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Vacationing in Los Angeles after an endless stint of "lecturing, writing, making television appearances," Washington's Hostess-with-the-Mostes' Perle Mesta confessed that she has turned mercenary for a good purpose. Her pet project: subsidizing 18 foreign students in their U.S. studies, footing all bills including those for tooth paste. Said Philanthropist Mesta: "That's why I have to work so hard, but why shouldn't I do it? Got no husband, got no family. Just a widow with a small income, eatin' money." Turning from stern fiscal realities to light philosophy, Perle reminisced...
...which seems to me to have been generally overlooked: the U attitude, around which a whole school of humor has grown up. The classic story of this school is, I believe, the following: A young officer who had lived through the Battle of Dunkirk was being urged by his hostess at a dinner party to describe his experiences. With a shudder he replied: "The noise, my dear! And the people...
Washington's Hostess-with-the-Mostes' Perle Mesta turned up as a guest traveloguist at the Woman's National Democratic Club, startled the ladies with a tale of a "birth house" she saw in Russia in 1953. Perle's theory: the Soviets brainwash expectant mothers to achieve painless childbirth. In the maternity center she had observed 20 women, "none in pain. They took one or two deep breaths and the child was born." Added Perle: "They used the same brainwash for the mothers that they used for the war prisoners and soldiers [see SCIENCE...
...disappointed if you find yourself living with a lot of fat slobs. There is no unity to Adams outside the dining hall, but the food never sinks to the level of the dogmeat-and-pablum projectiles the central dining halls call "Salisbury steak." And Irene is the friendliest hostess...
...Blue Island a young suburban housewife's get-acquainted coffee pour turns into a cruel social fiasco when an older woman who has posed as a friend suddenly does a commercial spiel on furniture polish in mid-party, and later presses a collapsible mop on the sobbing hostess as a payoff for the captive customers...