Word: hostessing
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...even though the cost is greater than elsewhere. The gesture burnishes Esso's image in the eyes of the Italian people and the government. Small gestures are also important. No German businessman would ever think of dining at a customer's house without bringing flowers for the hostess; no Dutchman would ever ask a prospective client out to lunch without first weighing whether the guest might deem the offer a subtle bribe...
...Beekman Place or at her rambling country house near Amenia, N.Y., Mary Lasker is an elegant hostess, moves purposefully through her rooms, rapid-firing opinions and prodding listeners' attention with a frequent "Don't you agree?" or "Don't you think so?" Again and again she reverts to her sense of urgency about the need for more flowers and plants. "Urban renewers don't seem to realize that people need space for trees and shrubs. They need flowers in the spring and berries in the fall it reassures and comforts them. Central Park should have thousands...
Nicole Lair, a Parisienne who will be the hostess, said yesterday in her heavily accented English that "a coffee shop is very nice, but what can you do after you finish drinking coffee? I want to make a place that anybody would enjoy coming to--as long as they don't look like beatniks...
...dedicated to the gentle art of separating suckers from their cash. And who should be picked to lure loot-laden tourists to the New York World's Fair when it opens next week? Of course. Naming the hot-eyed Latin actress New York City's official summer hostess, Mayor Robert Wagner, 55, cooed: "Chita Rivera symbolizes in a wonderful way the warm welcome we want to extend to each of our guests." Fair warning...
Died. Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary, the Dowager Princess Royal, 67, only daughter of England's King George V, who hoisted high the banner of noblesse oblige, first as a canteen worker in World War I, then as a nurse, still later as World War II hostess of a soldiers' convalescent home (her own), finally as head of Britain's Girl Scouts and Red Cross; of a heart attack; at Harewood House, near Leeds, England...