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...energy?" "Look, McCone is actually smiling!" "I would love to see Allen Dulles twist." Floating among the crowd of 300 smartly-dressed people was the hostess, a tawny blonde, her hair bouffant, her gown a new Cardin, her perfume by Dior. At 1:30 a.m. her husband, Hervé Alphand, 56, the French Ambassador to the U.S., disappeared into an elevator on his way to bed. By 3:30 a.m. the last guests had departed, and Nicole Alphand, surveying all the bereft buffet trays and empty champagne bottles, smiled. It had been a good party...
...Merry-Go-Round. Giving good, and sometimes superb, parties is the most important thing in Nicole Alphand's life. It sounds like a frivolous occupation, but her husband often gets more done in ten minutes of quiet conversation at one of Nicole's dinners than in a day of shuffling papers. For in Washington the dinner table is merely an after-hours extension of the office desk, and at 5 p.m., when the lights wink off in thousands of offices all over town, the working day is only half over. Then the Senators and socialites, the diplomats...
...official" hostesses-the wives of ambassadors and Administration officials-are in. Short of a summons to dinner at the White House, few invitations are treasured as highly as those to 2221 Kalorama Road, N.W., site of the grey stone, Tudor-style French embassy and home of Nicole Alphand...
After You, Alphand. Unfortunately, the precedence business in Washington sometimes unleashes poor sports. France's Ambassador Herve Alphand, for example, "used to be a very reasonable man," says a fellow countryman, "but since De Gaulle . . ." It has been said that if Alphand feels slighted at a dinner, he grabs his chapeau and leaves. Once, at a dinner party given by "Scottie" Lanahan (daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald), Alphand discovered that Adlai Stevenson was scheduled to sit at the hostess' right. Alphand thought he ought to have that place of honor. After all, the French Ambassador outranks...
...highlights of the evening was the presence of Madame Alphand the Ambassador's stunning wife. Madame Alphand listened to her husband's speech silently from her seat in the second row. After the speech students pressed around her to ask her questions, before she slipped into the limousine with her husband...