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Died. Perle Mesta, 85, capital society's "hostess with the mostes' "; of an apparent heart attack; in Oklahoma City. Famed as "Two-Party Perle" for her bipartisan hospitality, Mesta assembled Senators and Congressmen, celebrities, showpeople and occasionally Presidents for elaborately calibrated soirees over three decades. Perle's gaiety, feigned naughtiness and passion for scandalous secrets charmed a generation of guests. Heiress to fortunes from her father and her husband, a Pittsburgh steel magnate, she mastered machine-tool manufacturing, invested in cattle ranching, campaigned for an equal-rights amendment for women in the 1930s, and buttonholed Southwestern...
Officials for the Sheraton-Park defended the Vice President's rent discount as routine 1br national celebrities whose residence at the hotel would enhance its reputation and attract more business. (Others who got similar discounts, according to the hotel, included Hostess Perle Mesta, television's Lawrence Spivak, former Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien, former Treasury Secretary John Connally and former Chief Justice Earl Warren.) Rash said his gifts were "strictly on a personal, family, nonpolitical basis." Neither Dundore nor Jones would comment. Agnew's press secretary, J. Marsh Thomson, said he would not comment...
Nowadays Reynolds spends much of his spare time in Florida on the 160-acre ranch that his father, newly reconciled, runs for him. "I feel like the Marlboro man there," he says. But increasingly the Marlboro man is being lured back to Hollywood to woo the Perle Mesta of the Bel Air set, Dinah Shore. It all began when Dinah, 19 years his senior, had Burt on her show last summer. Oscar Levant once said he couldn't watch Dinah because he had diabetes. But, as Dinah tells it, the show she did with Burt would have been...
...years past, stars like Shirley MacLaine and Mario Thomas would have been coveted decorations at a Mesta-style reception. This year Delegate MacLaine was enmeshed in party reform, and Mario Thomas, Patty Duke and other celebrities worked the long nights at the convention hall. Two McGovern workers, Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, stayed mostly out of sight at McGovern headquarters. The big-party syndrome seemed gone for the most part, a vestige of another kind of politics. Noted Eleanor McGovern's press secretary, Mary Hoyt: "I looked for invitations and you know, there weren't any. If there were, what...
...invitation to Ethel Kennedy's Hickory Hill is still almost as coveted as it used to be. Perle Mesta, eightyish, the hostess who is a household word, is back on Washington's social barricades again after an eclipse during the Kennedy years brought on by her support of Nixon in 1960. Also back is Mrs. Mesta's onetime social rival, Gwen Cafritz. Atop the whole pecking order, as she has been for so many decades, is Alice Roosevelt Longworth?daughter of President Teddy, widow of a noted Speaker of the House.* She rules the roost with her crisp...