Etiquette Returns, Plus a Doctor Odyssey Deathwatch Update

Also, Kim K is an actress now, and Eurovision is Saturday.

Last July, we flipped through my favorite book in my collection of vintage etiquette books, 1978’s The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, edited by the former social secretary to Jacqueline Kennedy, Letitia Baldrige. She offered many notes for travel, including how to use a light bulb as an iron and what to do when you need an emergency wig stand. With any luck, when you read this, I will be off on my honeymoon/50th birthday trip — and huge thank you to everyone who gave great tips for Italy when I crowdsourced this! I will repay you by investigating how much Pope Leo merch they’ve rushed out! — and it felt right to return to the travel section to take in some more knowledge.

First of all, I do love a list. Baldrige’s “Travel Check List” is the perfect combo of “absolutely still applicable” (1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 13, 16), “incredibly dated” (2, 9 only because of the waterproof scarves, 10 because of the stationery specifically, 11, 12), and "I guess?”(3, 5, 14 because of that insane…