In this fascinating memoir, she reveals a career sparkling with a host of other achievements: embassy work overseas, becoming the first female executive at Tiffany & Co., and founding one of the first companies run by a female CEO. Known as the "Doyenne of Decorum", she wrote a newspaper column, ran her own PR firm, and, along with updating Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette, she published 20 books and appeared on Late Night with David Letterman and the cover of Time magazine. N° de ref.Letitia "Tish" Baldrige (FebruOctober 29, 2012) was an American etiquette expert, public relations executive and author who was most famous for serving as Jacqueline Kennedy's Social Secretary. Their home was the site of many memorable gatherings of influential and remarkable people from journalism, politics and general society over the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Evans was a trustee for Vassar College for 15 years. In 1980 she became the managing editor of The Washington Journalism Review, a publication on the press and in 1983 became editor, a position she held until 1987.
After college she worked on the editorial page of The Minneapolis Times, and moved to Washington in 1948 where she met and married Rowland Evans, Jr., then a reporter for the Associated Press Washington Hill bureau. She graduated from the Putney School in Vermont and was a 1946 graduate of Vassar College, where she was editor of the Vassar Chronicle. Winton was president of the Winton Lumber Company. Evans grew up in Minnesota outside Minneapolis on the shore of Lake Minnetonka her father David J. a major figure in the social life of Georgetown, Washington, DC from the 1960s on. PROVENANCE: Katherine "Kay" Winton Evans was a Washington writer and editor and with her husband political columnist and television journalist Rowland Evans, Jr. This copy is inscribed to Baldrige's good friend and a friend of the Kennedy's Kay Winton Evans. Baldrige's prose is enlivened with many photographs and the wonderful addition of the menus and recipes for the evening provided by White House Chef Rene Verdon. The remarkable luncheon for Princess Grace, the fabulous musical evening for Pablo Casals, the literary evening with Andre Malraux and so many more. Autograph 144 pages Inscribed and Signed on the halftitle - To Kay - / Some happy memories are / here - Tish Hollensterner / Apr 1, 1998" This marvelous book by Jacqueline Kennedy's good friend and White House social secretary describes several of the stellar evenings of grand entertainment at the White House during the Kennedy Administration.
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