Word: hostessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buenos Aires reporters clustered around the visiting literary lion and his hostess. How did Graham Greene find the food in Argentina? "I like to drink more than I like to eat," he smiled. "That is a joke," interrupted Victoria Ocampo, noted essayist and editor, "because he has come to a house where the hostess does not touch a drop of alcohol." No kidding, continued Greene, he found the Argentine whisky he was served "interesting but not very good." Er, and politics? "I am a great admirer of Fidel Castro," said Greene, after which Miss Ocampo allowed...
Many of the country's cinema artists, who travel abroad a good deal, now find that they can feel at home in their own country for the first time. One of them is Actress Sylva Daničková, the lovely hostess at her country's Kinoautomat success at Expo 67. "I was always traveling abroad talking about politics, art, love-anything-critically, angrily and happily, however I felt," says Miss Daničková. "But when I came home, it was silence. You couldn't really participate in the life of your country...
From her dressing room, Virginia Graham, the hostess of an all-girl TV cackleklatsch, slyly eyed her guests of the day as they paced the studio...
Stage Tizz. Hostess Graham credits the zest of her show to Producer Monty Morgan's "infallible casting of the wrong people who will be right together." They turn out right only because she is there as catalyst and referee. A onetime Chicago Tribune reporter and soap-opera scriptwriter, Virginia, 55, describes herself as the one "who looks like two June Allysons," the one with "the perfect face for radio." She is also the one who gushes too much, as in her introduction of Guest Muriel Humphrey: "You're so beautiful it's ridiculous! It looks like...
...this would be a yeasty investment. Continental's bread, led by Wonder, is sold in 46 states and in Mexico, Jamaica and the Bahamas. Continental, which also makes Hostess cakes and Morton frozen foods, had total sales of $621 million last year. Its management, headed by Chairman and Chief Executive R. Newton Laughlin, will continue to operate Continental. The parent company will act as "a repository of technical knowledge for Continental," says ITT Executive Vice President Hart Perry, who supervised the month-long negotiations...