Books: Little Girl from Keokuk

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She has spent a lifetime living well at small cost to herself, and bringing profit and pleasure to others. Today, for the publicity she brings, a top Paris dressmaker supplies her with 14 dresses a year on the house. She can invite a score of guests to one of the smartest Paris restaurants and the check will be "lost." Elsa has what it takes. At 71, she is still going strong, still feels "like a little girl on Christmas morning," expecting that "something wonderfully exciting is about to happen." Most likely, it will be another party for an awful lot of famous people who will have a wonderful time. Readers of this lively book about a fabulous life will have a fine time, too.