Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1950 — Page 12
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Cherry Blossoms Bring-Rush of Visitors
-And Diplomats Cavort at Fancy Parties By OLAND D. RUSSELL, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Apr. 15—Springtime in Washington The town's just dripping in
is as nice as all get out. beauty and hospitality.
It's the time of year when the sap runs in Con-
gressmen, moving them to Congressional Record. It's the time of year when 30,000 visitors come to town to take a- gander at the cherry blossoms. It's the time when diplomats cavort like mad and parties blossom like daffodils, Elephant fanciers are getting: a mammoth kick already out of the party that's goifig” to be given by Col. and Mrs. Unni Nayar of the Indian Embassy. They, are serving cocktails to celebrate the safe arrival in this country of Ashok and Shanti, a couple of jumbos which Prime Minister Nehru of India has given to the Washington Zoo. A roast suckling pig was added to the usual turkey and Virginia ham when Mr. and Mrs. John Shields.held open house on Easter 15ay ilong the lines of a blowout in czarist Russia. Everybody was exclaiming things like “zit!” and “Hola!” over the paska. Paska is made out of cottage chéese, flaked with citron, candied cherries and nuts. Another tidbit was kouletch, a gtovepipe loaf of rich honey-golden bread topped with white icing Mrs. Shields is the former Princess Tatiana Abkhazi of Russia.
- " » ECLAT stood out all over as Mr. and Mrs. Corneal Mack gave their. . traditional Easter Day brunch at the Mayflower. Politics = ard international woes were thrust to one side as sotons, diplomats and a sprinkling of hoi polloi sat down & gab over whisky sours while nibbling at finnan haddie in cream, corned beef hash, sauTURAgeS | and eggs, shad roe and bacon, hot corn bread, all served from fabulous tables decked with masses of blossoming cherry ‘branches. Mme. there, Justice and Mrs. Stanley reed, Attorney General and Mrs, Howard McGrath, the Navy Secretary and Mrs. Francis P. Matthews, Sen, and Mrs. Owen Brewster—to name just a few-—all vowing it was the happiest Easter they'd ever heard of. Still other Easter breakfast
and peach and pear
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President Truman was on hand and personally made the presentations when the club held its annual stunt party and dinner at the Statler tonight. Congressmen’ and social leaders as well as a slice of the diplomatic and press corps attend these affairs, a feature of which are the skits put on by club members containHIE some Well-atmied™ political” barbs. The six award winners are Olivia de Havilland, the cinema actress, who recently won her second movie Oscar; Claire McCardell, New York fashion designer; Dorothy Fosdick of the State Department; ham, Pearl
Wanamaker, super-
intendent of public instruction for | the state of Washington, and Mil- |
dred Rebstock of Detroit, the scientist, who is honored for synthesizing c¢hloromycetin, ‘one of the “big four” antibiotics. Miss Fosdick, daughter of the New York clergyman, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, is being cited for outstanding service in government. She is the only woman member of- the policy planning staff of the State Department. a #
} WIVES DON'T win. aH the arguments he reabouts — at least, that's thé Way we hear it from the Gordon Gray household. The retiring Sec Tetary of the Army, who is scheduled to become the)
next president of the University
‘D. R.
Minister Perle Mesta was
guests-—those of Mrs. Joseph De.
Ganahl-—were feasting on sourdough pancakes made from an Alaskan recipe which requires that the same batter be kept “working” for years and handed down from one generation to an-| other. A cast of curvilinear wives of! the Army's Signal Corps officers’ will dance the can-can as a spe-| cialty number whén their organization gives a whoop-to-do for the benefit of Soldiers, Sail-| ors, Marines and Airmen's Club here. The Ft. Myer, Va. gymnasium will be fixed up to look like a country barn and the 2000 guests expected will make like they are hill-billies and hicks, taking part in square dances and such.
~ ~ ~ i THE WOMEN'S National Press Club, which is headed by —Jane-Stafford- of Science Service; has its own form of Oscars pre-| sented annually as achievement! awards to outstanding American | women.
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| Poets Bloom With Daffodils
dancer Martha Gra-|
of North Carolina, ‘says if’ Mre.to train a women
regiment of Gray had her way they'd have commandos next month at GOP| stayed on in Washington for the headquarters here to go out and
fight Democrats—catch-as-catch-{can in the coming election campaign. | Groups ‘of 25 at a time will | be given intensive three-day | courses in how to slip up behind Democrats and disarm theron current political issues.
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[rest of their lives, " Incidentally, Mr. Gray's discovered that he’s not entitled to the term so frequently applied to him—“the boy president of NCU.” Although he’s | only 40, he’s recently learned that at least six of his predecessors were under 40 when they | took over the job. Only three, where Mrs. Farrington works is in fact, have been. older. sprinkled ‘with rampant elephants| Officially Mr. Gray's the 10th to represent the thundering herd resident of the university. Actu- Which the Republicans are going! ally he's the 13th, but he explains|to be, come Slection time. it: “There were a couple of car-| ” petbagger ‘custodians’ after the! THEY'RE STILL tittering | War Between the States, but we about the Washington hostess don’t ‘count 'em. We don’t even Who had some friends for nal try|
‘hang. their.picturés on. the wall" lunch including girls. She told her own two small
- =” - RUBBERNECK “busses will daughters to take the other two! meander along Embassy Row on and go upstairs-and play dress-up Apr. 22 carrying sightseers on with some of her old clothes. When the four children came | down some time later to parade | in front of the ggown-ups, each | of them was wearing, on the outside of her dress, a pair of falsies. Everybody har-harred, including the hostess who now tells the joke on herself. Secretary of the Navy Mat-| thews cranked up his yacht Se. | quoia—the likes of which he never had back in-Omaha-—and hosted] ~~ 'a nautical dinner party for Ad- ~_ 2" miral of the Fleet, Lord Fraser of North Cape, First Sea Lord of the British Navy, who was re-. cently in town,
Dinner was served ®*as the Se-
the annual tour sponsored by the Goodwill Guild. Visitors will be wander inside at
permitted to least five
othef half lives. These are the in the gold and blue twilight of embassies of Iran, Greece, Egypt/a lovely spring day and the: 15 and Brazil and the Legation of| guests played like they were in, Luxembourg. technicolor. The chief of naval| Mrs. Joseph R. Farrington, operations, * Admiral Forrest P.| president of the National Federa- Sherman was taken along to heip tion of Women’s Clubs, is going steer.
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