Word: hobnobbing
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City Lights (United Artists). It is almost a law in publicity-loving Southern California that the two greatest personalities there present shall hobnob while the press & public loudly cheer or jeer. Usually this means William Randolph Hearst and whatever foreign personage happens to be visiting Hollywood. But last week it meant Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein. All of Hollywood's police reserves turned out one evening to make tunnels through the populace so that Mr. Chaplin could escort Dr. Einstein and a party of scientists to see the first new Chaplin film in two years...
OPENING NIGHT at the Hasty Pudding Theatrical one big coming out party for the campus's bourgeois gent. I dxedo they quall champagne and hobnob at gala parties before, during and after the performance. They speak of friends and women and money mostly money and several spill champagne on their dates blouses, because it is fashionable. They are in large part the affiliant of the Hasty Pudding past and present. One day they will be Lee or perhaps John DeLoreans but tonight, by showtime, many are besotted. All are happy. Staggering penguins in Cambridge, it is a surreal scene...
...Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies, stand thicker than pine tar in taut pennant races as baseball resumes after last week's All-Star break. Though neither starred, Yastrzemski for the American League and Rose for the National were naturally in Montreal to confer, consult and otherwise hobnob with their fellow wizards. Since their base paths do not very often cross, it was a handy time to size them up and make a memory. In another country, in a National League city, the cheers were loudest and warmest for Yastrzemski. Every game, every play, is becoming precious...
...following the basketball team has been very rewarding for the young water- boy. Because of his job, he has had the opportunity to hobnob with the squad's headliners--word from this insider has if that freshman guard Andy Mainelli is "really nice" because she always says "thank you when she gets the water." And during February's Ivy championships at the IAB. Kleinfelder saw to it that her captain's little brother was decked out in an appropriate uniform-- new Harvard sweatsuit, t-shirt, and baseball...
...cheapest tour around. The most expensive seems to be the trip organized by Mrs. Ian Routledge, who, for a fee of $5,000 (exclusive of air fare), will ferry 70 presumptive American socialites from London's St. James' club to stately country homes, where they can hobnob with the elite and perhaps catch a little refracted glory from the wedding...