Word: hostessing
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...women it means beauty, and not too cool; if not beauty, wealth; if not wealth, intelligence; if not intelligence, a sure sense of fashion; if not fashion, good works in the form of executive ability in charitable and educational projects. As one hostess summarized it: "You can be either very rich, very aristocratic, very talented, or very famous." To this, the Kennedys, with their glittering evenings for Nobel laureates and French cultural arbiters, have added another significant category-"powerful...
Toward the end of October, Ceezee moves into the Guests' Manhattan apartment on Sutton Place (TIME. April 13) to take up her role as hostess and leader of fashion in this entertainment and fashion center of the world. For the past 14 years she has bought all her clothes at Mainbocher, with the exception of a dress or two she may pick up in Paris. Mainbocher, the classicist of simple lines and uncluttered elegance at stratospheric prices, and Ceezee were made for each other; her bright coloring and trim figure flatter his clothes, while their understated chic expresses Ceezee...
Miss Universe Beauty Pageant (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). With Dave Garroway as anchor man, Arlene Francis as hostess, and someone pretty as winner...
...White House portal, and a tanned Mamie Eisenhower, in a mottled print dress, alighted for her first homecoming in a year and a day. "Hello, Bruce," said the former First Lady to the doorman. She hailed a covey of capital newspaperwomen, then shook hands with her hostess Jackie, ashimmer in a green shantung sheath. After a peek at the refurbished Red Room, Mamie sat down in the Oval Room over raspberry tarts and tea with seven other senior leaguers working on a $30 million drive for the National Culture Center, hopefully to bring more performing arts to the nation...
...closed-session workshop was restricted to the wives of conductors and managers, with no minutes allowed. According to one leak, the qualities voted most desirable in a musical wife were musical background and talent as a hostess. Biggest faults: taking stands on too many issues and bragging about husbands. Warned one conductor's wife, who found herself smiling icily at an antagonistic newspaper critic all through a cocktail party: "You have to be impervious to insult...