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...beginning: into the water, at the hands of persons unknown, went Arthur Schlesinger and Mrs. Spencer Davis, wife of a Washington broker and good friend of Ethel Kennedy's. They, too, were helped out, walked away dripping and rejoined the party wearing clothing borrowed from the host and hostess...
...disgruntled by and ' South private Viet Nam's dancing, new ban on strait-laced public First Lady Mme. Nqo DInh Nhu delivered a stern lecture. "Foreigners come here not to dance, but to help Vietnamese fight Communism." said President Diem's sister-in-law and official hostess. "Dancing with death is sufficient." Besides, said she, "Asians are not used to promiscuity be tween men and women. If the Americans want to dance, they should go elsewhere." And what of Saigon's 1,200 newly unem- ployed taxi dancers? Said the mandarin Mme. Nhu coldly: "The question...
...university awarding honorary degrees has some of the problems of a Washington hostess: how to snare the most eminent guests, fulfill obligations, perceive who's up and who's down, and keep the party lively with "interesting" people. Some honorary-degree recipients have become the equivalent of Supreme Court Justices on the Washington party circuit-distinguished figures with lifetime tenure. Eleanor Roosevelt and Ralph Bunche long ago lost count of their degrees. Herbert Hoover has 85, Chief Justice Earl Warren...
Maria Teresa was married to President Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1955, having first met him during a post-college stint as an airline hostess. She speaks fluent English and French, is an avid reader in both languages (favorite authors: Graham Greene, Albert Camus), collects paintings by Bolivian artists, is an enthusiastic theatergoer. She is also the hard-working head of the Costurero del Niño (literally, children's sewing box), a charitable organization that distributed clothes to 50,000 underprivileged children last Christmas. For her three daughters, aged three, five, and seven, who have been given a strict...
Presidents' wives and presidential families can always dominate Washington society. But they often haven't wanted to bother. Perle Mesta nailed down the top hostess title in Harry Truman's day because Bess Truman abdicated; in the Eisenhower years. Gwen Cafritz reigned because Mamie Eisenhower didn't care to. But Jacqueline Kennedy does care. Not since the time of Frances Cleveland, 65 years ago, has a First Lady cared nearly so much. And what she and Jack Kennedy care about is not the money and power that mattered in the Mesta-Cafritz days, but brains...