Trilling from a New Tree

Although her saucy syndicated copy was still running six days a week in about 60 U.S. newspapers, Society Columnist Aileen Mehle, better known as Suzy, was as sad as a songbird with laryngitis. For two months after the demise of the World Journal Tribune, Suzy had no journalistic tree to trill from in New York, her home town and headquarters of the jet-setters whose fads and foibles she chronicles with re freshing irreverence. Last week Suzy was back home, regaling readers of the New York Daily News (circ. 2,100,000) with her tart tales. Items:

> "Charlotte Ford Niarchos," she wrote in her first column, "has been schlepping around the Greek islands with her ex-husband, Tanker King Stavros Niarchos, on his yacht Creole. This has been the most romantic divorce. Remember how sticky it was when they were married? Charlotte hardly ever saw Stavros, and the only thing she had to remember him by was her 61-carat diamond ring--and the baby, of course."

> Of the Chicago stage debut (The Philadelphia Story) about to be endured by Jackie Kennedy's sister, Suzy said: "Truman Capote is in Chicago holding Lee Radziwill's hand. If anyone can stop the trembling it's Truman. Truman loves Lee, and Lee loves Truman. Why, they've practically circumnavigated the globe together, roughing it on oceangoing yachts and making the best of it in the best hotels. You get to really know people that way."

> Previewing a charity ball that will be held in Venice in September, after a chichi screening committee selects the 700 guests, Suzy predicted: "Prospective guests will be strained through fine silk, like vichyssoise, and are expected to end up the same way--rich, creamy, perfectly blended--with maybe a sprinkling of chives for excitement."

> Tracing the latest developments in the Lynda Bird-George Hamilton romance she wrote: "Half an hour after George arrived at the Regency Hotel, Lynda Bird and the Secret Service men were up in George's suite. She learned her timing from daddy."

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