Word: hostessing
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Married. Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies, 71, Washington hostess, Post Toasties heiress worth nearly $100 million, who in 1937 went to Moscow as the wife of the late (TIME, May 19) Joseph E. Davies, then U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, where she lavishly displayed the graces of capitalism to admiring comrades; and suave, silver-haired Herbert A. May, 66, senior vice president of Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Air Brake Co., a lustrous host and lover of good clubs, who, according to friends, "spends money beautifully" and carries himself "as if he were posing for his own statue...
FIRST NEGRO STEWARDESS aboard a U.S.-flag international airline will go to work with Trans World Airlines. She is Margaret Grant, 21, who will graduate next month from Manhattan's Hunter College (where she majors in psychology) and enter T.W.A.'s hostess training school at Kansas City...
...full Washington treatment this week is Spain's handsome, unmarried Prince Juan Carlos, 20, in on an unofficial visit for five days of capital sights, parties and interviews. Even the hostess with the mostes', peripatetic Party Giver Perle Mesta, gets her chance (for one hour) at the young prince, rumored to be Dictator Francisco Franco's choice for the Spanish throne. Said Perle: "I'm going to have a combination tea and cocktail hour. What I've planned to do is have the prince meet . . . some of the Republicans and Democrats here in Washington. This...
...Martita Hunt returns in the concluding play as a middle-aged hostess to the international set, armed with elaborate paste jewelry and a burglar-chauffeur...
...American history. In its statement, the Smithsonian said that the gown once belonged to Dolley (not Dolly) Madison, wife of the nation's fourth President, justified the spelling by recent research at the University of Chicago on the James Madison papers, proving that the famed White House hostess had indeed used the "e" herself. Among references due for a change: the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which calls her Dorothy, the Encyclopedia Americana, which lists her as Dolly...