Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thank you for the compliment [March i], but although my Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette seems to be in most American embassies and consulates and in foreign embassies as well, I cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called an official consultant on etiquette to our State Department. It helps...
...VANDERBILT...
Follow it Amy did, by including a chapter in her book on the servantless household, even though her own staff numbers six-three secretaries, one housekeeper, one maid, and an odd-jobs man. Thrice divorced and the mother of three sons, Amy Vanderbilt lives and writes in her century-old brownstone on Manhattan's East Side, where she does "quite a lot of entertaining and much of my own cooking...
...figures only and for the very young"), women's credit cards (men are urged not to argue when the female reaches for the check at a business lunch), and psychiatric patients ("No one undergoing treatment should be embarrassed to mention the fact"). As for those pesky teenagers, Miss Vanderbilt advises: "Parents are wise to overlook seemingly disrespectful outbursts from time to time . . . The parent must get across the idea that 'I love you always but sometimes I do not love your behavior...
...Teheran, a salesman from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. is hoping to get the signature of the Shah of Iran on a contract to buy a JetStar corporate jetliner. Indonesia's President Sukarno already owns one. So does Millionaire Harold S. Vanderbilt of Palm Beach and New York. But executive jets are running into stiff sales resistance from the very group for which they were intended: corporate executives. The difficulty is not salesmanship (a demonstration ride can be arranged at the drop of a hat) or a lack of a choice. Eleven planemakers, including four in the U.S., have corporate jets...