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Ching Solves Haberdashery Problem Fol
By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Cyrus Ching, cloud-scraping chief of
the U. 8. Conciliation Service, got to the Gridiron dinner OK this year, having solved his haberdashery problem early. : ‘Mr. Ching was due to show up at the dinner two years ago, too, but couldn't make it on account of his size, Mrs. Ching haa phoned a suit-renting emporium and told them to set aside a set of tajls for her husband. But when Cy es dropped in at the shop the day of bow tie and there wasn’t a lifted the dinner to try on the oytfit he eyebrow in the joint. coudn’t get into it. P. 8. too. There's one amSeems there'd been a slight Passador in town who'll’ never misunderstanding between Mrs, 8¢t & bid to the dinner. She's Ching and the clerk who'd taken the charming Mme. Pandit, envoy her telephone order. She'd told from India, and she’s barred be-
him Mr. Ching was six feet, five cause the affair is strictly stag
inches tall.
He heard it five feet, ao" six, |
Pshaw! They raffled off a swell brocaded evening bag, all fitted out with powder and rouge and other female warpath fix-
Mrs. Barkley a Hit
THE NEW Mrs. Alben Barkley made a hit at the repeat perform-| ance of the Gridiron’s annual! show, the day after the dinner. Monsignor attached to the VatiOne of her daughters-in-law told . ¢#n delegation. her that as the Veep's bride she =r" should let people come to her, but Candidate Defies Rain she just grinned and kept right WHEN JOHN W. DAVIS reon circulating. ceived the news in Clarksburg, P. 8. Only guy at the dinner W. Va., that he'd been nominated who didn’t doll up in white tie for President by the Democrats and tails was Carl Sandberg, the in 1924 he read his acceptance literary gent. He showed up in/speech from his front porch. In: his usual gray business suit and{the middle of his oratory. it began
Christmas bazaar. But the lucky winner turned out to he a
in's at the Italian Embassy's °
Co ¢ to rain, whereupon a young lawver stepped forward with a raincoat and threw it over Mr. Davis’
shoulders. One salty bystander, unimpressed with Mr. Davis’ speech,
decided to go home. But before he left, he turned to a pal with a hmph. “Why,” he cracked, “that young fellow who brought out the raincoat will be President before Johnny Davis makes it.”
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Mr. Davis lost the election, The young lawyer is doing pretty well, though. He's Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. - ~ - “ Mr. Johnsen, by the way, looked right happy at an Overseas Writers’ Club luncheon even if he was the only guy in the house drinking ginger ale. Says he hasn't touched the real sfuff in 10 years, -
A New Type Bed
ANY TIME the Brazilian government runs short of dough it's got a sure-fire way of raising some, right here in Washington All ft has to do is hire a good press agent and charge admis sion to see the new swan-shaped
bed just brought over from Paris
by Hugo Gouthier, counsellor at the Brazilian Fmbassy. a bachelor, ”. ~ 5 Next big shot foreigner to invade the U. 8S. will be Sir Basil Brooke, prime minister of northern Ireland. He'll get the full red carpet treatment from the British Embassy, but the State Department is in a sweat—bhbeg pardon, Mr. Ache-
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- " » : . tatill life. Mrs. Black says sh Hires .New Adviser can't draw a lick, though. THE STATE DEPARTMENT'S a 8 nm
got a new technical adviser in the" Don’t sell Washington short Foreign Service Institute. She's Mrs. Paul Alling, widow of the former ambassador to Pakistan and you might cail her the department's official Emily Post. | Among other things, Mrs. Alling tells freshman diplomats and their wives how much dough to take along to a new post, how to travel with a baby (plenty of disposable diapers) how many evening dresses to buy (don't,
of excuses. to Edward Acheson, Secretary of State running a shindig at his farm in Vienna, Va. at which he's
down his own Christmas tree, He's even furnishing the axes, And, we hope, ” ~
tea, and how to break up a dinner the ambassador party (be firm). Diplomacy sure says she can get is complicated.
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Adept With Brush 1¥ ANYBODY “went
of the Supreme Court Justice, of the Pan American Union's ne
doesn’t watch out she's going to building, it was his own fault. on a congressional investigation become more famous than her There were five different bars|of defense unification policies.
paintings accepted fora Corcoraniy buffet tb match each one | Gallery - exhibition, and a second ® one is on display at the Smith-, nia : it She's versa. S¢nteel, though: the only music tile, too—the Corcoran jop.is a was furnished by an organ. The
[the one at the Smithsonian is a’
—this town still hasn't run out throw parties. brother of Dean, is |
going to let each guest chop
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MEN, solve your wives' pack-| Capt. Crommelin had “nothing show up the boss’ wife), how to ing problems. Buy ‘em a flock of further to say” on charges he| run a tea party and make proper saris. Mrs, G. C. Corea, wife of renewed last night just before 3 Ceylon, leaving Washington that a “Prus- ¥
30 or 40 of/slan-type” general staff was tak- a these silk roll-your-own dresses ing
forces. i | He indicated then that neither!%® ° home he nor many other officers in
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