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...guest list read like an East Coast Republicans' Who's Who. Among those attending: former U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, political strategist for Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower; CBS Board Chairman William Paley; Du Font's Pierre S. du Pont III; General Electric's Ralph Cordiner; former Defense Secretary Tom Gates, an Ike intimate; New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer; Philadelphia Inquirer Publisher Walter Annenberg, and party officials from Delaware and New Jersey. Invited but sending regrets were George M. Humphrey, Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary, and former G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn...
...most glamorous properties on Broadway, as well as some of the most sedulously anonymous rich. His skill with color, plain lines and expert engineering takes especially kindly to the middle-aged figure. Many women who wear his clothes as never see him, but such favored clients as "Babs" Paley and "Ceezee" Guest can sometimes prevail on him to discuss their wardrobes over lunch at Le Pavillion or the Colony. "I think I've been a reassuring influence in fashion," he says. "I don't want my clothes to make a woman look desperate for attention; I do want...
FRANK PACE WILLIAM PALEY ALICIA PATTERSON FERDINAND PECORA CLAUDE PEPPER FRANCES PERKINS JAMES C. PETRILLO SYLVIA PORTER ROBERT PRESTON GWILYM A. PRICE LEONTYNE PRICE NATHAN PUSEY
...most of her dresses made ("I am NOT a shopper"). "Some little woman runs them up for her," says the very chic Mrs. William Paley, "and of course you wouldn't dream of asking her where the material came from." She has worn the same shoes for 30 years (specially designed T-strap sandals with round closed toes and square low heels), never wears any more of a hat than a snood. She rouges her ears, has a manicure, pedicure, massage and hairdo daily, drinks Mountain Valley Mineral Water with the gusto of an addict. When she stays...
Elevated since 1959 to fashion's Hall of Fame as a Best-Dressed pacesetter "above annual comparison," Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of the board chairman of Columbia Broadcasting System, lost some of her most dazzling finery when a cat burglar raided the Paley estate in suburban Manhasset, L.I. Included in the swag were a 12-carat emerald and diamond ring valued at $77,000, a $50,000 diamond necklace containing 78 stones, other baubles and bangles, for a total haul of $193,200. "There was," said a CBS spokesman, "other jewelry in the house that he didn...