Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ready for a Change. Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe, chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, has submitted a list of 14 homes for consideration. Among the top contenders: Tregaron, the late Joseph E. Davies' 7½-acre wooded estate (the setting for the ballroom-party scene in the movie Advise and Consent); Dumbarton Oaks, a Georgetown estate where the conference that hatched the United Nations was held; Octagon House, a Georgian-style Washington landmark on New York Avenue; Hitt House, the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization; and Bonnie Brae, a barnlike Tudor house of fieldstone and brick...
...corner of Manhattan's Shepheard's discothèque, on the dance floor of the Waldorf ballroom, gradually more in public view, New York City's Widower Mayor Robert Wagner, 55, had been squiring his deputy's sister, blonde, socially registered Barbara Cavanagh, 36. Last May, in declaring himself out of the running for reelection, the mayor added pointedly: "I have some obligations to myself too." Now it's official: Barbara and Bob will be married by Francis Cardinal Spellman on July 26 in a private chapel in the cardinal's residence. Barbara, some...
Nine in the Hopper. The week's real action took place a few blocks away in a ballroom of the Americana Hotel, where the ruling 234-member House of Delegates met to thrash out the medicare dispute. The mood there, in the words of Former A.M.A. President Edward R. Annis, was one of "contained frustration...
...most influential regulars are no longer rich themselves, they are apt to screen newcomers more on the basis of family or behavior rather than wealth. Recalling that Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, one of the doyennes of Newport society in the good old days, once delighted her guests by filling her ballroom with live butterflies, a young Newport matron said wistfully, "If I did that, everybody would think they were moths...
...night they ran A Star Is Born on the late show, Liza Minnelli, 21, found her own rainbow. Poised, but grinning gleefully, she stood before a packed ballroom at Manhattan's Hotel Astor to accept the American Theater Wing's "Tony" award as the season's best musical actress for her Broadway debut in Flora, the Red Menace, a tepid comedy she heats up with a dramatic voice that brings memories of Garland yet is still her own. Her mother Judy couldn't attend; she was at the Neuropsychiatric Institute of the U.C.L.A. Medical Center...