Word: hostessing
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...ignorance and fluency, the poetry of those androgynous literary ladies with three names who produce a kind of verbal ectoplasm to order as a waiter dishes up spaghetti-only to find that the fiercest of these, a wealthy huntress of small, seedy lions (such as himself) ... is his hostess for the evening...
Married. Lotte Adenauer, 28, West Germany's first lady, daughter and official hostess of widowed Chancellor Konrad Adenauer; and Heribert Multhaupt, 32, Aachen architect; in a civil ceremony, to be followed by a Roman Catholic wedding in Bonn Cathedral on May 11; in Rhöndorf, Germany...
Since her second husband, Arthur Bowring, died in 1944, Mrs. Bowring has bossed the ranch. Equally at home in a western saddle or as the hostess at a formal dinner, she is up at 5 a.m. with the hands, often helps with branding, haying and riding the range. Last month, she missed the Nebraska Republican Founders' Day ceremonies because a sudden snowstorm came up and she was helping to drive some of her 700 Herefords 10 miles to a feed lot. Her philosophy: "I've not been one who thought the Lord should make life easy...
Died. Countess Dorothy (Taylor) di Frasso, 66, fun-loving international hostess; of a heart attack; in a roomette aboard a train taking her from Las Vegas, Nev. back to her Hollywood playground. Inheriting an estimated $12 million from her father, a New York leather manufacturer, she got her title with her second husband, Italy's Count Carlo di Frasso. A fervent believer in the strenuous life, she once hired prizefighters to entertain her guests! joined Cinemactor Gary Cooper on a big-game safari into the African jungle, with the late Mobster Bugsy Siegel set out in a schooner...
...Santa Monica, Calif., Cinemactress Gail (The Lawless) Russell, 29, recently named by Cinemactor John Wayne's wife Esperanza, now divorced, as John's impromptu hostess for most of one night, wheeled up behind two cops' prowl car and blasted away with her horn. Hauled in for a sobriety test, Gail, fetchingly decked out in dungarees, flunked, spent most of the night as an impromptu guest of the city jail...