Word: hostesse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Queenly Hostess. An estimated 500 million viewers around the globe watched telecasts of the festivities, giving the event a public relations value that delighted even the most republican of Swedes. To them, the wedding was a means of reminding the world of the existence and efficiency of Sverige AB (Sweden Inc.). In fact, Sweden's press long has proclaimed Carl Gustaf the "country's No. 1 p.r. man." The new Queen is almost sure to earn a similar encomium. She is witty and conversant in six languages (including recently acquired Swedish). She has become very popular since...
...more admirable. A frustrated would-be actress and model, Liz Ray wandered from job to job (airline ticket agent, waitress, car-rental clerk) after her graduation from high school in Asheville, N.C., in 1962. She first appeared in Washington in the mid-'60s, landing a job as hostess in a restaurant. Her ex-employer says he called her "Excedrin-she was such a headache," and fired her after about five months because "she was hustling...
According to Liz, her first job on Capitol Hill developed in 1972, when she was a hostess at the Terrace Restaurant in the Watergate complex. Kenneth Gray, then an Illinois Democratic Congressman, phoned up to ask for a former hostess there. Liz told Gray that she wanted to meet him. Recalls Liz: "I had heard about him-the limousines, the boat, the good looks, the sharp clothes." They dined that night and, she says, he offered...
MADAME RACAMIER, the elegant French hostess, must have expected some sort of unique, charming ingenu when she invited the wild boy of Aveyron to dinner at her chateau in 1801. Most of Parisian high society would be there, from the future king of Norway to Napoleon's valet de chambre. But of her guests Madame Racamier chose to seat beside her the thirteen-year-old wild boy (called Victor), anticipating an evening of compliments from this new talk of the town. Victor hardly obliged. After devouring his own meal (and part of hers as well), he burgled a dozen desserts...
...first novel, Barbara Howar, the swinging Washington hostess turned writer and television personality, updates a story as familiar as My Sister Eileen: old-fashioned girl comes to the big city because she is too special to settle down with a small-town Chevy dealer. In her memoir Laughing All the Way (1973), North Carolina-born Howar outlined just how special she was. Emerging from postmarital tristesse, she became a Washington gossip item. Names dropped like martini olives. Jealousies were disguised by a jovial rictus...