Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dumpling, 58-year-old Elsa Maxwell, professional party-thrower and No. 1 U.S. hedonist, will "do anything for a laugh-with me or at me." (Once, hard-pressed for a laugh, Elsa threw a banana peel on the stairs, laughed and laughed as she bounced black & blue to the bottom.) But one thing she drew the line at was writing a gossip column. So last week she turned columnist...
...should visit Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Ark. but rotund Elsa Maxwell, professional party-liner for café society. Last week, interviewed by the New York World-Telegram, Miss Maxwell had some unexpectedly shrewd observations to make about the U.S. Army's morale. Said...
...with Paris, where she had hurt her ankle in the blackout and food was frightfully dear, Dressmaker Elsa Schiaparelli arrived by Clipper in New York...
...Phyllis Duskin, New York, N. Y.Leonard Levin Betty Ziff. Greensburg, PennArthur Maling Paula Berwald, WellesleyStuart McCarty Jane Patterson, ErskineHugo Monnig Elizabeth Stockstroom, BenningtonGrover O'Neill Mary Taylor, Sarah LawrenceMurray Pendleton Barbara Birch, ArlingtonDonald Pitkin Edith Hall, WinsorHarold Rosenblum Carol Flarsheim, Brookline, Mass.Russell A. Sibley Virginia Marston, WinsorRobert H. Smith Elsa Walker, ErskineHarold C. Tint Elaine Schulman, Dwight SchoolEdward M. Townsend Mary Lee Longscope, RadcliffeHenry A. Walker Jean Fellows, SwampscottAndrew Wolfe Nancy Browne, WinsorWilliam J. Welfgram Mary Louise Sherritt, RadcliffeTHAYER HALLLloyd M. Anderson Esther Bennett, Gorham NormalDavid B. Arnold, Jr. Adele Squibb, WindsorA. Roy Atherton, Jr. Janet Erwin, Colby Junior CollegeMyrton...
With a fine crop of Washington socialites sitting under her domineering auctioneering spell, fat, party-witted Elsa Maxwell raised $10 for the R.A.F. by knocking down an alleged tuft of George III's beard...