Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1948 — Page 21

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SUNDAY, NOV. 28, 1948

UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization Adds Little to Social Gaiety of Washington

Delegates Se Closely to Business, In Contrast to Opulent Loan Seekers By ELISE MORROW WASHINGTON, Nov. 27--The Food and Agricul tural Organization of the United Nations is in meeting here currently, and it is doubtless to its credit so far as serious work and absence of frivolity are concerned that its delegates are bringing no joy to the hearts of those who profit from Washington's social life. + “I'd rather nave some from one of them poor little countries,” one maitre d’hotel here remarked sadly this week. “They come over here to float a loan and they get it and, honey, I swear ® they leave half of it right here in tips.”

He went on to describe the latest of this type of exhibit in Washington, a

Numerous parties are being planned by Indianapolis couples to precede the annual charity ball of St. Margaret's Hospital Guild Saturday night in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rus-

Mr. and Mrs. Gene L. Wil-

+ llams will be hosts to Messrs.

Diana Barrett and Russel Williams Jr. Mr, and Mrs. L. M. Vogler, Mr. and Mrs. Mort Martin, John Burke and Harrison M.

Mrs. [Silver Hills. There will be a gift

Bennett will be entertained by Mr. and Mrs. 8. E. Fenstermgker in their country home “Fenwald.”

Guests of the Dudley J. E. Kempers will be Messrs. and Mesdames John A. Royse, John L. Scott, Arthur A. Fairbanks, Howard J. E. Kemper, M, C, Rosner and William C. Hunter and Mrs. Clara Borchert.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Miles will have as their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Curt Hirshland and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Boyer.

Queens’ Club to Meet On Thursday

The Queens’ Club will have its annual Christmas dinner-meeting at 6:30 p. m. Thursday in the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Kemper,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Parties Are Formed For St. . Margaret's Guild Ball

exchange.

Mr. aad Mrs Bart A. Gwynn will entertain in their home for their guests. They will, be Messrs. and Mesdames Edward

Cain, Robert H. Cowan, Gordon Fuller, Donald Henry and Jack Lunt.

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ken-

worthy ‘and Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Huggins will be entertained by the Charlés R. Israels.

Guests who will gather informally in the home of Mr, and Mrs. Ken M. Mosiman include - Messrs. and Mesdames Walter I. Hess, Augustus Coburn, John R. Brant, Stanley G. Disque, W. Marshall Dale, Howard T. Griffith, Earle Baier, Frank 8. Dowling and Roy Petty. A cocktail party will be given by Mr. and Mrs. John Sloane Smith for Messrs. and Mesdames William P. Cooling,

J. Grumme. Messrs, and Mesdames WilRobert Rogers,

and Mr. Gilbert Corbin will attend a cocktail party in the home of Mrs. Jesse Rodabaugh.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Gisler wil entertain in their home for Messrs. and Mesdames R. Harold Andrew, Herman Selka, Donald C. Moore, James E. Babcock, A.

Students Visit L. M. Rileys

Thomas Mangersdorf, Webster Groves, Mo., and William B. Riley, students at the University of Notre Dame, are visiting Mr. Riley’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Riley, 15 N. Drexel Ave. this week-end.

Dorr Babcock, Constantine G. Borshoff and Ted A. Senn.

In the party of Mrs. Rex

William Hackworth, Luther E. Brooks, W. C. Worcester and Daniel A. Park and Mrs. Dorothy Trimpe. Mr. and Mrs. Kenreth P. Stokes and Mr. and Mrs, William A. Pearson will be entertained in the home of Mr, and Mrs. Robert C. Blessing. The guests of Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Thomas will be Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Cornelius, Mr. and Mrs. Leon DeSautels and Dr. a Ht, Ray Thorpe,

The monthly, Nmdieen and business meeting of St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild will be held at 12:30 p. m. Tuesday in the country home, “Fenwald,” of Mrs. 8. E. Fenstermaker.

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Anniversary

|Observanee Set

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Dodson will celebrate their 50th with an open house today in their homie, 1121 W, 35th St. It will be held from 2 to 5 p. m. Their daughter, Mrs. Herbert R. Sample, Miami, Fla. and daughters-in-law, Mrs. T. B. Dodson and Mrs. Irvin R, Dodson, will assist. Also, Mesdames Donald Kolloch, Ben Graesch and Ernest McPhetridge, Miss Charlotte Wright Shirley Graesch. There are no invitations. -

Fashion Show Set

A fashion show and dance will be sponsored by the Hadassah Debs at 8 p. m:, Dec. 16. The event will be held in Kirshbaum

Center.

feudal character who goes magnificently through the hotel lobby tossing folding money to the help like crumbs to the peasants. “We've nicknamed him the Maharajah,” the maitre went on, “even | though he rides up to the hotel in a Cadillac instead of an elephant, and isn’t really from India, either.” The Maharajah actually is rather typical of a slowly fading diplomatic caste, and the maitre d’ was correct— one of the most obvious and striking facts of Washington life is that the most deprived and backward countries are represented here, at times, by men who would make good studies in medieval depravity. Eric Johnston's suggestion that our ambassadors be more representative of the population they represent might turn out to work well both ways. One of the most successful | envoys in Washington was Galo Plaza, now President of Ecuador, who advertised himself widely and reasonably accurately as a | dirt farmer, and got insulted if anyone called him a diplomat. The Food and Agriculture people have tended to business pretty thoroughly, not attempting to compete socially with their fellow UN outfit, the monetary stabilization folk, who broke all Jeogrds for cocktails and parties during their recent Washington meeting.

State Department Group Upholds U. S. Dignity at Wine-Tasting Party HOWEVER, the FAO delegates and the resident diplomatic | set did go to one of the most unusual parties ever held in the capital—a wine-tasting party givéh by the Portuguese delegation to the conference. This was in the nature of a high-class publicity stunt for Portugal's number one product—wine—and was preceded by a little lecture, on the necessity for moderation, given by one of the hosts, Rodrigo de Castro. De Castro told the guests to drink as much as they wanted to, but not to mix more than two kinds of wine and one brandy. Hé¢é said, pointedly, that he hoped the guests would not be depressed by the lack of such drinks as the Martini, the Manhattan and the Old-Fashioned. “Bear in mind, ladies and gentlemen, the words of Ernest Hemingway,” he concluded. “ ‘Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world. It offers a greater range of appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.’ ” . Thus counseled, the guests tore into red and white still wines, sparkling wines, white port and sweet port, madeira and, finally, brandy. Hors d'oeuvres were served with the wines, and coifee with the brandy. Plus the delegates and ambassadors, there was quite a group from our State Department on hand to uphold the honor and dignity of the United States.

Mrs. Charles Brannan Described | As Perfect Truman Cabinet Wife

THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR and Mme. Bonnet distracted the conference members and diplomats with a cocktail hour reception in honor of France's Minister of Agriculture, who has the delightful name of Pierre Pflimlin. Guests included our most ' homespun cabinet member, Jesse Donaldson, the Postmaster General, and Mrs. Charles Brannan, the slim, dark-haired wife of the Secretary of Agriculture. One of the busiest official wives, Mrs. Brannan has been pinch-hitting for Mrs. Truman at social events recently, and she has achieved more for the administration in general constructive goodwill than any of the other cabinet wives. One Washington hostess said Mrs. Brannan was a perfect Truman cabinet wife, embodying all the virtues and | none of the faults that this implies. She has a quality that is | middle western without being provincial, and warm simplicity | without affectation. Others who came to shake hands with M. Pflimlin—not to speak with him unless they spoke French, since he speaks very little English—were Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. John Graham, and Mrs. Robert Lovett, wife of the Undersecretary of State. Washington intellectual ite, ordinarily comatose, had a shot in the arm with the visit of T. 8. Eliot, St. Louis- | born Nobel Prize winner, and his fellow re W. H. Auden. Both were entertained at dinner. The cultural front further involved a musical evening at | which Cornelius Vanderbilt (Sonny) Whitney and his beautiful, humorless wife entertained the Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. John W. Snyder; the Secretary of the Army and Mrs. Kenneth Royall, and various other music lovers,

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