Word: hostessing
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...tycoon has sold one of his two yachts. A socially prominent Manhattan couple has switched from vintage to nonvintage champagne, while some of their affluent friends provide only California jug wine-in Waterford decanters. A Los Angeles millionairess, Elsie Pollack, now features chili at her dinner parties; another wealthy hostess has replaced cut flowers with synthetic centerpieces. A Chicago industrialist has turned in his Cadillac for a relatively miserly Mercedes 220 with a diesel engine that gets up to 32 m.p.g...
...worries about her father's health (see THE NATION), Julie Nixon Eisenhower managed to turn in a cool, poised performance as a TV hostess last week. Filling in for Barbara Walters on Not for Women Only, a daytime talk show, Julie taped five programs back to back, remaining mostly unflappable through five clothing changes and 4% hours under hot lights. But then she had plenty of support. The nine guests she interviewed on the subject of "Public People, Private Lives" included such old friends as Mrs. Norman Vincent Peale, Dollie Cole and California Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. The audience...
...hostess (not "maitre d'"), one of two ladies with years of experience, manages the Dining Room where the service is never slow but unhurried to allow maximum dining enjoyment...
Ruth rapidly became not only the Sultan of Swat but an aspiring social lion awkwardly eager to say the right thing. The rude, uneducated kid from Baltimore's waterfront once convulsed guests at a formal dinner party by spurning a plate of asparagus. "Asparagus," he explained to his hostess in his politest tones, "makes my urine smell." Asparagus, though, was about the only thing that Ruth would not eat. He used to munch hot dogs during practice sessions with the Yankees, once put away an omelet made of 18 eggs and three big slices of ham. He was equally...
...cleanliness." As an adult he was variously described as a "mean, whitey-looking man" and "an ugly, cross-made, splayfooted, shapeless little dumpling of a fellow." He had two qualities that make a human being a menace at any party-a phenomenal memory and inexhaustible energy. An exasperated hostess once grew so desperate that she switched the conversation to dolls, hoping to shut him up. Alas, Macaulay turned out to be an authority on them...