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Grey-haired Mrs. Ruth Ericksen is the owner (with her husband) and the dominant personality of historic Fontainebleau Inn, near Odessa, N.Y. Ericksenian is the table she sets. Ericksenian the way she describes it. For instance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Surprise Party | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...hostess of Fontainebleau decided she needed some big-league help. A constant reader of the New York Herald Tribune's conservative Columnist Mark Sullivan, she wrote to him, emitting an Ericksenian cry of distress. When Mrs. Roosevelt arrived at Fontainebleau, wearing flame-colored chiffon, a necklace of sharks' teeth, great was her surprise to encounter Mr. Sullivan, in white tie & tails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Surprise Party | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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