Debutante Parties Fade as Society Bands See Shifting Taste
New York AP report notes fall in debutante parties with top bands like Lester Lanin and Meyer Davis seeing bookings shrink up to 50 percent. Lanin cites modern girls' attitudes. Davis pivots to conventions and rock while stressing ongoing work and aging gracefully. Duchin rises as alternative, saying debutante demand remains only a fraction of his business.
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Lanin
Meyer Davis
Astors
Firestones
Rockefellers
Davis
Jacqueline Bouvier
Ken
Nedy
Warren Har
Forj
Anne
Charlotte Ford
May Mellons
Morgans
Henry
Vanderbilts
Playboy Club
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Roseland
U.S. Pavel Steamship Lines
Meyer Davis Productions
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Social Register
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National Association of Purchasing Agents
Wamsutta Mills
Philadelphia
Chicago
The
Grateful Dead
Chuck Berry
Elton John
Emergy
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Emery
Perle Mesta
Ethel Merman
Duchin
Kennedy Center
el Morocco
America
Oh Les
Peter Duchin
Emory
the Davises
Lobbyist Dita Beard Checks Out for TV Interview
Dita Beard, ill with a heart ailment, checked out of a Denver hospital to tape a TV interview with Mike Wallace for 60 Minutes. She claimed Sen. Hartke viewed ITT as a personal taxi service and acknowledged that lawmakers used ITT planes. Beard returned to the hospital after the interview.
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New York
Dita Beard
Senate
Denver
Vance Hartke
D Ind
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Beard
Mike Wallace
CBS
Wallace
ITT
Su‘dan Lichtman
Theompany
Ethnic Voters Mobilize for 1972 Presidential Battle
Ethnic groups including Poles Italians Greeks and Slavs in 58 cities organize political action to influence the 1972 race. Leaders urge candidates to address taxes services and fairness while parties mobilize ethnic outreach and registration drives.
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Stanley N. Wellborn
Congressional Quarterly
Washington
America
Barbara Mikulski
Nations
Geno C. Baroni
Center For
Richard Scammon
Chlorine leak prompts 4000 evacuated along Louisville riverfront
About 4000 residents in Louisville's northwest sector fled Saturday to avoid a chlorine gas spill from a sunken barge near McAlpine Dam. Guards patrolled the area as workers secured the vessel and prepared to transfer the chlorine to another barge.
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Louisville
Ohio
McAlpine Dam
Sville
U.S. Army
Connally defends 1969 groceries sales tax vote strategy
Senator Wayne Connally says he supported a 1969 groceries sales tax as part of a tactic to push a beer tax through the House. He admits mixed support among allies and says he would have opposed final passage, noting the House would not accept the food tax.
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Austin
Wayne Connally
Senate
House
Connally
Ben Barnes
Connady
Baylor Freshmen Stay Loyal To School
A national survey by the American Council on Education shows Baylor University freshmen retention at 85 percent for the second year, above the 78 percent national average. Baylor graduates 56.8 percent with bachelor degrees versus 46.7 percent nationally.
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American Council Enducation
Baylor
The
Baptist University
Avrage University
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