Word: alphands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...construction workers, clad in khakis and cement dust, grinned delightedly over their lunchtime beers and sandwiches as she accompanied Architect Marcel Breuer on an inspection tour of the new Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan. Meantime, at some less gritty feeds, old New Frontier Friend Nicole Alphand was swirling around town winding up a hectic month of goodbyes. Everyone was a little mournful now that French Ambassador Hervé Alphand was taking his glittering wife back to Paris, where he will become Secretary General of the French Foreign Office. Said Dean Rusk, recalling Nicole's brilliant seven-year...
...guests were easily recognizable and hardly the crashing type: the Bobby Kennedys (who arrived one at a time in a beige Lincoln Continental convertible), the Stephen Smiths, Pat Lawford, Lee Radziwill, the Robert McNamaras, Douglas Dillon, Cartoonist Charles Addams, Author Truman Capote, Artist William Walton, Mme. Hervé Alphand and Mrs. Paul Mellon...
French Ambassador Herve Alphand, 58, and his wife Nicole had been close to the Kennedys, but when Lyndon Johnson came to the White House, the entente was not all that cordiale ("I suppose we will have to learn zee bar-bee-cue," quipped Nicole). For more than a year there has been gossip that the Alphands would be leaving Washington. Now called home to Paris to take over the No. 2 post in the Quai d'Orsay under Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, Alphand makes way in Washington for a Frenchman who might better understand...
Dernier Cri. Hollywood's hardest-working sex symbol showed up at Lanvin's salon, plopped herself down next to Nicole Alphand, wife of the French ambassador to Washington, and dazzled photographers, if not the fashion editors, with a hot-pink Balmain dress whose V-neck plunged to a demure bow set between her floating ribs. Carroll also displayed six inches of thigh, a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses, and aplomb...
...Next time you come to Washington, call me," murmured the impeccable Madame Alphand. "I'd love to show you the embassy." "That's it," cried Carroll ecstatically, as she spied a Harlow-type Lanvin white gown dripping with ostrich feathers...