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...fascinated by your story "America's New Manners" and Social Arbiter Letitia Baldrige [Nov. 27]. After all, when all's said and done, it's really quite simple. Good manners are best defined by the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto...
...also about bedwetting, inverted nipples and nose jobs. Charlotte Ford, Henry II's daughter, has a "book of modern manners" due out in the spring. Probably the best guide to manners in 1978 is The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, a Guide to Contemporary Living, Revised & Expanded by Letitia Baldrige (Doubleday, 879 pages, plain $10.95; thumb-indexed $11.95). The late Amy Vanderbilt, a distant cousin of the Commodore and a sensibly moderate arbiter of etiquette who eschewed the surpassing hoity-toity of Emily Post for a comfortably "modern" point of view, originally published her manners book in 1952, later...
...always remembered," Letitia Baldrige says, "if you are tall...
...been charging full blast most of her life. She approaches manners from the perspective of a working woman who did not marry until she was 35, a mother of two, an executive feminist who wears black dresses and pearls, and head of her own Manhattan public relations firm, Letitia Baldrige Enterprises, Inc. At 51 she serves on the board of directors of three companies (the New York Bank for Savings, Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., and Outlet Co. of Providence) and writes a weekly column, "Contemporary Living," which is syndicated in some 40 newspapers by the Los Angeles Times...
...Tish decided to go back into business for herself with Letitia Baldrige Enterprises, Inc. Her company, with a staff of nine, is small but energetic. She has just started a new subsidiary called Business Receptions, which organizes and runs parties and other functions for companies...