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...their marriage was over. As time passed, private relations in general deteriorated even further. Polio was for Franklin the permanent blow that Lucy Mercer was for Eleanor. He spent increasing amounts of time seeking cures in the South, especially Warm Springs, where Missy LeHand was his selfless secretary and hostess...
Divorced. Vincente Minnelli, 68, Oscar-winning Hollywood director (Gigi, 1958) and father, by his previous marriage to Judy Garland, of Singer-Actress Liza Minnelli; and Denise Minnelli, 40, best-dressed and bejeweled Beverly Hills hostess; after ten years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
Knowing precisely when one should arrive is one of mankind's smaller but more persistent social problems. In New York and most other urban areas of the East, for example, an invitation for dinner at 8 really means 8:30; the hostess would be stunned, perhaps even destroyed, by prompt arrival. A "sixish" party at East Coast summer resorts seldom begins before 7-and guests are on time if they show up before midnight. In the West or Midwest, however, the time declared on an invitation normally means what it says, within five or ten minutes...
...minutes early. To be too exact is to be, well, a bit Teutonic, but to be more than ten minutes late without a good excuse is inexcusably rude. In South America and the Latin countries of Europe, however, it is almost too difficult to be too late. If a hostess wants her guests to be prompt -meaning half an hour or so after the stated time-she specifies an "English hour," or sometimes in Latin America, an "American hour." The Russians are equally relaxed about time. In the Middle East, an invitation often does not even include the time...
Dressed to the nines, Rose started making speeches as a teenager, often replacing her retiring mother as official hostess. Still, she managed to get all A's in high school and qualified for Wellesley at 15. Considering her too young for college, her father sent her instead to the Madames of the Sacred Heart. The experience transformed her from a dutiful Catholic into an intensely religious woman...