Word: hostessing
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Readymade for the status-seeking Washington hostess who is worried lest her cocktail party fall flat: the You-Rent-a-Cocktail Party Crowd. Invented by Writer C.D.B. Bryan for the funny crew of a funny supper-club routine at the Captain's Table in Georgetown, the device is described thus...
Some Jelly Sandwiches. For one thing, there was a joint birthday party for Caroline Kennedy, just turning four, and John Jr., 1. On hand were 15 friends and cousins-along with a woolly black monkey named Susie. Hostess Jacqueline Kennedy had hoped to borrow a Baltimore Zoo chimpanzee with a knack for drawing pictures, but she learned that the artist-animal was undependable around children. So Susie was invited instead. She shook hands with the children and mimicked them. After the monkey came other party treats, such as tricycling in the marbled White House corridors and watching animated cartoons...
Cruise of a Lifetime. At first, it appeared that Harvey had committed suicide in a spasm of grief. His wife, Mary Dene, 34, a former TWA airline hostess and a bride of four months, had died just five days earlier, in the sinking of the chartered, 60-ft. ketch Bluebelle, which her husband skippered. Julian Harvey had been plucked from the sea in the yacht's dinghy with the body of René Duperrault, 7, another passenger...
...evening started with the President presiding over half the guests at a dinner in the State Dining Room, while Jackie was hostess to the others in the Blue Room. There were some Melachrino echoes of the past: the Air Force Strolling Strings (20 wall-to-wall violinists and a harpist) playing Victor Herbert dinner music. Then, after dinner, everyone repaired to the East Room, and the tone and tempo changed abruptly. Casals and his noted colleagues, Violinist Alexander Schneider and Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski, had decided to forgo the dinner in favor of a short rest and a warm-up rehearsal...
After a publicity-winning preview sale to her perennial Palm Beach hostess, Rose Kennedy, chic Helene Arpels, fiftyish, a regular titlist in the world's ten-best-dressed-women stakes, opened to the public a gemlike boutique in Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel. Located just two blocks from where her estranged husband, Louis Arpels of Van Cleef & Arpels, traffics in tiaras, the new establishment stocks such exotica as 17th century quill pens with ballpoint nibs ($13.45) and square-toed velvet bedroom slippers for men ($24). Cooed Mme. Arpels, gesturing at the merchandise with a ring-finger diamond that...