WASHINGTON — In the 1950s and 1960s, if Virginia Warren Daly came to your party, you had it made. Effervescent, beautiful and popular with the opposite sex, the daughter of Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren was a staple of the society columns in Washington and New York.
Daly died of cancer Feb. 19 at her Washington home. She was 80.
Daly was at all the best parties of the era. She and her husband — news broadcaster John Charles Daly, moderator of the long-running television quiz show “What’s My Line?” — attended Truman Capote’s lavish 1966 Black and White Ball in New York.
Among the 510 artists, scientists, diplomats, entertainers and tycoons, “there was no main table, but one was exceedingly popular,” society reporter Charlotte Curtis wrote in The New York Times. “It was where Mr. (Frank) Sinatra, (actress) Claudette Colbert, John Daly and his wife, the former Virginia Warren, and Mrs. Leland Hayward, wife of the producer, sat.”
Daly’s attendance and attire were meticulously recorded at all the gala events of the day.
Virginia Warren was born in Oakland, Calif., and grew up in a political household. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950.
She married Daly in 1960. Her husband died in 1991.
Survivors include three children.
