Word: hostesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late No. i U.S. clubman, posthumously appeared by proxy in Manhattan's Surrogate Court. The claim of $231,750, brought against his estate after his death in 1942 by Muriel Paterson, onetime showgirl, who charged that Vanderbilt had guaranteed her $750 a month for life for acting as hostess on his yacht and for "special services" rendered, was finally settled in full...
...love with Harriet's twinkling-eyed dignity, and after the war courted and married her. As a Columbus lawyer's wife Harriet Day Bricker painted, played the piano, gardened, composed song lyrics, raised son Jackie, 13, quietly helped her husband become Governor of Ohio. An efficient, handsome hostess, Mrs. Bricker will make no soapbox speeches in her husband's coming campaign for the Vice-Presidency, will discuss no controversial issues. But she reserves the right to have strong personal convictions...
...most notable member of the official family is Spaatz's WAC aide, Captain Sally Bagby, a tall, slim brunette from New Haven, Mo., who functions as the General's confidential secretary, personal batwoman, mess hostess, badminton opponent ("I'm the only one he can beat"), wardrobe checker-upper and last line of defense against bores and time-wasters...
Innocence and Bliss. The show and the crowds would have pleased the Modern Museum's prime founder, Lizzie ("Lillie") P. Bliss, late, wealthy daughter of Drygoodsman Cornelius N. Bliss. Genial hostess of a teetotaling salon, Founder Bliss was one of the greatest art collectors produced by Manhattan society's latter-day Age of Innocence...
...Doris Duke Cromwell appeared undisturbed by the fact that her divorce is good in Nevada, no good in New Jersey, questionable in 46 states and the District of Columbia. Manhattan gossip columnists reported that she had joined the United Seamen's Service, was training as a hostess, might be assigned to duty overseas...