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...question is how a guest in evening dress should handle barbecued chicken. Though contemporary society neither needs nor would accept such an absolute authority as Emily Post, it does welcome some guidelines, and since Mrs. Post died two years ago, the unquestioned chief guider has been Amy Vanderbilt, 54, an energetic latter-day member of the genuine Vanderbilt clan...
Great-Great-Grandfather Oliver Vanderbilt helped found the mighty Bank of Manhattan; Grandfather Joseph joined Abner Doubleday in introducing baseball; and Cousin Cornelius manipulated his vast holdings in stocks and railroads to become one of America's richest early millionaires. But Amy's favorite forebear is Great-Great-Grandmother Vreedenburg, who staved off bands of Tory marauders singlehanded during the Revolutionary War, having plunged the vast sums of gold she had into her copious bosom...
...manners are not what they once were and still should be; complaints about today's young people-who adamantly stick to their seats on buses and trains while sick old ladies lurch about on their feet-make up a good part of almost any dinner conversation. To Amy Vanderbilt, there is no fighting the inevitable and growing relaxation, nor should there be. Manners, says Amy, are largely a matter of custom: "In generations past, a small coterie of so-called society people set our manners. Most of today's fashion-setting is observation of sociological change...
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...
Seminaries also compete-fiercely-for "name" theologians; Austin's President David Stitt complains that "it's worse than the used-car business." Perhaps the most ambitious talent-raiding these days is done by Chicago, which recently has signed up Paul Tillich from Harvard. Langdon Gilkey from Vanderbilt. Charles Stinnette from Union, and Joseph Haroutunian from nearby McCormick Theological Seminary (although it lost Lutheran Church Historian Jaroslav Pelikan to Yale...