Table Talk

O.K., the key figure is six mill. That's just about what the Sid Basses of Fort Worth, the Gordon Gettys of San Francisco, and the John Gutfreunds of the River House paid for their new Upper East Side digs. And that's before a curtain is hung. One estimate for the Gettys' curtains came to just under a million dollars.

Ever wonder what senators' wives do with their old panty hose? Babs Bush and her charitable pals meet every Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill to stuff handmade puppets with had-it hosiery. (They were rolling bandages until 1977, when the Red Cross told them it wasn't sterile.)

In Hollywood the mountains of fat no longer have to go to the Muhammads of exercise. For fifty dollars an hour Ann Turkel's traveling gym comes to you. A vehicle like a U.P.S. van pulls into your drive and you clamber into the back with some musclebounder and play with the weights.

Dry cleaners are joining hairdressers as the social directors of Los Angeles. Rod Stewart, George Benson, and Rick Springfield are in the thrall of Hollyway Cleaners. And Jeremy French Hand Laundry rules one anonymous socialite utterly. "I love Jeremy," she says, ''but he's so-o-o-o mean. He didn't like my new shirts from London, and he just refused to do them. Of course, I'd never go to anyone else. "

Diana Vreeland on her equestrian exhibition at the Met: ''It was the most difficult one I've done yet. Nobody in New York has ever seen a horse, let alone dressed one." Too busy looking at photographs by Horse P. Horse?

Spanish tapas are the new picky, bitty food fad, so hacienda sushi. SoHo's El Intemacional is so acutely trendy it's difficult to get to the bar to swallow three mushrooms for $2.50.

Catherine Oxenberg trivia: In herN.Y.C. modeling days, thrifty Catherine (now Dynasty's Amanda) marked the level of her yogurt with a felt-tip pen lest her roommates purloin a mouthful.

St. Paul's Church, Harvard Square, offers whole-wheat Hosts.