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...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...
...before graduating), his family did not quite know what to do with all his manuscripts and papers. Eventually, the family decided to send them to the Princeton Library, where they could be safely stored. Last week, going a step further, his daughter Frances Scott (now Mrs. Samuel J. Lanahan) announced that she had turned the papers over for keeps. With that gift, every major piece of Fitzgeraldiana from Paradise to The Last Tycoon will become permanently available to the students and admirers of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Princeton...
Overtime. In South Fallsburg, N.Y., Oilman John Lanahan, working overtime, found he was short of pipe fittings, went to the plumber's to get some, heard the plumber had gone to the movies, followed him there. He arrived in time to hear his own name called for the $200 bank-night prize, quickly claimed the cash for which he had registered the last time he went to the movies, four years...