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...waitress came rushing out of the diner in Manchester, N.H., with a guest book for Joe Biden to sign and stayed to tell a story. Her name was Michelle Griffin, and she had just returned to work after being ill for two years. Her husband was working two jobs. They were putting two daughters through college. They had no health insurance. "There were times when I thought we wouldn't make it ..." she said, and tears filled her eyes. Biden put his hands on her shoulders, and his forehead on hers-an awkward but touching gesture-and she shuddered into...
...from within. And on Saturday, Valentino will show his haute couture collection in the Baglivi and Incisa halls of the Monumental Complex of the Santo Spirito in Sassia, the oldest charitable institution of Rome, followed by a gala dinner in the Villa Borghese gardens. If this is 45, one guest wondered, what will 50 be like...
...opera houses. Beverly Sills, the redheaded child radio star whose mother dreamed she'd be the "Jewish Shirley Temple," stayed home, loyally working her way up through New York's "second" City Opera and drawing raves as a brilliant coloratura soprano in shows from Manon to Cleopatra. Though she guested around the globe, the Met's Rudolf Bing, who scoffed at U.S.-trained artists, refused her a major role. (Sills' belated 1975 Met premiere, following Bing's retirement, earned a 20-minute standing ovation.) Her rise seemed inevitable. Witty, smart, tough and down-to-earth, the ebullient performer--nicknamed Bubbles...
Dinner-party diplomacy didn't suit George Washington's palate. While the food was good--"roast beef, veal, turkey, ducks, fowls, jams, etc.; puddings, jellies, oranges, apples, nuts, almonds, figs, raisins, and a variety of wines and punch," recorded one guest--the host often sat in complete silence. It fell to others to set the table for key compromises in Washington's first term. When the first Congress reached an impasse over two issues--where to locate the permanent capital city and how to pay off the Revolutionary War debt--Thomas Jefferson asked Alexander Hamilton and James Madison to share...
...first to assume the role of what came to be dubbed "the Washington hostess," and she provided the model for the rest to follow. Dolley's dinners--used at first to promote her husband's career and then to solidify her own--delighted the politicians, and she made every guest feel like the most important person there. Living well into the middle of the 19th century, the former First Lady trained successive generations of hostesses in the art of putting on the party where the politics could play...