'Why did I wait so long to live here?' asked the glamorous star. The guest of honor was ecstatic over her new guy - Percy Gibson - and also over her new life in New York. Routes: United, Alaska change miles plans just as summer travel kicks offīASH OF BEAUTIES: Joan Collins' birthday cocktail do, given by Connie and Randy Jones in their posh 57th Street digs, drew the beauties - Mary Lou Whitney, Nikki Haskell, Yanna Avis, Muffy Aston, Phyllis George, Gail Hayman, Nancy Holmes, Carolina Herrera, Ann Slater, Sharon Sondes and Annette Tapert.

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I asked if he ever crossed Paige on editorial or other matters. But the all-important CN headman Steve Florio was on hand to sing Paige's praises.

I suppose Truman was elsewhere, tinkering with one of Conde Nast's more modest and inscrutable publications. Si said he was sometimes intimidated by his famous editor, but cited her as 'unique' and noted the record-breaking success of her publication in editorial glitter and expensive advertising. He might have gleaned a thing or two from the glowing tribute that host Si Newhouse paid to the inimitable Paige, who has been with Conde Nast now for nine glorious and super-successful years. Of course, James Truman, the Conde Nast 'creative' director, failed to show for the celebration of editor Paige Rense's 30 years of triumphs at Architectural Digest.

The Times review makes it sound as serious as war itself, but it's a racy, wonderful page-turner from Random House.

Doctorow Phyllis Newman and Adolph Green Hal and Judy Prince Elizabeth Peabody Jean Kennedy Smith New York Timesman Joe Lelyveld Schuyler Chapin Jim and Toni Goodale James and Kathy Hoge Iris Love Kate Medina Oz and Inger Elliott, et al. Other guests included writers Nora Ephron, Nick Pileggi and Alice and Michael Arlen caricaturist Al Hirschfeld and his wife, Louise Helen and E.L. They mingled with another ace, Tex McCrary, as well as Pulitzer Prize-winner Frankie Fitzgerald and Lauren Bacall. Roscoe Brown, the first American pilot ever to shoot down a German jet, and Lee Archer, 'The Black Ace.' Then there was Marine Gene Doughty, who spent his 21st birthday on Iwo Jima, and Patton's tank man, E.G. They turned out to be some of the book's protagonists, such as Dr. Tall, handsome, stalwart-looking former Tuskegee airmen dominated the party.

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