How to Win Invitations and Influence Newspaper Columnists.

Inscribed by Jerome Zerbe: to Audrey - in memory of all the treacherous peaks we've scaled together- Jerry-

[186] pp.

Doubleday & Company, Inc

1965

8 1/2" x 5 3/4"

VG/ VG

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This tongue-in-cheek survey of social aspiration in the age of caf society was written by someone who knew the subject well, the lensman for the legendary El Morocco. The photos of celebrities and socialites posing in the zebra-striped banquettes were taken by him. He blends advice with anecdote, as if the reader were seated next to him at dinner, with stories on how and why to take ones place in society. With cameos by various Vanderbilts and Astors, Elsa Maxwell, Laura (Mrs. Malaprop) Corrigan, Ward McAllister, et al. Its breezy social discourse but fascinating. Zerbe understood that beneath the froth, there was substance.

To have prestige in New York, aristocratic lineage and wealth are not enough. One must also be sociable, amusing, and more than willing to entertain.

--Jerome Zerbe