Word: hostessing
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...worse, seems to have happened at TV Guide when it received a program listing for a now defunct local talk show on San Francisco-Oakland's KTVU. The notice said that guests for the show on Sept. 20,1968, would include Pat Montandon, a well-known Bay Area hostess who had written a book about giving imaginative parties on lean budgets, and an unnamed masked prostitute. TV Guide's condensed version: "From party girl to call girl. Scheduled guest: TV personality Pat Montandon and author of How To Be a Party Girl." Montandon sued, alleging that...
Winston gagged over his mother's unconventionality. He choked over women's suffrage. After a rowdy demonstration outside Parliament, he espied a suffragette and shouted, "Drive that woman away!" although he knew very well who she was; she had been his dinner hostess on frequent occasions. But this was a mere ungallantry. Churchill and his colleagues in the governing Liberal Party were so enraged at the suffragettes that they embarked on a vindictive antifeminist campaign. An epic struggle ensued...
...much as eight hours a day. On NBC's Today show last week, Julie Nixon Eisenhower said Nixon has been working on the Watergate chapters of the book in recent weeks, and she declared that "he's going to write a very candid book." Would we, asked Hostess Barbara Walters, learn anything that we hadn't known before? Said Julie: "I'm sure you will...
...first attempt at decorating since she married Nelson Rockefeller twelve years ago, Happy Rockefeller has given the house a soothing cast of whites and beiges, enlivened with comfortable furnishings in warm earth tones. Among the buffet guests invited to ogle the digs were Movie Idol Cary Grant, TV Hostess Barbara Walters, Astronaut Alan Shepard and Publisher William Randolph Hearst. Happy Rockefeller will not be standing on ceremony with any of them. "I just want everyone to feel they can have a good time," she says, "and put their feet up and relax." She does contemplate one further addition: a swing...
Born in 1862 to a prominent New York family, Edith grew up in a world of high, narrow town houses and high, narrow minds. As a woman, she was supposed to know enough to be a good hostess and no more; to be educated was tantamount to being pushy, a sin just below adultery in the eyes of old New York. Judged by those almost Oriental rules, Edith Jones was a misfit, and she was more at home in the library than in the drawing room...