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...NONA M. AGUILAR Los Angeles
Candidates for RGA officers for next year are: President, Catherine B. Fitch '65 and Lois Reiser '64; Vice-President, Stephanie L. Krebs '65; Secretary, Lynn Sargent '64 and Nona N. Walker '66; Treasurer, Maxine S. Paisner '66; NSA delegate, Marian C. Bennett '66 and Lois R. Goodman '66; nominating committee chairman, Emily L. Delmax, '65 and Beverly Winikoff...
Doctrine & Syllabus. Pio Nona's liberalism did not last long. In 1848, Roman civic leaders, furious that he would not consider war with Austria, assassinated his Prime Minister and set up a "people's republic." Pius fled to exile in Gaeta, near Naples. There he denned, on his own authority, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. When French troops restored him to his dominions in 1850, Pius IX was a cautious political conservative. Much of his suspicion of modern ideas is summed up in the notorious Syllabus of Errors of 1864-a belligerent denunciation of such...
Good Sport. To suit them, Nona and Sophie still go to Paris twice a year. On their last trip a few weeks ago, they bought "a little of each," says Sophie. "Some customers adore Lanvin. Others like Nina Ricci and Cardin, Givenchy and Balenciaga." After ordering the originals, the ladies buy fabrics, buttons and other necessary materials. Back at the workshop, their custom seamstresses make up duplicates, and Chez Ninon announces a showing. A private one is held for important customers, such as Jackie and Mrs. Dillon; Jackie herself gets the first look at new clothes, if she requests...
Suits start at $850 and go up; gowns can run into the thousands. If a customer orders a dress or a suit that has already been bought by another, Nona and Sophie mention the fact. If the customer still wants it (and if the earlier buyer is Jackie, she nearly always does), she can have it. Nona and Sophie still cluck with dismay about the time last fall when Mrs. Paley, a woman who should know better, swept into the White House dressed in a Chez Ninon special, and then suffered the supreme embarrassment: there was Jackie in the identical...