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...Mesta. Ethel Scull, a sort of pop Perle Mesta in New York circles, last week threw a fund-raising Women's Lib party at her East Hampton estate. Half of the guests were reporters or photographers. Representative Patsy Mink, a heroine of the movement since she took on one doctor's argument that women are too hormonally unstable for positions of power, was scheduled to speak, but fled without a word. One braless and strapping writer for the Village Voice interrupted serious oratory by abruptly stripping to her panties and plunging into the swimming pool. Writer Gloria Steinem...
...Mesta. Socially, Nixon's Washington still has only slightly more panache than a San Clemente Chamber of Commerce meeting. But even on that front, a certain style is developing. Pat Nixon, who once had the catty Women's Wear Daily sniping because she refused to be a clotheshorse, has now had to protest that she did not, in fact, sink $19,000 into couture last year. Actually, says Pat, she came to Washington with some clothes "left over from before that people hadn't seen because we didn't live here...
Emerging as the mod Mesta of Nixon's Washington is Barbara Howar, a 35 year-old divorcee who played the same game in the Johnson years. Lady Bird cashiered her after Barbara gave one interview too many about the Johnsons. Now Barbara appears all over Washington, often on the arm of White House Foreign Affairs Adviser Henry Kissinger, who rather improbably has become one of the liveliest figures of the new Washington society...
...that ruled out fatty foods and liquor if the customer was overweight. Fees at Maine Chance have always been high (currently, $750 to $800 a week), and the clientele has included Mrs. Clark Gable, Mrs. John Foster Dulles, Ava Gardner, Edna Ferber, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Gwen Cafritz, Perle Mesta, Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, and Bea Lillie (who came not to reduce, but to put on weight...
Ambassador Talat AI-Ghoussein of Kuwait looked bewildered as he stared at the three-tiered wedding cake in the party-packed penthouse of Washington Hostess Perle Mesta, 84. "I don't know why I'm here," admitted the ambassador. A lot of the other capital society types were wondering too. Then Perle led them over to meet Television Actress Inger Stevens and explained that the "wedding reception" was cooked up to "celebrate" Inger's "marriage" to a "Congressman," played by William Windom on The Farmer's Daughter. The show's producers had promised the sponsors...