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...Dwight Eisenhower, Estes Kefauver and Joe McCarthy). Last week freshman Congressman Tumulty (currently a Democrat) faced a problem. He had gained 30 pounds during last fall's campaign, now weighed an imposing 320 lbs. ("In campaigns now," he explained, "you don't make speeches, you just eat canapés"), and nowhere in Washington could he find a dress suit to wear to the President's congressional reception. After trying all the local tailors, resourceful Representative Tumulty hurried back to Jersey City to see a tailor he knew. While he was waiting for alterations, a photographer showed...
...Buenos Aires, with its docile press, rumors are often the apėritifs and canapės that come before a feast of news. Last week Argentines were enjoying the headiest, spiciest assortment of rumors since last April, when President Juan Perón survived a crisis of bomb-throwing by his enemies. The choicest tidbits...
...Columnist Arthur Krock, divulged the distilled wisdom of a veteran Washington hostess. The advice: "Don't give cocktail parties . . . . Of all things dedicated to spoil the evening to come, the cocktail party ranks first." But if you must, "don't serve those awful little monsters known as canapées," and avoid mobs...
...flutists and their friends wandered about the auditorium, filling the air with a high-pitched and rarefied din. On a platform at a piano, Mrs. John Wummer, wife of the New York Philharmonic's first flutist, served accompaniments to those who wanted them, as a hostess might serve canapés. Near the door stood one of the club's nonflutist members, one Edwin Rosenblum of Brooklyn, who loathes the flute but cannot resist the morbid spectacle of an army of flutists pilliwinking away at once...
...Boston Brahmin who was born in Paris of German forebears (von Kronenscheldt) and who lives in Manhattan. Says he, "I am a poor but good Crowninshield." His father was a mural painter of independent means. As editor of the late, lamented Vanity Fair Crownie made it a lively canapé-service of contemporary taste, with succulent tidbits of Noel Coward, Colette, Dorothy Parker, Ring Lardner, Harold Nicolson, Edmund Wilson...