Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1948 — Page 22

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

e eed Visitors ‘Washington Hectic, but F' un, ~ ‘On Gridiron Club Week-End

Hotels Overflow as Eminent Guests _ Pour Into City for Gay | Festivities

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18— Gridiron Club Week-end is one of the most enjoyable and hectic periods of the Washington winter social season, and this year's festivi“ties were no exception, The Statler ‘and Mayflower Hotels overflowed with visiting firemen here for the Gridiron Club's Saturday night stag banquet ~at which the President and other important figures are thoroughly roasted in their own presence—and for the party the next day to which the ladies are admitted and at which part of the show is repeated. Theré were the winners and the losers—the University ' of Pénnsylvania’s president, Harold Stassen; Republican National + Chairman Hugh Scott, amused at the description of himself in one column as a charming stuffed shirt; Illinois’ briliant Democratic Governor-elect, Adlai Stevenson, and Gov. Dewey himself, impressing everyone belatedly with his warni, Jovablé charm. Gov. Dewey left before the Sunday afternoon cocktail party, but several of his staff stayed on. The Trumans came to the party, Mrs. Truman looking much slimmer in black; with a black Persian lamb coat, and Margaret in black taffeta with a beige broadtail jacket. Among others at the party were Air Force Secretary Symington, tall, thin and handsome, with pretty Mrs. Symington; shrewd, white-haired - Sen. Homer Ferguson of Michigan; Golden Boy Presidential Assistant Clark Clifford, looking for Mrs. Clifford, and the pixillated little genius, Leslie Biffle, Senate SecretaryDesignate, looking for Mrs. Biffle, Losing your wifé or husband or escort or date and going

social life. “You stand right here while I get your drink” . .. that's the last you ever see of him.

Inaugural Ball Co-chairman Moves .

Inaugural Ball, and very elegant in black and a veiled hat, was in attendance. She moved this week into “Uplands,” thé house on j Woxhall Road she's leased for six months, “Uplands” has been ..owned and occupied by lots of illustrious people, including Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Prince and Princess Guido Pignatelll and Sir - John Balfour, who lived there when he was the British minister, Mrs. Mesta, Washington's No, 1 hostess, has leased the mansion furnished, but she is bringing some of her own things 'down from Newport for it. Other guests at the party included the beloved, indestructible * dowager queen, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter. Mrs. Longworth talked about ber baby granddaughter, child of her daughter, Pauline Longworth Sturm, and she says she's an impossibly doting grandmother. “Grammie Longworth, they call me,” she said. “Not Granny— Grammie.” Another grandparent on hand was Presidential Secretary "Charles G. Ross. Old Tom Connally, Texas’ Senatorial gift to the ~- nation, with his black string tie and modified pageboy—or states-man-—haircut, caused some confusion. One of the singers in the Gridiron Show was named Gene Archer. “Yes sir,” old Tom said,

gene was in one of the fashionable cocktail lounges here the other day the head waiter was wringing his hands and about to call the riot squad. The plush of this place is usually broken only by the gentle music of the knife slipping into the back, and" the

Jooks less like an ad for the evils of drink and men than she did this time last year—just shows Jou what Elizabeth Arden r= can do it you give her time and money.” nat scion, however, was throwing his weight around on a unprecedented scale. “I'm on a liquid diet,” he yelled. “‘Bouruaa that is.” The head waiter, who Is Swiss, hovered around him, murmuring to several women, “He iss from the West—the Wild

offensive.” ul finally did corral some women—old friends of his mother’s into sitting down with him. “Bring the girls anything they ' he ter. “I'll have a pearl necklace,” said one for me,” the other sald. Jniesion he said. 2 Sal grandfather and grand‘est Coast and built the greatest little . TH ‘die a pauper before I'll let them tsch not going to get those oll wells—won't let and down.” who asked for the pearl necklace patted. his hand e soup. “That's all right, dear”. she right place . . . we'll introduce you to who'll put you iri fail.”

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home with someone else's is one of the hazards of Washington | and |

Mrs. Perle Mesta, co-chairman of the forthcoming Truman |

buzz of such conversation as, “Well, my dear? I think she |

West, I belief—don’t go near the table, Madame—he iss on the |

By JEAN TABBERT I» GENEROUS amounts of a ingenuity and a clever hand [7 . [from their husbands have = [turned the apartments of three {young doctors’ ‘wives into treasuries of pennywise home decoration ideas. ., : ‘Sherry Bean, whose apartment along with . the others, is in {Lansing St, was the first of the {three to learn the: budgetbalancing lesson. Her husband, (Joe, now is a résident physician {at the Indiang University Medical = (Center. -Bhe- nurses at the Cold: Spring Road Veterans Hospital. | During those days of interne{ship when money was hard to {find, Sherry and Joe painted walls, |made and refinished furniture, ex- f/

{panded storage space. Before their marriage, they each “hdunted” furniture sales, there

Yellow, gray and green color scheme. . It. was seams.

picked up items like their Seth| Thomas clock and the pewter set|as a butchering board. [in the dining room, extreme covered with many coats of green table constructed Iright. + paint. crates and plywood Joe, intrigued by old wobds, a = = $2.50. carved the pulls on the heirloom, SHERRY sewed four matching with the wine border of the yel-| cherry chest in the same room. scatter rugs together (8x11”) to!low couch Sherry covered. Their matching table was rescued make a dining room rug. The cas-|

A red leatheret cocktail|flowered drapes there. The Beans| from orange |also have used a set of six Rockcost ‘only {well Kent etchings to tie the dinIt's two tiered and blends|ing and living rooms together,

Her dining room chairs are up- an interne at the Med Genter} provides storage space beneath.

{rom a cousin whe was using it! ual Observer never notices the holstered in chintz to match the] also have to count thelr pennies. He also made the coffee tablel!linen cupboard.

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wry iy QL and covered the occasional chain : gp shown with a green tapestry rems 5 : io nant Dee found.

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Make Doctors’ Wises Kae Home Fires Aglow With Pennywise Ideas

| Dee, a news digest editor, {painted the blinds with water sole

uble paints to match their respece rooms.

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{drapes are yellow faille, © checked ones in the yellow and # |plue kitchen are blue and white, Carrying the yellow through the thouse tricks the eye, makes. it |seem larger.

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‘JAN ELLISON, the wife of Gv Roger Ellison, another interne at IU, and the mother of l-yeare

s old Kay Ellison, made her kitchen

Cherry furniture against sky. blue walls.

She's used a wool blanket on theé|ticles from an old commode. Now sofa shown (left, above) until a lit's cut in two to provide space |slipcover can be bought. George | for Kay's toys. Roger built“drain

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built the bright yellow record boards for the Iplayer. The chest has a lid that|shelves in the kitchen and bedDEE and “George Morec (he’s lifts up to change the records,iroom. A closet too small to hang clothes was converted into a

kitchen sink,

curtains from seed Bagks, She lacqubred a coffee table so it looks like ebony. Like Sherry a nurse ‘at Cold Spring Hospital, Jan made her own drapes, helped Roger build a shelf for the ‘baby’s tollet are

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