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During the presentation, Ten Brook read from a scroll, "The Hasty Pudding has always held womanhood and acting ability in high esteem..." Miss Fonda giggled
That evening came a moment for which all Washington womanhood had been waiting: Jacqueline Kennedy, stunning in a white gown of silk ottoman, emerged coatless from the house with her husband, lifted her skirt daintily above the snow and headed off for the festivities of inauguration eve. The first big event was the inaugural concert, held in Constitution Hall, unmarred for the Kennedys even by the fact that 60 out of 100 musicians, including Soloist Mischa Elman, had failed to make it through the snowstorm for the occasion...
From birth to young womanhood, Jackie and her younger sister Lee (now married to her second husband, Prince Stanislas Radziwill, a Polish nobleman turned London businessman) lived according to a social pattern as undeviating as a cotillion. Winters were spent in a Park Avenue apartment (where Black Jack indulgently permitted Jackie to keep a pet rabbit in the bathtub) while Jackie attended fashionable Chapin School. At six, Jackie had her own pony, by twelve she was riding in horse shows, and her love of horses is abiding. As Jackie and Lee grew older, they met their beaux under the Biltmore...
...shudder for my sex after reading your article on the battle of New Orleans. Is this the Southern womanhood that Southern manhood has sworn for generations to protect? Next logical question: "Would I want my son to marry one?" No, thank...
Your description (Dec. 5) of the Wiesbaden area is one-sidedly accurate. The other side is bigger and longer. Sure, there's an active social life. We must keep busy. Do you prefer that we exploit the reputation of American womanhood by engaging in quiet prostitution and Gasthaus lounging, or should we keep active in scouting, P.T.A., women's clubs and civic activities? The women's club I belonged to adopted a German orphanage; we delivered food to German refugees living in the basement of bombed-out buildings-so dirty that the average American woman would have...