Word: laninized
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...daughter Susan in Cooperstown, N.Y.; this week Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill, daughter of Philadelphia's Francis Bring Wetherill and Mrs. Donald Stewart Leas Jr., will have a huge party in Southampton; Cynthia Phipps, daughter of horsy Investment Banker Ogden Phipps, will entertain 1,000 guests with Lester Lanin's music on Long Island Sept. 9; and two days before that, Mr. and Mrs. Irénée Du Pont Jr. will throw one of the season's biggest balls at their Wilmington, Del., estate for their debutante daughter Irene...
Through it all, the orchestra of Howard Lanin* played on, many of the spinsters missing the commotion-even when Zantzinger turned on his 125-lb. wife, who fell to the floor. More blows flew as two men struggled to calm Zantzinger. A physician felt Mrs. Zantzinger's pulse, decided she would be all right...
...Brother of Lester Lanin. whose orchestra sometimes entertains at the White House...
Jackie made the most of Lester Lanin's music. To the tune of Never on Sunday, she tripped a nimble fox trot with the Colombian ambassador; while she was dancing with France's Ambassador Alphand, Millionaire Charles Wrightsman, a Palm Beach neighbor, cut in. President Kennedy proved more of a wanderer than a dancer; he frequently left the presidential table to greet and joke with guests. Totally relaxed, he seemed solemn only once, during a ten-minute chat with Brother Bobby, presumably about the crisis in Mississippi. He was coaxed onto the floor twice, dancing with his sister...
...Lanin played no twists, but Mrs. Jacob Javits, wife of New York's Republican Senator, nevertheless twisted to a fast fox trot with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Herbert Klotz. Lyndon Johnson danced with Jackie's mother, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss. Senators Hubert Humphrey and John McClellan, better known for their oratory than for their ballroom skills, jostled about. Equally at ease were such non-Washington types as the Alfred G. Vanderbilts, the Henry Ford IIs, the William Paleys. and Mrs. Gary Cooper...