Party With the Purcells

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“Tis the season of somewhat-stressful party throwing. And right about now, it helps to know that even entertaining experts have had their own learning curves. Sisters Lauren Purcell and Anne Purcell Grissinger – authors of the recently published “Cocktail Parties, Straight Up!” (Wiley, $16.95) – moved to New York together in 1993. And though their ambition was to throw great cocktail parties, it took a while to make it happen.

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