Word: lanahan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years before he died in 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his only child: "In your career as a wild society girl, vintage 1925, I am not interested." Well, she never really was a wild society girl, and certainly not of that vintage, but now Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan, 44, has taken up a career that might fascinate her father. Scottie is writing about Washington society types, vintage 1965, for the New York Times. The trouble is that while Fitzgerald could sit down and wonderfully invent his parties in fiction, his daughter now has to track down all the gossip...
...France's Ambassador Herve Alphand, for example, "used to be a very reasonable man," says a fellow countryman, "but since De Gaulle . . ." It has been said that if Alphand feels slighted at a dinner, he grabs his chapeau and leaves. Once, at a dinner party given by "Scottie" Lanahan (daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald), Alphand discovered that Adlai Stevenson was scheduled to sit at the hostess' right. Alphand thought he ought to have that place of honor. After all, the French Ambassador outranks the U.S. Ambassador...
...Lanahan hastily juggled the place cards, and voila, poor Adlai finished second again...
...Inauguration night, 1957, and throughout Washington jubilant Republicans celebrated the second term of Dwight D. Eisenhower. But perhaps the gayest party of all was held by a group of Democrats. Deciding that the opposition should not be allowed to have all the fun, Mrs. Frances Lanahan, daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald, was hostess at an "Anti-Inaugural Ball" in her Georgetown home. Of those present, none seemed to be having a better time than the radiant young wife of the junior Senator from Massachusetts. Dressed in a simple, Empire-waisted white satin gown, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy laughed and danced into...