Word: maxwellian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crushes & Feuds. Back in the U.S. during the Depression, Elsa tried her hand at some unsuccessful movie shorts in Hollywood and was in danger of sinking into an un-Maxwellian obscurity, when the postwar wave of international prosperity brought her back with a new cast of characters. Now she was a newspaper columnist, playing for an audience of millions her roles of social arbiter, super name-dropper, gossip and buffoon...
...caviar. For the traditional Fourth of July celebration, able U.S. Ambassador Walter C. Dowling, a careerman, could afford only $287-enough to give 360 visitors a pass at trays of simple canapes and a sip of cheap German sparkling wine. In Leopoldville, where the Belgians established an Elsa Maxwellian standard of party-giving that the Congolese now regard as the norm for diplomatic life, U.S. Ambassador Clare Timberlake must keep up with the Joneses on a budget of $2,000. "I haven't asked for an increase and don't intend to," he says...