Word: hostessing
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...contest his claim that the best shoofly pie is made by Dutch Haven Amish Stuff Inc., in Soudersburg, Pa., or that the best dimensional paper sculptures are fashioned by an insomniac housewife in San Diego, Calif, or that the best herbal medicine man holds forth -between nonherbal snacks on Hostess Twinkies-in Glenwood...
Returning to California, she married twice, to a policeman and a lawyer, and divorced twice. She tried going into the family business, acting, but without great success. She drifted into what she calls "the talk business," serving as hostess on TV talk shows in San Francisco, then Los Angeles. For the past 18 months she has been editor of Showcase U.S.A., a slick bimonthly designed to promote sales abroad...
...heads of state, including the luxurious Hotel Cipriani, where the Carters stayed in a three-room suite. Nearby canals were closed to gondolas, and frogmen periodically searched the murky waters for mines and bombs. Plainclothesmen, including the U.S. Secret Service, mingled with tourists. For security reasons the Carters' hostess, Danielle Gardner, wife of U.S. Ambassador Richard Gardner, was forbidden to take Rosalynn and Amy to many landmarks, including Murano island, which is headquarters for the city's famed glassblowers. But Rosalynn and Amy were scheduled to visit St. Mark's Square and the Doges' Palace...
...land and take off not just hours but even days late. One foreign traveler waited in a Moscow airport for 17 hours before his flight to Tbilisi was announced. His airport bus proceeded to roll along the tarmac and stop at three different planes; at each one the ground hostess would yell out: "Is this the plane to Tbilisi?" The bus finally came to the fourth-and right-plane. There was only one problem: no pilot. The traveler finally abandoned the effort at 3 a.m., luggage unclaimed and Tbilisi unvisited...
...anything to do with current events onstage was when she won an oratorical contest at Staples High School in Westport, Conn., called "The Voice of Democracy." But guess who's coming to 8.4 million U.S. homes for breakfast, electronically speaking, for the next three weeks while Today show Hostess Jane Pauley goes off to marry and honeymoon with Cartoonist Garry Trudeau? Hartley, best known for her low-key and highly successful Polaroid camera commercials with James Garner, will handle interviews and other chores as Pauley's standin. "I'm using brain cells I haven't used...