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Born. To Angler Biddle Duke, 46, impeccable State Department Chief of Protocol, heir to an American Tobacco Co. fortune, who lost his third wife in a plane crash last year, and blonde, bubbly Robin Chandler Duke, 39, onetime boss of Pepsi-Cola's public relations department: a son; in Washington...
Eleanor cared nothing about female fashion or protocol. She could happily journey off to England for a visit with King George and Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother Mary, and the Winston Churchills carrying just one evening dress, two day dresses, one suit and a few blouses. She could delightedly entertain the King and Queen at Hyde Park with a hot dog and mustard picnic-that was real Americanism. She knew she was homely, so she scorned lipstick and powder, always considered comb and hairbrush sufficient...
Whatever its status and whoever the seekers, the kiss as greeting has moved out of the domain of theater and show business circles (where everyone has already kissed everyone else, and only the handshake denotes abiding love), and is fast becoming party protocol across the U.S. Like players in a familiar charade, men and women purse lips and brush cheeks with each other; besides the laying on of cheekbones, the gesture is accompanied by a smacking of mouth...
Also, a matter of protocol: I am a lecturer, not a professor, at Harvard...
...Proper Britons boggled over the fact that Stash is now a British subject, thus could correctly use his title only if he had a special license from the Queen, which might be as hard to get as some annulments. The accepted explanation for the faux pas was that palace protocol officers consciously elevated the Radziwills on that occasion out of deference to President Kennedy...