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...career began with a series of lucky strokes. In her first job in the Foreign Service, she worked in Paris for David Bruce, who was helping to set up the Marshall Plan. When Bruce was named U.S. Ambassador to France, Tish became social secretary to him and his wife Evangeline. In 1951 she worked briefly for the CIA on "a lot of secret stuff." Then, having learned Italian from a contessa and a tape recorder, she landed a job as social secretary to the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce, who became a close friend and is now godmother...
Back in the U.S., Baldrige became Tiffany's first woman executive, their public relations director. When the Kennedys moved into the White House, Tish became Jackie's social secretary, as well as J.F.K.'s protocol officer. She loved the work, although she was disconcerted to find that practically every man who took her out was playing her for a power angle at the White House. She became promotions director at the Kennedys' Merchandise Mart in 1963, then opened her own p.r. company in Chicago. Six years later she folded it to go to New York City...
...Tish decided to go back into business for herself with Letitia Baldrige Enterprises, Inc. Her company, with a staff of nine, is small but energetic. She has just started a new subsidiary called Business Receptions, which organizes and runs parties and other functions for companies...
...Chicago, Tish married Robert Hollensteiner, a real estate executive who, among other things, has the advantage of being nearly four inches taller than Tish. They live with their son Malcolm, 11, in a twelve-room cooperative apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park. Daughter Clare is away at the boarding school Tish attended, Miss Porter...
...Says Tish: "I'll get into one taxi, get in a traffic jam, jump out and walk four blocks, get in another taxi and then finish the last lap in the subway...