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...Robert Low Bacon is the leading Republican hostess, a tall, tweedy woman with an air of conscious aristocracy who, in the nervous summer of 1948, was heiress presumptive to Mrs. Mesta's crown. At her small, select salon in the John Marshall house there is no foolishness about fun or songs. Each table is assigned a topic of conversation and their hostess sees that her guests stick...
Center Ring. The main ring in Washington's three-ring circus is the official circle. Here are the big governmental names which the successful hostess, of whatever circle, must catch. Most of them are ready to be caught: they hold offices of high prestige and medium salaries, which limit their own powers of entertaining. In, this ring, Perle Mesta is supreme...
...Party. Perle does not like to be considered just a hostess nowadays. She insists she is a kind of "across-the-table political worker." Says she solemnly: "The entertaining I do is my way of serving the President and the party." But Perle has made the Democratic Party her party only since 1942, when she walked out on the Republicans because of their treatment of Willkie ("They rushed me in to see Dewey, but they couldn't budge...
...Just Act Dumb." Perle admits that the duties of "unofficial hostess" to the President are heavy. "I have to know exactly what's on his mind and what he thinks of people all the time," she explains. "I know, too. I don't have to call him and ask." Then, too, people pester her. "They all know I can get to the White House any time I need to. Lots of them try to pump me to find out who's going to be fired and who's going to get hired." She winked. "I just...
Rich, gusty, vigorous Perle Mesta obviously served Harry Truman well as Washington's No. i hostess, and Truman was obviously grateful. It seemed a very satisfactory arrangement for both...