Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puts up with U.S. Ambassador David K. E. Bruce; in Manhattan he lunches at the St. Regis with "Babe" Paley, wife of the CBS board chairman. And when time comes to cruise the Greek isles, he goes shipmate with Gianni and Marella Agnelli, Prince Adolfo Caracciolo and Kay Graham, the peripatetic but serious-minded owner of the Washington Post...
...Mess of Piranhas. Capote's friends are nothing if not loyal-in fact, some of them feel he has changed their lives forever by opening new vistas. When his latest book came out, Kay Graham threw a big party for him in Washington and he promised her last spring, "I'm going to give a party for you because you gave one for me." The place would just have to be the Plaza Hotel, "because it has the only truly beautiful ballroom left in New York." And the decor would be straight out of Cecil Beaton...
...Paris, Rome, Washington, Los Angeles and Garden City, Kans., flew in the guests.* All day before the ball, fashionable East Side hairdressers fought off nervous breakdowns, and the 16 hosts and hostesses who had volunteered to give pre-ball dinners simmered on the verge of hysteria. Capote and Kay Graham had a quiet little "bird and bottle" picnic supper in his Plaza suite. As the hour for the party approached, Capote's chums became as anxious as he. Said Mrs. Leland Hayward: "We're so dearly fond of Truman, and we were afraid that with all this publicity...
...mysteries," says Leatherman, "but her approach to it is plainly visible in the technique itself. Many of its basic elements are centered in the pelvic and genital regions, and Martha's bluntness in teaching them shocks the innocent." She teaches her "virile gestures" at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in Manhattan, where housewives and movie stars glory in "the miracle of the foot." "One must be ruthless to teach," she says, and students have learned to endure her snits, her incomprehensible ways, and her lonely "voyages into herself," when she wraps herself in a shawl and sits...
Once merely the high priestess of a cult, Graham today has gained a much broader audience as well as symbolic recognition-the $30,000 Aspen Award last year plus honorary degrees from