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 ...

Mesta once set up First Daughter Margaret Truman with John F. Kennedy, sending them on a series of dates at concerts and the Ice Capades and seating them together at a dinner for the Trumans.

Pryor Creek Police, Fire, and MESTA responded to a structure fire on SE 22nd Street Wednesday morning.Officials said everyone ...

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 ...