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...that his wife's social secretary Letitia (Tish) Baldrige will have a proper send-off next week when she leaves her job to become a kind of flack-of-all-trades for Joe Kennedy's Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Tish, who was social secretary to David K.E. Bruce when he was U.S. Ambassador to France, and who worked in the same capacity for Clare Boothe Luce when she was U.S. Ambassador to Italy, was a ball of fire in the White House. But a ball of fire could not very well assume the role of anonymity that Jackie...
...barely recovered from the oblique rebuffs of Jacqueline Kennedy when they were flat-out repudiated by an almost one time First Lady, Elizabeth Stevenson Ives, 64, sister of the U.S.'s U.N. Ambassador. Opting out some 50 years after she first joined the Illinois chapter named for Grandmother Letitia Green Stevenson (wife of U.S. Vice President Adlai Ewing Stevenson and the D.A.R.'s only four-time President-General). "Buffie" Ives charged that "a growing number of the official policies of the organization are wholly out of line with the policies of the U.S. as formulated by both...
...loves French cooking. But the story that the First Lady had been guilty of the unpardonable impropriety of trying to lure him away from the ambassador was as shocking as serving a sweet white wine with pink filet mignon. From London the cables buzzed with a story that Letitia Baldrige, Jackie's social secretary, had telephoned Bui one midnight last week and, in liquid French, offered him a substantial raise in pay to come to Washington and cook for the President. After 24 hours of thinking it over, said Bui, he had declined the offer...
...Jackie's first moves was the appointment of Letitia Baldrige, 33, to be her social secretary. Lively and chic, "Tish" Baldrige knows her way around Washington and a few foreign parts as well. The daughter of a onetime Republican Congressman, Nebraska's Malcolm Baldrige, she went to Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. and to Vassar, served as social secretary to Mrs. David K.E. Bruce (when Bruce was ambassador in Paris) and Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce in Rome (Roman Candle, Tish's memoirs of her days in Italy, was published in 1956). Jackie and Tish...
...vicinity, and where does Danny's tunnel end? Spang in the middle of the lion act. Danny survives the lion's den-only to be consumed with passion for the girl on the flying trapeze (Pier Angeli). But this is madness! He is already engaged to Miss Letitia Fairchild (Patricia Cutts), a powerful young woman who will stand for no nonsense. What can poor Danny...