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...hostess with the mostest in Atlantic City was none other than Perle Mesta, 73, back in style after a Kennedy Administration cold shoulder. Aside from a dinner dance for a scant 700 of "my most intimate friends" at the Claridge Hotel, Perle held nightly buffets in her rented twelve-room villa in nearby Ventnor...
Died. Morris Cafritz, 77, Washington real estate man and builder, known for his 100-acre Parklands housing development and shopping center in southeast D.C., but-best remembered as the rich husband of Gwen Cafritz, who in the '40s and '50s clashed cocktail crystals with Perle Mesta for the scepter of hostess with the mostess until Jackie Kennedy arrived; of a heart attack; in Washington...
Muzak in Every Room. Back in Washington, Lady Bird set up headquarters in The Elms, a Norman mansion in Washington's Spring Valley section (previous owner: Capital Party Giver Perle Mesta). With Daughters Lynda Bird (now 19) and Lucy Baines (16) growing up, the Johnsons provided all comforts. Lady Bird piped Muzak into every room, built a heated $15,000 swimming pool in the backyard, stocked two freezers with enough prime Texas steaks for a regiment. Johnson traveled more than any other Vice President-to Asia, Scandinavia, the Benelux countries, around the world-and Lady Bird always went along...
...Sunny Cafritz, Hungarian-born wife of a wealthy Washington builder, once said, "and I worked my way up to the Supreme Court." But while Gwen could once corral several Supreme Court justices for her annual October cocktail party lately she has been getting none. Her chief rival, Perle Mesta, used to make up guest lists "like Noah, who invited something of everything into his ark " But Perle has sold her ark, a mansion called Les Ormes, to the Lyndon Johnsons, now lives in an apartment less suited to serving regiments...
JOHN JAY McCLOY NEIL HOSLER McCLOY ANDREW G. McNAUGHTON HAROLD MEDINA RICHARD K. MELLON PIERRE MENDES-FRANCE GIAN CARLO MENOTTI ETHEL MERMAN PERLE MESTA ROBERT B. MEYNER JOSÉ MIRÓ CARDONA RAYMOND MOLEY JEAN MONNET JAMES MORAN DELESSEPS S. MORRISON CHARLES G. MORTIMER LUIS MUNOZ MAŔIN PATRICE MUNSEL CLINTON MURCHISON JR. JOHN MURCHISON ROBERT D. MURPHY JOHN COURTNEY MURRAY...