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...They all should have congratulated one another on their good taste and the fact that they could afford the dress." LETITIA BALDRIGE, etiquette expert and Kennedy-era White House social secretary, after Laura Bush and three other women wore identical $8,500 red Oscar de la Renta gowns to a White House reception...
...work on Court Square Press Courtyard, a garden for residents of a South Boston condominium. The design of the garden combines disjointed pathways with lighted benches and three layers of bamboo and fern to create a “collection of fragmented views,” said project designer Letitia Tormay. The view of the garden is entirely different from any window in the six stories of condominiums surrounding the garden. Tormay said the project was particularly challenging both because of the unusual dimensions with which she had to work and the necessity of including emergency escape routes and building...
...Washington Home, a last stopping place for the sick and the elderly, Diana stopped to chat with about 40 of the wheelchair-bound residents. She patted spotted hands and spoke directly into hard-of-hearing ears. It was old hat to 95-year-old British-born Letitia Whitty: "When I was 6 1/2, my father took me to the streets to see Queen Victoria passing by. I wouldn't wave at that ugly old woman." She did, however, talk animatedly with a pretty young one about English gardens. For nearly an hour, these faltering men and women in the shadow...
...friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days," wrote ancient Rome's great playwright. With the holiday-travel season upon us, there are ample opportunities to annoy friends and family with burdensome visits. For that reason, TIME checked in with two experts, Letitia Baldrige and Peter Post--both out with new etiquette books--for advice on how to be a well-mannered houseguest...