Word: hostessing
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Working seven days a week, including Christmas, Forrestal had little social life. He prided himself on being able to attend a cocktail party, greet the hostess, down a martini, exchange a few pleasantries and take his leave-all in eight minutes. At 34, Forrestal married a New York socialite and Vogue editor, Josephine Ogden, whose friends were all café society. They had two sons, but before long the couple were leading separate lives. Forrestal, who avoided emotional attachments all his life, hardly even spoke to his boys until they were ready to enter college...
Begin with a sauna bath. Even Charlton Heston likes saunas. Install a bidet in your bathroom. Love Tom Jones. Adore Barbra Streisand. Get a dress shirt with hundreds of layers of overlapping eyelet ruffles. When you are hostess, wear evening skirts. Serve baked marrow bones. Appear in your own hair, because wigs have had it. So has LSD. Don't wear mink anywhere but to bed (sable is safe enough elsewhere), and don't ever mention Cleopatra...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). A program devoted to young artists, including Singers Liza Minelli and Jack Jones, Pianist Susan Starr, Folk Singers Ian and Sylvia, and Dancer Violette Verdy, with Jane Wyman as hostess. Color...
Because girls often influence a boy's choice of an auto, Ford has set up an "airline hostess advisory panel," which is invited to Detroit to tour Ford's plants and styling studios and offer its opinions. Ford features pictures of the seven hostesses in its ads in such magazines as Seventeen to show that women have a word in Ford's looks...
Warm Crowds. Returning to Washington, Kennedy reviewed plans for a January fund-raising banquet on the third anniversary of his inauguration, joined Jackie in greeting 700 guests at the annual White House reception for the Justices of the Supreme Court. It was Jackie's first appearance as hostess at an official White House function since the death last August of her infant son. And then, next day, John and Jacqueline Kennedy left for Texas...