Word: hostessing
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...Virginia countryside, where she rode to the hounds on a brown and white horse named Rufus. The hounds found no foxes, managed only to scatter a few deer. Then, turning from riding breeches to a white satin sheath skirt, a black overblouse and diamond earrings, Jackie was hostess at another of the White House parties she has initiated for performers of the fine arts. The guest of honor: famed Composer and occasional Pianist Igor Stravinsky, 79, a native of Russia who has been a U.S. citizen since 1946. The guests, including New York Philharmonic Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Chicago Merchant...
...Lausanne, she plays hostess to any of her favorite people who happen to be passing through: Truman Capote, Yul Brynner, David Niven, Noel Coward. At Lake Worth, the Guinnesses can usually count on people in the Kennedy orbit, including the fun-loving Kennedys themselves; at one party, held when Jacqueline Kennedy was in Florida recently, Gloria and Mrs. Kennedy had a high old time doing the Twist* on the tile floors by the patio. Says Gloria: "It's a gay, amusing life...
...women's club that Democrat John Kennedy had "a very, very soft record on Communism." She attached a qualifier that only added injury to insult: "This man is not a Communist-at least I don't think he is a Communist." Al though an accomplished and popular hostess, Doloris had a disconcerting habit of introducing one guest to another by saying: "He's a good American...
...engagement was to Actress-Dancer Juliet Prowse, 25, the slim and beautiful South African whom Frankie met in 1959 when they were working together on Can-Can. Since then she has often acted as hostess at his dinner parties, and has been his frequent if not constant companion. "I've had lots of dates with other men," Juliet said candidly last week. "Elvis Presley, for one. But Frank and I have always been mature about our romance. We don't go for this teen-age bit about going steady and all that jazz. Frank and I just enjoy...
FROM THE DESK OF L.B.J., OR THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE . . . The real guests, of course, spend the rest of the party trying to find out who were those fabulous people. The hostess merely lights a cigarette from the special matchbook and smiles...