Children Are Bored on Sunday
Fiction by Jean Stafford, from 1948: “If the sight of someone so peripheral, so uninvolving as Alfred Eisenburg could scare her so badly, what would a cocktail party do?”
She came face to face with Salvador Dali, whose sudden countenance, familiar from the photographs in public places, momentarily stopped her dead, for she did not immediately recognize him and took him also to be someone she knew.