Word: hostesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Edward Beale McLean, 25, son of Hope Diamond-decked Evalyn Walsh McLean, rococo Washington hostess; by Ann Carroll Meem, 24, daughter of Washington Banker Harry Grant Meem; after five years of marriage; in Reno. He will marry Gloria Hatrick, a Manhattan model...
Died. Ellen Graham Bassel Davis, 74, wife of John W. Davis, Manhattan lawyer and onetime (1924) Democratic Presidential candidate; after long illness; in Locust Valley, L.I. In London during her husband's Ambassadorship after World War I, she was judged the handsomest embassy hostess in 50 years...
...Carlton, he always stops to make a few jokes with the girl at the cigar counter. Then he takes on the long round of visitors and telephone calls. (It is not unusual for three Administration czars, the White House, a horse owner and a suppliant hostess to phone him, all inside 20 minutes.) The sound of a buzzer, announcing a new caller, is stimulating to Bernie Baruch. He adjusts his hearing device, turns the battery in his vest pocket to full volume, and goes to work. He has a way of making all visitors, even the low liest, feel...
...Manhattan hostess learned last week that there is a "key countries approach" to postwar monetary stabilization. Said she: "I am furious. It took me all spring to pair off Lord Keynes and his bancor, and Harry White and his unitas. Now this...
...Floods. "On the morning of May 17 I was awakened by my hostess. She was very agitated. 'What a horrible catastrophe!' she exclaimed. She said there was no water in the house, and that many people had been killed in districts near the Mohne and Eder dams...