Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1951 — Page 21

. PAGE 22 Potomac Patter—

Clerks, Waiters, Cabbies Take Over Washington Again—There’s War On, Don’cha Know?

Hotel's Officious Help Wrecks Birthday

kal THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ___ - .____ SUNDAY, FEB. 11, 1951

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sn. GEN. AND MRS. IKE EISEN.

’ Some of the newer Congress- and to look at him in the morn- the Senate. But everybody was) typical treatment given freshme

is. flavored with a few hundred | at the Capitol. ‘ . |HOWER staying in a three-room

Herbs just in case the pepper| men. on hand seemed a little awed ing you'd think he was in bed well behaved.

Party of State Department Man's Daughter acesn't make the proper impres- PY this Oriental splendor, out every, night with the chickens. | 4.54.8 "As the last Republican new-|suite at the Hotel Statler , .

By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—There 8 probably no truth to they didn’t burn hardly at as Rep. John Kee of West Virginia en people. The other night at as Economic Stabilization boss, ‘he staysd on in Harrisburg until the report that a Missouri ward-heeler has snagged - the so long as you didn't try to swals | © "0 ey ary La ui x . Te . & 1 ’ oo exclusive rights for streamlined straitjackets, but it could P y happen any day. There's a war on again, and Washington's iniscent to our Congressmen of 8% they waved gaily at ambassi- or.0teq 400 guests in less than the job last October. At least,

gone nuts once more.

None of the big hotels will let you in without a reserva- gorveq in a real Oriental atmos-

tion—and to get a reservation you need to be at least

a vice president and, preferably, related to Mr. Truman's boy, Harry Vaughan. The guys with the red faces, big cigars and brief cases are pack, peddling their gimmicks or bringing their protests, or just trying to find out what the fine print means. In quiet corners of the saloons, the lobbyists are buying drinks again for anybody ev find useful. i the word apparently has gone out to waiters, cab drivers and hotel desk clerks that they can start kicking people around again—there’s a war on. Hive any of these characters any lp. like asking for a fork to eat your goulash with, or a key s0 you can get into your hotel room and you're lucky if you don't tossed out into the street. For example, a State Department man took his family to dinner the other night to celebrate his daughter's 18th birthday. He and his wife had prom: {sed the girl she could have her first drink of wine to mark the event, So, Pop ordered a bottle of wine and three glasses—for himself, wife and daughter. The two other children along, a boy, 5, and a girl, 13, drank milk. The waitress, a typical purse- * Hlipoed, small-town gal from the hills, said they would have to prove the daughter was 18 or no wine. Pop showed his State Department credentials. and sald he'd vouch for her age and so would her mother. Nope, sald the waitress, let's see the birth certificate or no wine. Pop called for the head waitress. She not only backed up her underling, but eyed Pop as if she were viewing a particularly depraved white slaver. Mom and Pop said the hell with it and started to leave. En route, they ran into the manager. The manager told them : he was sorry, but that was the “law. apd the waitress was only = ~to- enforce it. Pop sald

confound it, he'd vouched for his

daughter's age and besides, did they think he was trying to contribute to the delinquency of his own flesh and blood? | The manager wrung his hands’ a few times and then gave up. OK, he told Pop, I'll take your word. But Mom said nuts, let's get out of here. So they resumed their march to the fresh air. But there was the manager, barring their way again. “I'm sorry,” he sald. “But If | you're going, I'll have to ask you to pay for the wine-—it's been opened.” E . » Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio was sitting in his familiar half- | hunch at the Republicans’ box supper the other night, eating a piece of fried chicken. He stared straight ahead and held the chicken with the air of a man attacking an unpleasant chore.

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“I don’t know which looks the more uncomfortable,” cracked a press box wag, “Taft or the chicken.” » s . THE MILITARY in this town is nonpolitical—most of the time. But the other night. the Democratic Club of the District of Columbia gave a reception for the Democrats in Congress. Among those attending were Mrs. Wade Haislip, wife of Gen. Haislip, vice chief of staff of the Army; Mrs. Louis Renfrow, wife of Brig. Gen, Renfrow, Harry Truman’s old World War I dentist and pal; and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway, wife of Lt. Gen. Ridgway, commander of the 8th Army in Korea.

8 ” » THAT SURE WAS a glittering assemblage that turned out for the third anniversary of the country of Ceylon at the Ceylonese . Embassy. Some of the bunch alsq must have glittered internal. ly by the time they waded through some of that red hot + grub served up. ”

2 s Hi'ya, Prince AMBASSADOR G. C. 8. Corea being a guy who believes in set-

ting a good table, had the kitchen staff go all-out for this one. That

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{you can’t nonplus old h ike / y plus old hands ilke| nr. Big also is setting some Alan Valentine, who resigned | ~— =... 0 hig oath of office—| At parties at the Costa Rican em-

|sion. Then there were some job Sen. Owen Brewster of Maine, ow records for shaking hands on request of Harry Truman

|lots of little meat balls as chasers |passy guests are served hot “em-

|and Senate Secretary Les Biffle.'s) Congressional, Club's annual must Jhave Biiiuiniin log be the final day of his gubernatorial paladas”—they're pastry made of hindig for him and Mrs. Tru- around Washington for seme allest suite corn paste and filled cheese. most plussed le in the joint > at g term—he got the smalles peop Joint an. the President and his Missus time when he was appointed to |" "ol 0" eee puilding,. . . Sens. George Alken and

Epos: the while chew: b e / He al ot Ralph Flanders of Vermont are 40 ‘minutes. Then everybody sat he bought a house here which three small rooms. e also got| p upper. the leftovers in committee as- ganging up on a Virginia grocery

low them.. These exotic delicacies, so rem-

the East they'd seen hey 80 many |ing stringhoppers.

meant something called “string colored lights around and the HARRY TRUMAN sure is was Mrs. James Kem, whose PENNSYLVANIA'S Sen. Jim tees.

times — in the movies — were down to a nice little supper. No won't be ready for occupancy ' 8 iF * whisky served. PP until May. signments—the District of Co-|store which they claim is selling phere. There were all sorts of Gadabout Harry Hostess at the Trumans’ table = 2 a lumbia and Post Office commit- a mixture falsely labelled 100 * | per cent pure maple syrup,

e asked the Pure Food and

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