Word: doormen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Private Matter. When royalty goes nightclubbing, the word occasionally leaks out through a complex underground of waiters, doormen and band members. But any photographer who is sent to the scene is met at the door of the nightclub and turned away by a royal detective. Once a news photographer got a picture of six-year-old Prince Charles on his way to a cousin's birthday party. But when the photographer's editor called the palace to get some caption material, he was brusquely informed that the color of the coat was a "private matter...
...Says Keith: "This isn't going to be about two people in aprons over an egg beater in the kitchen. It's still about Mr. Peepers, and he's still a science teacher, and he'll still have all the same troubles with students and doormen and whatever. He's just got married, that's all. Lots of men do that...
Anna Maria Caglio is an aristocrat, the kind of girl whom Via Véneto doormen automatically salute. Daughter of a well-to-do Milan attorney, she was educated in prim Swiss schools, went to Rome when she was 20, hoping to break into the theater or the movies. She had little success, but she became a part of the highest-living, fastest-traveling Roman set. The most dashing of them all was the Marchese Ugo Montagna. Soon Anna Maria was his acknowledged mistress, accepting an $800-a-month allowance and living with him openly. But last summer Ugo threw...
...society anymore." Nevertheless. Evie has adjusted herself to the new social bureaucracy, nowadays frequently prints items about such relative newcomers as Hostesses Perle Mesta and Gwen Cafritz. While Evie Gordon travels among the elite, the bulk of her public-and some of her best sources-are such people as doormen and automobile callers at Washington receptions. One denizen of the social world once said to her: "Oh Evie, somebody told me you had a piece about me today. We don't take the News, but my servants do. Would you send the column to me?" Evie takes such jibes...
Winners ranged from filling station attendants to doormen, from airplane riveters to landladies. Most of the "Lucky Buckaroos" came in happily to have their pictures taken, bills streaming from their ears or swirling around their heads. Mirror Publisher Charles McCabe was just as happy; July circulation was above normal...