Word: hostessing
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Tuesday, April 7 BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Hostess Ginger Rogers, singers (Robert Merrill, James McCracken, Hoagy Carmichael, Helen O'Connell) and dancers (Edward Villella, Patricia McBride...
...even tries to match her hosts insult for insult. Hostess: "We thought all Americans were gangsters." Honey: "And we thought all Englishmen were gentlemen." She usually loses anyway because they merely enjoy...
Died. Susan Edwards Wagner, 54, wife of New York's Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner, a quiet blonde from the staunchly Republican suburb of Greenwich, Conn., who, as hostess in the past ten years at Manhattan's executive residence, Gracie Mansion, entertained expedient thousands who roamed through the house pinching souvenirs; of lung cancer; in Manhattan...
Ellen Rometsch, a party girl of peculiar tastes, was sent back home to West Germany last summer after the FBI began investigating her sex habits. "Elly" is remembered as a sometime hostess at the Quorum Club, a Washington watering spot for lobbyists and Congressmen that Baker helped organize. Though Baker, as well as other men about Washington, probably breathed a sigh of relief when Elly left, he apparently had no part in getting her deported. She was subsequently divorced by her West German army sergeant husband on grounds of "conduct contrary to matrimonial rules...
...court dominates the city's social life. At the Aristocrats' Ball, held earlier this month in the Vier Jahreszeiten Hotel, only those patricians with at least 32 titled ancestors were admitted. But for all their blueblood, Munich's aristocrats are far from haughty, and the nontitled hostess can usually decorate her soirée with a few barons and perhaps a prince or two. It is easier to get a Wittelsbach to dinner than it is a Siemens, whose ancestors were simple mechanics before Werner von Siemens founded the electrical works that today is Munich...