Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1950 — Page 14

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“Constituents Provide Turkey, Texas Peas For Brannan Dinner

Friendly, Homespun Cabinet Couple

Manage to Live on Secretary's Salary y ELISE MORROW

WASHINGTON, Jan, 7—The nation’s leading food executive, Secretary of Agriculture ‘Charles F. Brannan, put into effect his private Brannan Plan for food consumption thé other day--sauerkraut, black-eyed peas and more brandy in the fruit cup. The Brannans, who are certainly the warmest and most homspUn Cabinet couple, had a small dinner for a few friends at their unpretentious apartment, with Mrs, Brannan, in an apron, doing the cooking, and the Secretary, in a smok“ing jacket, passing judgment, Slim, dark-haired Mrs. Brannan is an exceedingly conscientious if rather apprehensive cook. She didn’t | | think the fruit ¢up had enough char- | | acter, so she brought a sample in to the Secretary, who sensibly suggested | an extra dash of brandy, The fruft-cup | was followed by a turkey sent by a | Brannan admirer in Nebraska. (This |

the constituents.) The meal also included sweet poia~toes, sauerkraut and black-eyed peas. The peas were sent by another admirer, in Texas, who promised the Secretary that if he ate them, they would bring him good luck. Mr, Brannan dutifully and hopefully até them. The sauerkraut developed because Mrs. Brannan tried to think of something her guests wouldn't be tired of after the holidays, and the sauerkraut certainly filled the bill in that department. The sweet potatoes were on the menu simply because the Brannans like sweet potatoes. Dessert was a pastry and whipped ecream-banana-pineap-ple concoction — fruit cake would have been too rich, Mrs,

Brannan thought—with cham- Yields Slam

pagne and coffee. Success Averts The Brannans, who are child- - i -

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Brannan’s- Cabfivet “saiary “and dy A bin too N “tor his; are proud of it. This naturally

jump to four hearts. And South eliminates any lqvish parties; showed a touching confidence in| in fact, dinners like the one de- his partner's bidding when he! scribed constitute their usual tried for slam with a four-no-| entertaining. The Secretary is (rump call. | an amateur chef himself, with a | When his partner opened the! fondness for seafood, but with- bidding third hand, South wanted out much opportunity these !

Elise Morrow

Blackwood on Bridge—

Bold Bidding

days to concentrate on such a South dealer, frivolous, time-consuming hob- Both sides vulnerable. by. . NORTH Actually Cabinet members | 8A 653 and their wives are usually too | H-KQl18 poor, comparatively speaking, | D—A 4 or too busy working and or go- C—AT3 ing to other people's parties to WEST EAST do much of the typical, large- | S—10 8 74 SJ scale sort of Washington enter HeA J H-138 taining themselves. Exceptions | D-KJIsS D100 6 2 are the strictly official recep- | C—884 CJ 10 3 2 tions, such as those given for | : SOUTH the diplomatic corps by the See- | SK Q ; refary of State. or his Under- | H-9#8542 secretary, and such special cases | DQ 8 7 as Undersecretary of Commerce | CK QP9

Corneltus Vanderbilt Whitney | and a few others, who have

to make a stronger “bid than one heart. But he couldn't figure out what that bid should be. He didn't fancy jumping to two hearts with a sult as weak as five to the nine, He didn’t like two no trump § because of the doubleton spade holding and because such a bid would probably prevent the finding of a heart fit, if there was one, A double club raise seemed pointless and would not Accurately describe his hand. So South settled for a bid of one heart,

Decides to Ask Aces i When he was taken all the way ‘to four, however, it occurred to him that he had not shown the full value ef his hand. Hence his idecision to ask for aces. | Against the final contract of | [#ix hearts, West opened the four | lof spades which was taken in the [closed hand with the king. South’ led a small heart and West went Hn with the ace, spade and South's queen won South then led a heart to dummy's king, clearing the trump (1711 Sa | Looking the hand over, South saw that he, had three winners in. spades, four in hearts, three in clubs and one in diamonds, 11 in all. He started worrying a little. He spent a few moments trying to figure out how he could accuse North of overbidding On second thought he decided that if he went down one, he| wouldn't bring up the subject of overbidding at all He would blame the set on bad breaks and? try to get the next hand going as

rather plaintively that his one New Year's wish is a balanced budget in his own household, is now knee-deep in preparations for the wedding Jan. 26 of his daughter, Drucie, to Maj. John Horton. This wedding is the next great event on Washington's social calendar; bétween now and then, such hostesses and guests as are not lucky enough to be going south to recuperate will be attempting to recuperate here, and holding post-mortems on the busy holiday and debut season, The debut season was “busier, and had more and lower strapless gowns, and kept later hours than any within recent memory, but ‘the dear little girls are back at college now, to get some rest, with great, liver-colored eircies under their baby blue eyes:

Principal Debs One of the most popular debutantes was Betsy Goodloe Porter, a round and bubbly child who 1s ‘the daughter of former OPA Administrator and Mrs, Paul Porter. The two debutantes who were officially the most important were Marjorie

dean of the diplomatic “corps, Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, and Stivig Nabucco, the smatt brunet niece of the Brazilian envoy, Mauricio Nabuco Silvia unconsciously insulted the entire Arthur Murray and Fred Astaire chains, plus every

self-satisfied, hip-happy, bone- [Quickly as possible. breaking American male, when Sees Way to Make It she swung into a rhumba at one | Ag these thoughts flitted party with Cmdr, William through declarer’s mind, the other|

Hudgins, USN, “My,” she sald admiringly “you didn’t learn to rhumba In the United States!” Mr. Hudgins, who learned the dance in Rio de Janeiro during the war, beamed as Silvia continued, “Nobody rhumbas so well unless he learned in a Lal-

players assumed he was planning | how to play the remainder of the hand And he finally did get! around to that. He figured that if West had at least four spades and the king of diamonds, the hand could be made Accordingly, he led the ace of] spades from dummy and parked|

in country.” one of his small diamonds, He Er HU WC ey cashed the queen and 10 of] Alpha Chi Mothers hearts, on which West threw two| diamonds, Three rounds of cluba|

Club Sets Luncheon

came next, ending in the closed|

Members of the Alpha Chi band. Then South played his| Omega Borority Mothers Club of last heart and West was fixed. | Butler University will hold a 1 He was down'to the king-jack|

of diamonds and the 10 of spades. | If he threw the spade, dummy 8| six spot would become a winner. | So he dropped the jack of dia-| monds, hoping East. had the queen of of diamonds.

Mothers Club Plans

Parcel Post Sale - A parcel post sale will be held by the Butler University Delta] Tau Delta Fraternity Mothers|

Club at 7:30 p. m. Friday in the The Private Duty Section of chapter house, 423 W. 46th 8t.| the Central District will hold a Members and guests will attend. Elmer Kreuger will present a imotion picture on South America. . Mrs. J. F. O'Mahoney, chairman, will be will be assisted by Mesdames Carl Hee E. W. Rohr and D. A. A social hour will follow

p.m. luncheon meeting tomorrow, It will be in. the chapter house, 725 W. Hampton Drive, Luncheon will be served by Mesdames Ethel E, Minney, C. R Maxam, James IL. Pedlow and Clare Isaacs, Edmund Schild pecht will speak on “Modern Art”

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