Word: hostessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face cuts, the pilots jumped from their seats, ran back into the cabin, helped their passengers out the front way because the cabin door was jammed by the wing. All the passengers could move under their own power, and only three had to be hospitalized. More seriously injured was Hostess Irene Coates, who had three cracked vertebrae, had to be carried. Flying from a field long criticized as too tight, too thoroughly bordered by obstructions, Russell Wright had come off better than anyone had a right to expect. He had also figured in the first of eight serious U.S. airline...
Surrealist Dali suggested to his hostess that it would be fun to "enchant" Hampton Manor into a surrealist paradise. Mrs. Crosby was enchanted with the idea. Together they set to work. Their plans called for gigantic statues of daddy longlegs with the faces of Greek goddesses and medieval heroines, "a headless woman from the recipe of a surrealist magician of the Middle Ages," perfumed fountains, loudspeakers making moans from the bushes, corpselike manikins with flowing hair trailing in the waters of a pond. Said Mrs. Crosby: "I am doing this enchanted garden as an experiment with the white magic...
...wounded was 30. British First Secretary James Lambert was badly burned, slightly cut. When Minister Rendel came bounding down the Pera Palace stairs to see what all the noise and smoke was about he found his private secretary, Miss Gertrude Ellis, bleeding from serious wounds. His daughter and Legation Hostess, Ann Rendel, 21, had been knocked down by the force of the concussion, lay dazed but uninjured on the floor. Her father sent her upstairs to get his personal documents...
...than in the golden river days made famous by Mark Twain. There was less romance but more business (19,680,176 tons in the first nine months of 1940). The Greene Line got its share. No longer active as a pilot, Ma Greene now serves as symbol and occasional hostess for the line, lets her two sons run things. Last week they announced that the line had set an all-time record last year by carrying 102,438 tons (up 10% from 1939, 19.5% from 1938). No profit figures were disclosed, but river men knew Ma Greene's line...
...Harbor hotel whose dance music had been supplied by Boston Symphony men. Now Eastern dowagers would sooner serve gin and ginger ale at their parties than employ non-Davis bands: during a recent Newport season, Meyer Davis played at 59 out of 60 top-flight parties. (The eccentric 60th hostess hired Paul Whiteman.) More than half the young ladies at last month's Philadelphia Assembly-oldest annual party in the U. S.-had come out to Davis melody. Meyer Davis has played through five administrations at the White House, although he had few dates during...