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...cranberry cook, like most of the help, is Norweigian, while the customers are almost all native Bostonians. Each guest was greeted by a hostess, who was also my adviser on what's good that's Norwegian. Among her suggestions was whale steak. I replied that pickled herring would suffice. As I gulped water she apologized for the herrings' appearance; "The goats' choose sauce is all gone." Relieved, I asked her if there were my more special Norwegian recipes. Her answer was a copy of Ola's Norwegian Cook Book describing cucumber sandwiches, with the bread dipped in sherry, the vaguely...
...pudding. After lapping up the last of the rum, I forgave my Scandinavian friends for serving French pastry and said goodbye to the waiter, the dishwasher, the cold chef, the hot chef, and the just plain chefs. I paid my check, $1.50, with one dessert, and told my hostess I'd be back on May 17 when the patio would be open. The seventeenth is of course, Norwegian Independence...
After Sonja Henie, onetime world figure-skating champion, now a shrewd ice-show promoter, tossed a $15,000 circus costume party at Giro's nightclub in Hollywood, one of her 200 guests, who had wowed the gala by coming as himself in lace cuffs, squired Hostess Henie to another nightspot. There Sonja posed cozily, cheek to cheek, with her escort, Schmalz Pianist Liberace, still himself in the exotic resplendence of a nubbed-silk dinner jacket and polka-dot shirt...
...19th annual Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball. On stage, young ladies dressed in white and escorted by formally dressed young men moved rapidly between rows of tall tapers, curtsied, and made their way past a ringside table where sat a handsome woman who was, in a sense, their hostess. Watching the debutantes with intense interest, Jacqueline Cochran, famed flyer and businesswoman, recalled that when she was 18 she had already been working for ten years and was, she guessed, "the sole support of several people." Now, as head of Jacqueline Cochran Cosmetics, Inc., she was the cotillion's sponsor...
...luncheon at New York's executive mansion in Albany was the roundabout tipoff that Governor Thomas E. Dewey had formally conceded the defeat of his hand-picked successor, New York's Republican Senator Irving S. Ives, in last month's election. Mrs. Frances Dewey played gracious hostess to Mrs. Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, second wife of the state's Democratic Governor-elect, Railroadynast W. (for William) Averell Harriman.*A sometime interior decora tor, Marie inspected the official silver service, then looked over the mansion with a practiced eye. She allowed that "it doesn't need...