igAYDN