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Died. Victoria Geaney, 69, for 19 years the hostess, manager and permanent resident of Blair House, the presidential guesthouse for visiting firechiefs; of a heart attack; in Blair House...
Anne Miner's timothy in love is much better than her last published work; Deborah Eibel's Elderly Hostess reads like a vaguely interesting passage of prose chopped up and strung down the page in small pieces (like the tail of a kite); David Berman's Meletus in the Provinces evinces a competence which is entirely devoid of charm or excitement...
Little Caroline Kennedy was almost an assistant hostess. Togged out in a white organdy dress embroidered with pink and green rosebuds ("It's my very best"), she had a smile for every visitor and tapped her foot delicately when the Marine Band played her own request: Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Said the First Lady, pleased by her daughter's White House social debut: "I'd much rather she learned these things firsthand than have her hear us talking about them upstairs...
Marriage Revealed. Margaret Wright Bedford Bancroft, 28, dazzling blonde lioness of the undergo international set, Standard Oil (N.J.) millionheiress and partypatetic hostess (sitdown dinner for 60); and Prince Charles d'Arenberg, 55, scion of one of France's first families, whom Peggy once dubbed "my little mouse"; she for the second time, he for the first; in Massachusetts...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Paul Whiteman conducts Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on a show also featuring Roberta Peters, Carol Lawrence and Polly Bergen as hostess. Color...