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New Year’s Eve will find Margaret Mead in Switzerland, Arthur Murray in Honolulu, Carmine Lombardozzi in jail, Charles Atlas in Brooklyn and Malcolm X in Queens—without a drink.
“I shall stay home contemplating some of the disasters ahead in 1965,” Malcolm X said yesterday.
Charles Buckley has no plans for tonight. Neither does Clay Blair, the editor who led the revolt this year on The Saturday Evening Post. Neither does Traffic Commissioner Henry Barnes, who “will take a pill and go to bed early.”
But most New Yorkers —despite the shortage of taxicabs, despite the desperate gaiety of the evening — plan to be in the middle of some noisy scene come midnight.
Cleveland Amory, in fact, has received invitations to 13 parties tonight.
They include the Milton Caniffs’, the Howard Lindsays’, the Clyde Newhouses’, the Robert Gardiners’, the Vincent Prices’ (in California), and also parties at Delmonico’s, the Plaza, the St. Regis and the Sheraton‐East.
The hosts and hostesses at the Sheraton‐East will include Mr. and Mrs. Huntington Hartford, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Pierpont 3d, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore L. Cross—and a. live baby pink elephant wearing diapers and representing the New Year.
It is not known precisely where Mayor Wagner will spend New Year’s Eve, although five hosts say he will be at their parties, and there is a chance—if the Mayor attends the Town Club party at the Waldorf‐Astoria—that he’ll run into Carmine G. De Sapio. But not if he can help it.
Mr. De Sapio has received about four invitations for tonight’s parties, his wife says. Yogi Berra, who was dropped as Yankee manager this year, has received one invitation. He has accepted. He did not disclose the name of the host, but it is not Whitey Ford—who did not invite him.
Mrs. Ford, who plans a party in Great Neck for 30 guests, said none of them are ball players. “We see ball players during the season,” she explained yesterday.
