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...hostess refilled his glass for the third time. "Be careful," he winked at her, "or I'll start to split infinitives...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Visiting Novelist | 11/29/1957 | See Source »

...latest New York or Paris fashions. The men go off to the salamlik to dine, exchange stories and fret about the price of oil. When the party is over, a servant notifies a woman guest that her husband is ready. She dons her veil and shroud, thanks her hostess and departs without ever seeing her host. But next day she may slip out in her car, doff her aba as soon as she is beyond sight of the town and take the wheel herself for a drive to the beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOSLEM WORLD: Beyond the Veil | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...millionaire woman, the hostess, who will not now speak to Fast because "she considers me a renegade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Night of the Party | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...Reprieve. Graham and his team left their mark on celebrities as well as on New York's anonymous multitudes. Box 31 at the Garden was held by crusade headquarters for visiting VIPs, and the Garden management itself reserved two boxes every night. Such disparate personalities as Perle ("Hostess with the Mostes' ") Mesta and Singer Ethel Waters came whenever they could. For Perle Mesta this meant some ten visits, "whenever I'm in New York. Billy is a perfectly marvelous man who is doing a great deal of good. I plan to give a dinner for him, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crusade Windup | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

Died. Thelma Chrysler Foy, fiftyish, upper-crust society hostess and patron of the arts, daughter of the late automagnate Walter P. Chrysler, wife of Chrysler Director Byron C. Foy, repeatedly voted among the world's ten best-dressed women; of leukemia; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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