not from what some newspapers were already calling the greatest party of the twentieth century: Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball. Truman and his guest of honor, Washington Post and Newsweek owner Katharine Graham, received the stream of guests who started trickling in under the bright Plaza overhang around a quarter past ten, stepping out of taxicabs and limousines and black cars and onto the plush red entryway carpeting, finally giving the hordes of reporters and photographers and security men something to make note of and photograph and secure.