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...been especially so in the past two decades, as this week's cover story on new American manners points out. One popular up-to-date guidebook to shifts in manners since World War II, and particularly since the sexual revolution of the '60s, is The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, which has just been revised by former White House Social Secretary Letitia Baldrige. To prepare the cover story, Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison interviewed Baldrige and found her "warm, graceful and witty, with manners so good you don't notice them." The cover assignment, however, made Harbison...
...about social rituals ("Prince Philip, may I present my laundress Ruth Smith") but also about bedwetting, inverted nipples and nose jobs. Charlotte Ford, Henry II's daughter, has a "book of modern manners" due out in the spring. Probably the best guide to manners in 1978 is The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, a Guide to Contemporary Living, Revised & Expanded by Letitia Baldrige (Doubleday, 879 pages, plain $10.95; thumb-indexed $11.95). The late Amy Vanderbilt, a distant cousin of the Commodore and a sensibly moderate arbiter of etiquette who eschewed the surpassing hoity-toity of Emily Post...
...formal wedding, heraldic devices, parliamentary procedure, how to visit a naval vessel and how to go fox hunting. (Do not show up in black derby with a pink coat. Never done!) But the farther Baldrige explored in the territory of manners, the more she revised and enlarged the Vanderbilt canon. She kicked the stuffiness out of it and inserted a clear-eyed, considerate feminism...
...Manhattan's silk stocking district, William Green, an heir to the Grand Union supermarket chain, retained his seat in Congress by defeating Democrat Carter Burden, a scion of the Vanderbilt family. The pair spent $850,000 on the race, about half from their own fortunes, seeking a job that pays $57,500 a year...
...Vanderbilt said he assumes the show will open in February...