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...young seminarian to the wrong side of the altar; but, she said, she had no intention of doing so now. Then she banned the Spanish language from the set: a clause in her contract stipulated that everyone connected with her in the movie speak English. When a lavish bash was held for her in a swank Madrid nightclub, Sarah showed up hours late wearing a white woolly hat. After the Spanish press had denounced her behavior, Sarah denied any malice aforethought. "I love Spam," she said tearfully. "Why is the world trying to make a monster woman...
...male-only clause in the club's 89-year-old constitution has come under increasing attack. This year, for instance, a "counter-Gridiron" party was held that attracted many of the celebrities who had previously attended the orthodox bash. Now, with the solemnity of king penguins about to bathe en masse in public, the Gridiron has yielded-sort of. The word "persons" has been substituted for "men" in the charter, and membership will expand to 60 over the next five years. Does that mean ten women members by 1980? Not necessarily. Any candidate for admission may still be blackballed...
...dinner at Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel to honor Elder Statesman Averell Harriman, 82, and raise money for party candidates. There was also a Republican maverick. Describing herself as "just an old, broken-down Bull Moose," Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 90, said the dinner was. her first-ever Democratic bash. Marking Harriman's 40-year career as a politician and diplomat under four Presidents were members of their families: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Margaret Truman Daniel, Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and a special friend, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to whom he lent his Georgetown house after President Kennedy was killed...
...decided the Journalists for Professional Equality, a group of Washington reporters who banded together to protest the barring of women from membership in the capital's venerable press club, the Gridiron. In competition against that group's annual "roast" of politicians, the J.P.E. staged its own bash: a $7.50-a-head, beer-and-chili evening to benefit the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press. Entertaining the sellout crowd of 800 were such Gridiron defectors as Senator Ed Muskie, running a bingo game; former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, autographing his doodles for auction (highest price...
...other. He takes a swig, then passes bag and bottle to a classmate. In a San Francisco suburb, several high school freshmen show up for class drunk every morning, while others sneak off for a nip or two of whisky during the lunch recess. On the campuses the beer bash is fashionable once again, and lowered drinking ages have made liquor the high without the hassle...