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When you are a guest on a yacht, Tish advises, use the shower very sparingly; wait until you are on shore to wash your hair. Always bring a decent can of balls, she reminds tennis players. Tish does not deal, however, with the vexing question of whether a man should deliberately ease up on his velocity when serving to a woman. Is it condescending...
...Baldrige Vanderbilt makes a handsome flipping book, although it cannot rival in sheer opulence of detail and gesture the original Emily Post (1922), with its tensely fascinating vignettes, involving Mrs. Cravin Praise, Mr. Stocksan Bonds, Mrs. Climber, Mrs. Oldworld, Mrs. Wellborn, the Upstarts and the Richan Vulgars (see box). Tish is always straightforward, forbearing and rather elegant in her directness. She enjoys making sense...
...Tish Baldrige is a very memorable character. At 6 ft. 1 in., with her strong, intelligent head held at full altitude, her white hair swept back in the Fifth Avenue mane, she enters a room with queenly bearing. But Tish manages to mitigate her formidable presence: she is a direct and funny woman with a clear gaze and a trace of self-mockery. Far from stuffy about good taste, she is even given to repeating the awful and ancient schoolyard joke that is a painful memory to every oversize woman: "Confucius say, boy who dance with tall girl get bust...
...Tish came from a well-off, but by no means rich lawyer's family in Omaha. Her father, Howard Malcolm Baldrige, a strikingly handsome athlete at Yale who was decorated in both World Wars, served as a Republican Congressman from Nebraska for two terms...
...Tish was sent east to Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. She went to Vassar at 16, graduating at 19 with a B.A. in psychology. After a year at the University of Geneva, Tish decided she wanted to work in Europe. She displayed even then her persistent ability to stand back, set goals and methodically fulfill them. The State Department said she would need secretarial skills even to apply for a job overseas; she knocked off a year-long secretarial curriculum in eight weeks...