Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1949 — Page 15
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In State of Numbed Suspense ‘Some Rat Race’ Generally Expected; Parade, Ball to Top All Predecessors
debutante. season in history out of its system. comparative about New Year's celebrations. But the goings-on at the Shoreham Blue Room might give you an idea of what happened this time, Forty Argentinians started a snake dance at 10 p. m. because it was then midnight in Buenos Aires. Thirty Chileans joined them at 11 p. m. because it was then midnight in Chile. And when it was midnight in Wash
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the Parade. in history, complete with steam calliope; the biggest Inaugural Ball “in history—in fact, there will be two of them because the District of Columbia National Guard Armory can accommodate only 5300 dancers; so : Shoat 3000 9, others il + Seighirate at the Pan American Unijon— grea rashes of cocktail - sil SHY has seen in some time, Parties Rita Panty mewhere along the line, it’s just possible that H Truman and Alben Barkley will get a chance to be sworn in as President and Vice President, respectively. Actually, the inugural three-day period—offi
Now, on top of all this : , on , on the 20th, come the
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a festivities will extend over a cially, that is—and you really can’t blame the Democrats if they stretch it even further. It's not often that you set out to attend a wake and suddenly discover that it has turned out to be a christening.
Inaugural Ball So Big It Has
A Trio of Co-Chairmen ; The Inaugural Ball at the Armory will be such a stupendous affair that it has three co-chairmen, Mrs. Perle Mesta, the bigTrumans
Morris, and Wilgon H. Wyatt, the former housing expediter, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, in charge of music, has lined up
Xavier Cugat, Guy Lombardo and Benny Goodman with their
closest girl friends, has been going quietly mad distributing invitations while several thousand people apparently not on the list are clamoring for inclusion. : _ Taxpayers in the provinces who have sensibly decided to avoid the jam-packed, over-priced, happily insane city which Washington will become during Inaugural Week will be glad to know that they aren't being stuck for all this. Washington businessmen, who stand to make a killing anyway, have guaranteed .to cover expenses, but probably won’t have to because ticket sales -for the balls, and for grandstand seats along the parade route —probable will return a net profit, which will go to charity. Belatedly, we have discovered who picked out the ornaments for the White, House outdoor Christmas tree this year, and why | 80 many of them were white instead of the traditional red, blue or green. The selections were made by no less a dignitary than | Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, the President's military aid, who also entertains Mr. Truman by telling him funny stories, and— science marches on—mbst of the ornaments were white because that kind shows up best on television!
Wife of French Ambassador Speaks Fluent American Slang — ~<_
A friend of ours from Philadelphia who attended a reception
at the French Embassy here recently came away rather mystified. was talking French like mad,” she said, “so I hesitantly tried my school girl French on Mme. Bonnet, the French “Ambassador's wife, by saying, ‘Parlez vous Anglais?’ ‘Do I speak English?” Mme. Bonnet repeated. ‘I speak the best American slang you ever heard,’ and she did.” “I was really thrilled,” our friend continued, “befause I was in very distinguished company and I wondered what all these great people would find to talk about. Well, for one hour, the group I was in talked about what kind of cheeses smelled the most. Golly, you could find better conversation than that even in Philadelphia.” : Since his retirement from active duty, Gen. Qarl (Tooey) Spatz, former top dog of the Air Force, has acquired a home in Washington's fashionable—and - vastly overrated—Georgetown section. Extensive remodeling was necessary, and it took much - longer than expected. Tooey-got the.idea he was being bled white, and he was sure of it the other day when he rodé by in a taxi. “I'd sure like to find out the name of the sucker who owns that ~ house,” the cabbie said, pointing to the Spaatz residence. “We call it “The Gravy House.” ; ° An additional housing note: Vice President-Elect Barkley has just had his Connecticut Ave. apartment redecorated and intends to stay there, contrary to reports that he would move into the homé of his daughter, Mrs. Max Truitt, who is now his official hostess. Talk of supplying a mansion for the Vice President, current on Capitol Hill at the time most everyone expected that he would be Earl Warren—the man with six children—has died away completely, which suits Alben fine. A widower, he wouldn't know what to do with the mansion, anyway.
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