Columnist Earl Wilson hosted a celebrity party for Jacqueline Susann’s blockbuster book The Love Machine on May 1, 1969. Among the guests at Earl’s West Side penthouse on West 57th Street for this literary bash were Van Johnson, Orson Bean, Jack E. Leonard, Toots Shor, Andy Warhol and Ethel Merman (all regulars of Earl’s New York Post gossip column).