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...have, after the White House, the most elegant suite in the capital-the State Department's Madison Room, which is furnished with American antiques. But vast embassy receptions and cocktail parties are not really Nancy's style. "I'd fall over backwards if she became the hostess with the mostes' " said one old friend. Nancy prefers small dinners with six to eight informed, articulate friends. She smokes a lot but drinks little. Though she does not fuss over gourmet food, she is a competent cook. Not that she spent much time at the stove...
...other hostess there was her lover of 40 years, Alice B. Toklas. Toklas was the wife in this enduring homosexual partnership. She marketed, cooked, gardened, hired and fired the help (frequently), crocheted, talked with other wives while their husbands were listening to Stein. As Hemingway remarked, Toklas was also the executioner. When Gertrude was bored or insulted by someone, it was Alice who rang up and told the offender not to come round again...
...blue and white Aeroflot TU-154 jet airliner taxied to the far end of the terminal at Frankfurt's Rhein-Main Airport. From the first-class exit emerged a husky 55-year-old man with a distinctive fringe of red beard. At the bottom of the ramp, a German hostess handed him a single pink rose; he smiled faintly and bowed over her hand. As police held a swarm of newsmen at bay, the traveler got into a Mercedes-Benz limousine that whisked him to the tiny village of Langenbroich, 100 miles away. Arriving at his host's small farmhouse...
...interview, she observed that "you have to have a bit of malice to be a good hostess," and she has been a very good hostess indeed. "I'm afraid I'm rather malevolent about people," she says without a hint of contrition. Embroidered on a small pillow in a second-floor drawing room is her favorite maxim: "If you haven't got anything good to say about anyone, come...
Pets and Guests. Surrounded by four German shepherds, five cats and two birds, Colleen and her two sons by Scott live in South Salem, along with a housekeeper and assorted transient and semiresidential house guests. Some of the latter arrive at night while their hostess is asleep and greet her at breakfast, which she always prepares for the boys, even if she then returns to bed until 3 p.m. Will Dewhurst's new post-Moon status affect all this? "At 49, with nearly three decades in the theater," she says, "being called a star doesn't have...