Word: hostessing
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Dripping real and fake jewelry, the vivacious, smartly gowned Countess endeared herself to Detroit's uppercrust as lecturer and hostess (she served sherry with a dash of British accent). She kept: 1) a bottle of invisible ink in her apartment kitchen, 2) a black-and-green notebook containing the names of 200 "in fluential" people living in the U.S. For two years - since U.S. agents first called on her for a long, heart-to-heart talk -the Countess has played a dangerous double game: she has bossed the spy ring with one hand, tipped...
...Emma ("Mamma") Leonhardt, a motherly, sixtyish boardinghouse keeper, played hostess at cozy little German "coffee klatches" for the entire group. The name and address of Mamma Leonhardt were found on one of the Nazi saboteurs who landed last June on Long Island, was later executed...
Divorced. Edward Beale McLean, 25, son of Hope Diamond-decked Evalyn Walsh McLean, rococo Washington hostess; by Ann Carroll Meem, 24, daughter of Washington Banker Harry Grant Meem; after five years of marriage; in Reno. He will marry Gloria Hatrick, a Manhattan model...
Died. Ellen Graham Bassel Davis, 74, wife of John W. Davis, Manhattan lawyer and onetime (1924) Democratic Presidential candidate; after long illness; in Locust Valley, L.I. In London during her husband's Ambassadorship after World War I, she was judged the handsomest embassy hostess in 50 years...
...Manhattan hostess learned last week that there is a "key countries approach" to postwar monetary stabilization. Said she: "I am furious. It took me all spring to pair off Lord Keynes and his bancor, and Harry White and his unitas. Now this...