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...Gloria Vanderbilt...
...certain amount of the Baldrige Vanderbilt is so obvious that it amounts to instructing people when to come in out of the rain. A section on going to the beach, for example, solemnly counsels the reader to take along food and drinks, "sun protection devices" and towels. When swimming one should never wave at someone on the shore "because the lifeguards may think you are calling for help and spring into action." Baldrige laughingly admits that much of this advice is elementary, but, "of course, it is possible that people might come to the ocean from Nebraska [Baldrige's home...
...Baldrige Vanderbilt makes a handsome flipping book, although it cannot rival in sheer opulence of detail and gesture the original Emily Post (1922), with its tensely fascinating vignettes, involving Mrs. Cravin Praise, Mr. Stocksan Bonds, Mrs. Climber, Mrs. Oldworld, Mrs. Wellborn, the Upstarts and the Richan Vulgars (see box). Tish is always straightforward, forbearing and rather elegant in her directness. She enjoys making sense...
Although she has revised Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette, nothing of the sedate Vere de Vere clings to Baldrige. She has been charging full blast most of her life. She approaches manners from the perspective of a working woman who did not marry until she was 35, a mother of two, an executive feminist who wears black dresses and pearls, and head of her own Manhattan public relations firm, Letitia Baldrige Enterprises, Inc. At 51 she serves on the board of directors of three companies (the New York Bank for Savings, Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., and Outlet...
...specimens he collected, two may be seen in the American Museum of Natural History. Burden's exploits inspired a friend, Film Director Merian Cooper, to make King Kong. Interested in filming undersea life, Burden in 1938 joined with Ilia Tolstoy, grandson of the Russian writer, and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to open Marineland, a studio aquarium near St. Augustine...