Word: entertainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul Getty, 70, told BBC tellyviewers how awful it was to be rich. Money wasn't everything, said J. Paul; "some of the best times I've had didn't cost money." What was more, "I wish I had a better personality so that I could entertain better. I'm worried that I may be on the dull side." Later, in Manhattan, jet-set Journalist Elsa Maxwell, 79, agreed with Getty all the way. "He's quite right to wish that," observed Elsa, "he's the dullest man that ever lived, and socially impossible...
...Which contained "Hatrack," the famed, banned-in-Boston story of Asbury's hometown, only-on-Sunday harlot, who, after being rebuffed and shunned at the Sabbath evening service, would haughtily head down the cemetery lane, where she would entertain as many as came, Catholics in the Masonic cemetery and vice versa...
...setting befits William Zantzinger's status as a rural aristocrat. His father, a former member of the Maryland house of delegates and the state planning commission, still lives in the mansion, where he and his wife entertain in convivial country style. William and his attractive wife, Jane, 24, organized the Wicomico Hunt Club, love to halloo after hounds across their fields. William is unlike many a gentleman farmer. His farming success is due not to the efficiency of hired supervisors, but to the long hours of gritty, grubby work he himself does afield. But by last week...
...said that such a plan would only he realistic on guest nights and even then might "start lines all the way to the Yard." He indicated that the committee had had quite a discussion - "not acrimonious," however" - but said they concluded it would be "nice for young men to entertain their own dates...
...Washington Columnist Betty Beale. Apparently not, since the Alphands run what many people consider the only decent French restaurant in Washington. "I think some other French ambassador might be affected socially by what's happened," said the wife of one U.S. official, "but not the Alphands, because they entertain so beautifully." This judgment appeared a little premature. The perfect hosts proved pretty picky guests at a Mona Lisa preview dinner later in the week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The way U.N. officials got it, the invites were already out when Alphand balked at discovering that...