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...Perhaps, but for most of the capital's movers and shakers, the scariest thing about Katharine Graham's 70th-birthday ; bash was not the long reach of her Washington Post Co. publishing empire but the possibility of not being invited. Among the 600 or more well-wishers at the fete organized by Graham's daughter Lally Weymouth: Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz, Senator Edward Kennedy, Publisher Malcolm Forbes, ABC Newswoman Barbara Walters and retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Lewis Powell. "Here's looking at you, kid," said the President as he toasted the liberal Graham...
From 2 to 4 p.m., spectators can watch an array of traditional Chinese dances such as the Lotus Dance, the Sword Dance, the Mongolian Dance and the Ribbon Dance during which a dancer nearly choked herself last year, organizers of the fete said...
...late one night after a Jubilee Ball [a freshman fete]. By the time all the furniture was put back, it was 3 a.m. and since I had to be back into work by 6 a.m., there was little point in going home, so I stayed the night on the second floor. About 4 a.m. I heard the piano making a peculiar noise--the strings were twanging without reason. I thought at first it might be due to a changing of temperature, but that just doesn't pass muster," Gannon said...
...newsletter about economics and politics; his son describes the style as "right-wing Walter Lippmann, a view of the world every month. My father believed that life was hard. The important thing was to make a living." Jacqueline Stone was just the opposite: inexhaustibly sociable, the original bete de fete. "My mother loved movies," Stone says, "and every Monday I'd play hooky, and we'd go see two or three movies. From the start, I had the contradiction in me: my mother's outgoing, optimistic, French side and the dark, pessimistic, Jewish side of my father...
Fantastic parties are a Khashoggi signature. Christmas was a simple tea compared with his 50th-birthday fete in 1985, at which he entertained more than 400 guests at a three-day extravaganza. His birthday cake, a model of Louis XIV's coronation crown, was created by a chef who was flown to the Louvre to study the original. Khashoggi's parties also take place in his 30,000-sq.-ft. quarters incorporating the 46th and 47th floors of the Olympic Towers in Manhattan. Created out of 16 separate apartments, the abode has a pool that overlooks the spires...