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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...
...mountaineer. The prince did it twice on a private tour of the U.S.-once at the New York World's Fair, where he do-si-doed into a square-dance demonstration, again in Philadelphia when he overheard the Delaware Valley Square Dance Association holding a hoedown in the ballroom of his hotel. But at the mention of the frug or Watusi, the prince winces a bit: "I do not do these dances, and it is not for me to say too hastily whether they are good...
...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...