Word: hostessing
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...week's end, after tramping through the Capitol, taking a little trip on the presidential yacht Williamsburg, and turning down an invitation to a reception by the Missouri Society, the ladies and their hostess were ready to call it a mutually satisfying experience.* The ladies had reminded Bess Truman of Independence. For months to come, they would remind Independence of Bess Truman. They had played bridge just once...
...hostess' kitchen, Clem scribbled notes as Mrs. Franc L. McCluer expertly handled a 25-lb. Callaway County ham. Out at the Dick Scruggs farm, where it came from, Kitty Scruggs told her: "Between you and me and the gatepost, this sugar-cured Callaway the folks so cherish originally came from Boone County. The recipe came to Callaway when I came as Dick's bride." Mrs. Roy Anthony, in charge of the angel food cakes, scoffed: "Worried? Why, no. I've never had a failure, so why would I now, when it's for Mr. Churchill?" Grocer...
Died. Maud Potter de Reuter Bennett, 80, Philadelphia-born arbitress of continental elegance; in Paris. She was hostess for and later wife of James Gordon Bennett Jr. in his Paris home, Versailles lodge, Beaulieu villa and on his yacht Lysistrata, journalistic aide to the absolute monarch of the New York Herald, whose feats and beats (most famed: Stanley's "discovery" of Livingstone) made journalistic history...
Gloomy Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, second Viscount Rothermere, found her delightful. After he divorced his first wife, she became his weekend party hostess at Mereworth Castle in Kent...
Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, surprise-partied her newlywed personal maid and chauffeur at her Bel-Air, Calif, estate with a guest list of 50 chefs, valets, butlers, maids. Cinemactor Gary Grant, the hostess' estranged husband, sent his valet with a check for the happy couple. Hit of the evening-aside from the mistress' serving-was the little performance of sleight-of-hand tricks by Edwards, butler to Lady Mendl. "Miss Hutton did practically everything but wash the dishes," observed one breathless, gratified guest. The party over, "Miss Hutton" and her house guest, the Baroness de Rothschild...