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...week with the same zesty grace. At the first big White House wingding of the season, the President and First Lady greeted ambassadors and their wives as they sipped champagne and nibbled at small cakes. There were fires in all the fireplaces, and the flowers, said Mme. Hervé Alphand, wife of the French ambassador, "looked as if they have been arranged by a human hand instead of by a florist." It was a warm and friendly gathering. President Kennedy in his new club coat and striped trousers managed to talk to almost every guest except Russian Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov...
Last week the onetime pastor of Balatonboglar, himself a refugee from Soviet tyranny, found that free men can remember quiet heroes. At a brief ceremony in the Washington residence of French Ambassador Herve Alphand, tall, scarlet-caped Bela Varga, 57, made a papal prelate during his 13 years in exile, was decorated with France's Legion of Honor, in remembrance of the refugees he saved...
...York Couture Group announced the supreme fashion leaders in its annual international poll to uncover the world's best-dressed women. Among the past year's chosen few: Britain's Princess Alexandra, Nicole Alphand (wife of France's ambassador to the U.S.), Manhattan Social Lioness Peggy Bancroft, Elizinha Moreira Salles (wife of Brazil's ambassador to the U.S.), Monaco's Princess Grace, Paris-Palm Beach Hostess Gloria Guinness, Cinemactresses Audrey Hepburn and Merle Oberon. Four other ladies rustled their way into permanent niches in the stratospheric Fashion Hall of Fame in recognition of their...
...Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, whose connections with Peru had hitherto been obscure. Last weekend Berckemeyer did it again: an after-theater supper for British Actor Sir John Gielgud. French embassy parties, while never very big, are among the most enjoyable, are distinguished by the beauty of Ambassador Hervé Alphand's second wife (he was divorced, remarried last summer) and the ambassador's after-dinner impersonations of Winston Churchill and France's René Coty. ("If I had my choice between Maurice Chevalier and Alphand," says an admirer, "I'd take Alphand...
...Alphand asserted that France is morally correct in refusing to grant Algeria its independence, since "we cannot be sure whether the Algerian citizens really desire independence." He continued, "We are ready to grant a cease-fire, hold a free election, and discuss with the elected representatives the future of Algeria...