Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Education: Gracious Living for All
Walter Winchell did not present a problem when Emily Post began piloting Americans along the winding bayous of gracious living, and the proper adjustments of falsies was not a matter of social import. But manners change: this week, Socialite Amy Vanderbilt (a 44-year-old offshoot of the Staten Island Vanderbilts, who is married to Photographer Hans Knopf) brought out a new book of etiquette which is unblushingly concerned with areas of human endeavor which ladies & gentlemen did not discuss—or had not yet discovered—back in the day of the bustle and the Prince Albert beard.
Not that Arbiter Vanderbilt has been stingy...
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