Word: hostessing
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...longer [say just] a 'pinch' of this and a 'dash' of that." Some papers provide their editors with elaborate test kitchens, but most food writers try their recipes at home, must be ready to answer the phone at all hours to rescue a distraught hostess trapped in mid-soufflé. Says Louisville Courier-Journal's Cissy Gregg: "They call me sometimes at 2 or 3 a.m. and say 'Look, I'm making such and such and this is where I am. Now what's next...
...Widower Knight has two lovely blonde daughters, Carolyn, 20, a student at the University of Southern California, and Marilyn, 26, who is Mrs. Robert Eaton, wife of a Los Angeles attorney. Californians were immediately intrigued by the prospect that one of the daughters will serve as father's hostess and thus be the new first lady of California...
...very small piece, you don't have much to spare." Such exchanges continue with a regularity and plane of wit that is indeed wonderful. The reductio ad absurdum of "Ways and Means," a parasite couple of the international set who induce a burglar to rob their hostess is a pleasant cordial to end the film. Valeric Hobson and Nigel Patrick play the leads...
Still energetically sightseeing in the sixth month of his world tour, Japan's 19-year-old Crown Prince Akihito moved up the Atlantic seaboard after his week in Washington and Williamsburg, Va. He toured Philadelphia (his hostess-guide: Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, once his tutor in Tokyo), took the Pennsylvania Turnpike at 75 m.p.h.. and, at the R.C.A. laboratory in Princeton, N.J., watched color television and inspected the egg of a sea urchin (magnified 10,000 times by an electron microscope). In New York the Prince turned up at a Yankees-Browns night game, was a red-carpet...
What Every Hostess Knows. In Saint John, N.B., the Telegraph-Journal reported: "Mrs. Howard Geldart entertained the members of St. Paul's Church Mothers Union . . . Covers were laid for 30 guests. Friends of Mrs. Geldart will regret to learn that she is now a patient in the Saint John General Hospital...