Word: gwen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when embassy staffs were small and Washington's select social group stood out like the monument. Says she: "It really isn't society anymore." Nevertheless. Evie has adjusted herself to the new social bureaucracy, nowadays frequently prints items about such relative newcomers as Hostesses Perle Mesta and Gwen Cafritz. While Evie Gordon travels among the elite, the bulk of her public-and some of her best sources-are such people as doormen and automobile callers at Washington receptions. One denizen of the social world once said to her: "Oh Evie, somebody told me you had a piece about...
...worked up the best dances of the season. There is a fine, hair-dragging apache number, a legsome cancan, and an enchanting, Garden of Eden ballet spoof, full of flamingoes, frogs and inchworms, as well as Eve and the serpent. As Eve (and several other things), red-headed Gwen Verdon has a wonderfully fetching dance personality; as the Jezebel, Paris' blonde Lilo has lots of voice, as well as personality. Thanks to these girls and the can-can spirit, the show has genuine sex, if only the most intermittent sparkle...
...postscript, setting April 13 as the dismissal date. "I was expecting to be fired only about June," Perle told weeping staffers. "It was a great shock, being so sudden. [But] I suppose there was nothing else to do." For the future, Perle had news for her Washington social rival, Gwen Cafritz. She was building a new house in Washington, would plunge back into the party-giving swim next fall. "For the time being," said Perle Mesta, who is past 65, "this is the end of my diplomatic career...
...finalists include Ruth Abrams, of Cabot and Newton, Mass., Nancy Barrow, of Bertram and Manhasset, L.I., Gwen Brigham, of Moors and Montclair, N.J., and Holly Walker Butler, of Moors and Mendota...
...inside of a school until he was ten and enrolled in a Hollywood kindergarten. By then, death had begun to stalk the O'Connor family. Today only Donald, his mother and his 47-year-old brother Jack are still alive. Donald, who is separated from his wife, Actress Gwen Carter, has a six-year-old daughter named Donna...