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...Hostess, mistress, mother of Nohant was the famed George Sand, the beautiful woman who walked like a handsome man. It was far more than her literary eminence that drew the brilliant men of a generation to Nohant-though she fascinated a wide public with what she wrote, and left collected works that ran to 96 volumes. Her personality and the world she built around it were of such fascination and complexity that scores of guidebooks have served only to complicate the intricacy. France's André Maurois has now written a biography that is both the finest study ever...
Spawned in Chicago's Congress and Auditorium Hotels when sewage got into food rooms and water pipes, it was not detected until at least 1,400 victims had scattered across the U.S., caused close to 100 deaths. (Best-known victim: Nightclub Hostess Texas Guinan.) With earlier detection and better drugs, South Bend need fear no such disaster...
...Boston's Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich was "the only person in existence who had seen Harriet Beecher Stowe drunk" It happened when youthful, innocent Hostess Aldrich decided to impart a higher tone to her claret cup by adding the contents of a curiously shaped bottle which she understood came from a Carthusian monastery." The day was warm, and after downing two tumblers of the brew, Visitor Stowe had the illusion that she had become a sailor. Her "berth" (the sofa), she complained, was "going up and down" so tempestuously that she had difficulty in climbing into it. Her last...
...Matthias Grünewald's great 16th century altarpiece hangs on his study wall, and his conference room is decorated with statues of German saints. Since his wife Armgard died four months ago, his 42-year-old daughter Christel has kept house for him, and she is the hostess at his frequent official dinners...
...They Like Ike" the visionary number of 1949 has been replaced by "The International Rag," evidently less partisan. "You're Just in Love," which held up the show for six encores in New York, is repeated often enough to satisfy even the most dogged. And the first song, "The Hostess With the Mostes' on the Ball" is a good-natured introduction to Miss Merman and the spirit of the film...