Word: hostesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LEAN HOSTESS AT PARTY IN COOL FRIENDSHIP GARDENS- EVENT DEDICATED TO GOOD FELLOWSHIP - Macy-Hopkins Wedding Main Topic...
...Newspaper of the Air (WMT and KRNT, 1:30 p.m., C.W.T.) and hear a quietly dramatized report of what plain Iowans, people known only to their neighbors, are doing to win the war. Listen has told the stories of Iowa's Peggy Conrardy, the first U.S.O. hostess in Alaska; of Iowa's Carl Anderson, "who is doing the same thing he's done [raise hogs], just a lot more of it"; of Russell J. Waller, Iowa newspaper editor who enlisted because "I thought you couldn't write editorials for two years, as I did, telling people...
Died. Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, 67, novelist (Green Forest, Black Stream), ex-wife of Bainbridge Colby, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State; in Manhattan. Once a celebrated hostess to Washington society, she satirized the blue bloods in her writings, and Colby, when he sued for divorce in France, complained that she had satirized him. She later got their divorce in Reno...
Cinemactress Ona Munson, player of aging hospitable shady ladies ("Belle Watling," "Mother Gin Sling"), was chosen by the Chamber of Commerce as Hollywood's official hostess...
...from the fact that Isolationists Eggleston, Feagin and Stewart (of Scribner's Commentator and The Herald] were entertained at a, big picnic on the Maytag estate. But no Maytag was present, the Maytag house was closed, and no Maytag was aware of the political views of the guests. Hostess was a Mrs. Vickers, widow of a Lake Geneva dentist...