But some of Drury’s Dolly is a toned-down Perle Mesta, the capital’s most famous mid-twentieth-century party-giver. Readers are told that in Dolly’s “great white house amid the dark green ...

In "Call Me Madam," the 1953 movie version of Irving Berlin's hit musical, it was no secret that Ethel Merman was channeling a real person – a wealthy widow by the name of Perle Mesta ...

Bestselling author Meryl Gordon's biography "The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington's Most Famous Hostess" (Grand Central Publishing), tells the story of the socialite ...

The widow of a steel magnate, socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., in the 1940s and '50s, becoming known as "The Hostess with the Mostes' on ...

Edmundo González Urrutia, Venezuelan opposition politician, is visiting Costa Rica. He has been traveling in Latin America and meeting with political leaders since January 2, prior to Nicolás Maduro’s ...

Mumbai: The Maharashtra English School Trustees Association (MESTA) has threatened to hold protests if the state government does not release over ₹2,400 crore in pending Right to Education (RTE ...

Santo Domingo.-The hotel where Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González stayed in Santo Domingo last week no longer shows signs of the heightened security seen in recent days. Police and SWAT ...

The focus also remains on Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, the opposition candidate who, according to the verification of the tallies by international organizations, was the winner of the July presidential ...

Self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González is rallying regional support for the opposition's claims that he won the July election against President Nicolás Maduro. Days before ...

She is fluent in English, Sylheti and Bengali and conversational in Urdu and Hindi. Edmundo González, the self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader, has stepped up his efforts to garner ...

Santo Domingo.-Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia arrived in the Dominican Republic via the Ambassadors’ Lounge at Las Américas International Airport. He was welcomed by Francisco ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Edmundo González has become a beacon of hope for millions of Venezuelans. They want to call him president. He believes he won that office at the ballot box last year.