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...with Annie, Tanis & Loelia. In London, hostess-of-the-week was Anne (Annie) Geraldine Mary O'Neill, Viscountess Rothermere, energetic wife of the second Viscount (Daily Mail) Rothermere, who organized a "treasure hunt." This was a farewell gesture for some visiting friends-Howard and Tanis Dietz (she is the former Tanis Guinness, of the stout Guinnesses; he is MGM's publicity potentate who originated Leo the Lion). When Anne's Mayfairest guests rolled up (sixish) at the Rothermeres' Warwick House behind St. James's Palace, they found that no ordinary treasure hunt awaited them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How to Become Extinct | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Evalyn Walsh McLean, Washington's late, free-handed hostess, turned out to have been a rather cautious grandmother. Her will distributed her estate (including the Hope Diamond) equally among her seven grandchildren-but it left plenty of time for everybody to thresh everything out (including the distribution of the 44¼-carat diamond). The divvy was not to be made until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Golden West | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Wellesley College has a neat little course for men lucky enough to have a hostess to buy them in. The fairways and greens are in top condition, the holes are interesting--wooded and rolling--and there is never a crowd...

Author: By Paul Sack, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

Died. Evalyn Walsh McLean, 60, Washington's most famed and lavish hostess, owner of the reputedly unlucky 44¼-carat Hope Diamond (estimated value: anything up to $2 million) ; of pneumonia; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Like an efficient hostess, Colombia is preparing well ahead of time for the ninth Pan American Conference, scheduled tentatively for December. A primary move has been to rid Bogotá's streets of beggars, which last week were strangely free of the lame and the halt-result of a preconference roundup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Bogota Beggars | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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