Word: hostessing
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...Among the past year's chosen few: Britain's Princess Alexandra, Nicole Alphand (wife of France's ambassador to the U.S.), Manhattan Social Lioness Peggy Bancroft, Elizinha Moreira Salles (wife of Brazil's ambassador to the U.S.), Monaco's Princess Grace, Paris-Palm Beach Hostess Gloria Guinness, Cinemactresses Audrey Hepburn and Merle Oberon. Four other ladies rustled their way into permanent niches in the stratospheric Fashion Hall of Fame in recognition of their "faultless taste in dress without ostentation or extravagance." The quartet with tenure, who will no longer have to fret about crashing...
...summoned to the home of the chairman of the orchestra's executive committee and accused of "mistaken conduct." When the argument with the angry ladies became heated, Mahler's hostess drew a curtain, revealing a lawyer scribbling verbatim notes. Before Mahler left, he was forced to sign a legal document refusing him the right to choose programs and requiring him to dismiss a member of the orchestra who had kept him informed about what the others were saying about...
...time dinner was served, Hostess Holstein had lost all her anxiety, was as calm and unhurried as if a horde of servants had prepared the meal. That, in fact, was just what had happened. Except for the cooking water and seasoning, almost every bite of the appetizing meal she placed before her guests had been washed, cut, peeled, shelled, precooked, mixed and apportioned by "factory maids" long before it reached her hands. After cocktails and hors d'oeuvres (frozen), Mrs. Holstein began her meal with shrimp (frozen) in cocktail sauce (prepared), a green salad (fresh) with Swiss dressing (from...
...Tyrone Power's widow. A strict seating plan enforced by flacks and headwaiters deployed the guests at six reserved tables, each equipped with three massive tins of caviar and assorted beverages. Dressed remarkably simply (she wore no jewelry other than diamonds), and more beautiful than ever, Hostess Elizabeth Taylor had just made her hush-provoking entrance when a crisis faced her. A party of 15, variously described as headed by a Brooklyn dentist or a merry widow, who had seen the earlier show, refused to make way for some of Liz's guests...
...retirement (and starting his new jobs as a director of Corning Glass Works and president of Corning Glass Works International) to make the trip. New look on the diplomatic team: Daughter-in-Law Barbara Eisenhower, who will accompany Ike's aide and son, Major John, and act as hostess on behalf of Mamie Eisenhower. The First Lady, said Ike at his press conference, will stay home-"It is a little bit tough, I think, for her on that kind of a mission...