Word: duchin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...receive compliments but not calling cards, at charity balls they take their breaks with their players instead of their patrons, and at cocktail parties they are not to be seen at all. Even hair dressers fare better - no doubt because they know more secrets. But with Band leader Peter Duchin, 28-year-old son of famed Piano Stylist Eddy Duchin, life is considerably sweeter...
...Vreeland, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart) were all there, along with a clambake of Kennedys (Bobby, Ethel, Ted, Eunice and Sargent Shriver), a détente of diplomats, and a ponderosity of pundits. The music, fittingly enough, was provided by the orchestra of society's pet pianist, Peter Duchin, who is Averell Harriman's godson. And even in the crush of Paris designs, Duchin's wife, Cheray, glowed like a Botticelli blonde on the half shell...
Some look-alikes seemed not too displeased to be counted among the Starrs. "I sat next to someone who looked like Joan Kennedy for five minutes before we both realized we were wearing the same dress," Cheray Duchin reported. "We laughed about it." Some of the laughter also came out slightly lime green. One woman reporter claimed that several guests repaired to the powder room to weep on one another's bared shoulder. Happiest among women were those who had bought the selfsame dress and decided to wear something else that evening. Then even they started worrying. This side...
...guest, not a hostess, at the Manhattan society opening of 32 landscapes and still lifes by French Artist Bernard Buffet, 36. The gallery was filled with art inexperts. "Buffet paints a variety of styles!" remarked one black tie, eying some Picassos hanging near by. But Peter Duchin's band was playing, the buffets were laden with filet mignon and champagne, and even the upper-case Buffet felt decidedly a la mode. Already 20 of his oils-which he simply dashed off-were sold at Dom Pérignon prices...
...COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT (Decca) is an album by Pianist Peter Duchin, Eddy's son, and his smoothly swinging band, which was launched two years ago at Manhattan's St. Regis, and has since played the frug for Luci Johnson in the White House. He plays pieces like Days of Wine and Roses and The Party's Over on the hesitating side, and sheathes Mack the Knife in satin...