Word: hostessing
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Fortnight after bidding Jacqueline Kennedy arrivederci, the villagers of Ravello this week turned out to say goodbye to Jackie's sister and hostess, Lee Radziwill, 29. As Lee and her husband, Polish Prince Stanislas Radziwill, packed up for the trip home to London, it turned out that their sprawling Mediterranean villa had been more than a summer pleasure dome; it also served the Roman Catholic Radziwills as a convenient base from which to seek Vatican annulment of a previous marriage...
...premises with Jackie and little Caroline were Jackie's sister Lee Radziwill, Lee's three-year-old son and two-year-old daughter, a dozen or so U.S. Secret Service agents, a score of Italian cops, and an ample household staff. At home Caroline played hostess to some of the village children-the daughters of a carpenter, a boatman, a laborer. None of them spoke English, and Caroline does not yet speak Italian. But in the international language of kids, they communicated perfectly...
...Whatever push he might still give Congress was not of much use now. The major battles were over, and some key ones lost-but there was international politicking to be done, and without stirring from Washington. Accompanied by his mother. Rose Kennedy, who is the President's official hostess while Jackie is on Cape Cod, he went out to Washington National Airport to welcome Ecuador's President Carlos Julio Arosemena. In two days of receptions, lunches and talks, the two Presidents discussed U.S.-Ecuadorian problems, but Kennedy often turned the conversation to the crisis in Peru, where Washington...
...weekend there will be another punch and recorded music program in the Matthews Hall Common Rooms. On Saturday from 3-5 and on Sunday from 4-6 p.m. there will be punch and recorded music and on Sunday from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Nandini Joshi will be the hostess...
Charity balls have changed the pattern of Manhattan social life. There are still some private dances and private dinners, but today Society goes to these public functions because, as New York Hostess Drue Heinz says, "everybody else does. It's an enormous system into which Society has got swept up." Last year there were some 300 charity balls in New York City between October and May-an average of almost ten a week...