Grandmother Frank Staite Entertained at His House
Celebrity gossip notes Frank Sinatra hosting a Palm Springs Christmas gathering with friends, chefs, and a lineup of notable guests across multiple themed houses. The event features a grand hall, Discomatic records, Yul Brynner room, and twin Sicilian donkey pets named Cosa and Nostra amid holiday bustle.
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Frank Sinatra
Palm Springs
Sinatra
Slong
Elsie
Queen Salote
Tonga
Sonny
Frank
Loel Guinnesses
Palm Beach
Leland Meynards
New York
Cosa
Nostra
Stein's Art Collection Gift To Museum Of Modern Art
Five new owners of Gertrude Stein's famed collection plan to donate part to the Museum of Modern Art. The gift comes from David Rockefeller John Hay Whitney William Paley and Andrew Meyer. The Stein holdings include 38 works by Pablo Picasso and nine by Juan Gris. Details on quantities and timing were not set.
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Gertrude Stein
Museum New York
Gertrude. Stein
Museum of Modern Art
David Rockfeller
Chase Manhattan Bank
John Hay Whitney
William 8. Paley
Columbia Broadcasting System
New York
Andrew Meyer
Miss
Judy Richardson and Leslie Becker wed in Greenville
Judy Richardson and Leslie C. Becker announced their secret marriage. The couple tied the knot December 30 in Greenville, South Carolina, with Justice Ralph W. Drake officiating. Attendants were Mr and Mrs. Art Reynolds of Hiawatha. The bride is UNI graduate and former Springville teacher now teaching at Oelwein Junior High. the groom serves in the navy in Memphis Tennessee.
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LAMUN
OO Richardsons
Judy
Leslie C. Becker
Clifford Hecker
Center Point Road
Cedar Rapids
Ralph W. Drake
Greenville
S.C
Art Reynolds
Hiawatha
University of Northern Iowa
Springville
Oelwein
Navy
Memphis
Tenn
Hangartner 25th Wedding Anniversary Open House
Mr and Mrs Robert Hangartner observe their 25th wedding anniversary with an open house at their Postville home on Sunday from 2 to 4. Neighbors friends and relatives invited to celebrate this milestone with the couple.
Women in Pants To Be Admitted To Inaugural Ball
New York AP report notes that women at the Nixon inaugural ball will wear pant suits while men may wear black tie, white tie preferred. Co chairmen Mark Evans and Mrs Leslie Arends say white tie optional, guests in $1,000 boxes receive red white blue scarves and inaugural theme gifts. men get cuff links and women bracelets with the seal.
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New York
Nixon
Mark Evans
Pierre Hotel
Nison
Evans
Leslie €. Arends
Ilinois
Arends
Rebekah Lodges Install Officers in Two Lodges This Week
Officers were installed for Star of Maine 221 and Cedar Lodge 494. Read lists include noble grand, vice grand, recording and financial secretaries, treasurers, chaplains, wardens, conductors, RSNG LSNG guardians, musicians, Bible escorts, and soloists.
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Otto Eckley
Home Lodge
Star of Maine
Charles Bonham
Noble Grand
Leonard Hill
George Sheets
Cliff Shannon
Leo Mellick
Esther Jaycox
Sydney Rattin
William Bradle
Wilford Ward
Fred Phillips
Ray Harmilton
Guardians
Ethel Height
RSNG
Scott Trammond
LSNG
Doyle Crow
RSVG
George Swan
KP. Shimerda
John Avis
June Anderly
Sam Allen
John McGowan
Ward
Cedar Lodge
Andrew Schamberger
Roberta Sheneberger
Frances Sheneberger
Emmett Sheneberger
Hassel Akers
Ormal Williams
Francis Lodestein
Kay Scheneberger
Ralph Anderson
Lester’ ‘Scott
Clara Dougherty
Harold Griswold
West Union Couple Mark 40th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs John Duracher will be honored at an open house Sunday from 2 to 4 at Bethel United Presbyterian church parlors. The event celebrates their 40 years of marriage after a Jan 15 1929 wedding. They have nine grandchildren.
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West Union
John Duracher
Bethel United ‘Presbyterian Church
Ariel Durant Legally Named Ariel Durant After Long Use
Ariel Durant, long known as Ariel since she was 15, won a court order granting her legal first name Ariel. The 70 year old widow of Will Durant said her real name is Ida and the change follows fifty years of using Ariel in contracts and daily life.
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Los Angeles
UPD
Ariel Durant
Will Durant
New York
Ariel
Ida
Superior Court
Hyman O.danoff
Durant
Nixon Nominates Patricia Hitt To HEW Subcabinet Post
Washington AP reports Patricia Reilly Hitt, long ally of Nixon, nominated to be assistant secretary of health education and welfare. She would head the Office of Consumer Services and Center for Community Planning, as the first woman in a subcabinet post.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Patricia Reilly Hitt
California
Nixon-Agnew
HEW
Office of Consumer Services
Center For Community Planning
Pat Hitt
Robert H. Finch
Hitt
Robert J. Hitt
Los Angeles
Jem
Patricks
Duplicate Bridge West Side Club Winners at Welty Way
In Durham North Carolina AP reports Mrs J R Merrick longtime unpaid editor and publisher of The Braille Magazine may fold the 18 year old publication due to funds. The weekly magazine serves blind readers in Europe Africa and India with excerpts from national magazines and Merricks column on trends and news.
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West Side Club
Howell
Welty Way
Daniel Hodges
Clyde Nowlin
L. W. Busby
Durham
N.C
J. R. Merrick
Merrick
Cath Ionger
Europe
Africa
India
North Carolina Federation of Negro Women's Clubs
Marrick
Kentucky
Federation
Merritts
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Society For Women
Olad Nixon
Randmother
Frank Staite
By Suzy Knickerbocker
Truman Capote
Bulldog Charlie
Charlie
Trulove
Mrs
Winston Frederick Churchill Guest
Long Island
Conent
Cerf Cottage
Bennett Cerfs
Armand Deutsches
Beverly Hills
Sears, Roebuck Fortune
Freddie Brisson
Rosalind Russell
Christmas Tree House
William Goetz
Czar
Czarina
Beverly Hills Society
Joseph Mattkiewicz
Michael Romanoff
Claudette Colbert
Chanel
Hayward House
Hornblow
Arthur Hornblow
Garson Kanit
Hag
Judy Richardson
Leslie Becker
Rebekah
FOX & Hounds
Pol
Ene
SM Store
Shim
Wood Rd
Sprite
Poncorny
Patsy
Holland Orchard
Fam
Te & Pan
Buster Brown
All Hanas
All Hanes
Patricia Hitt
Patricia Hutt
Killian
Charmer
Debby Miss
Dacton
Lindale Plaza
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