The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-17
U. s. Envoy To Bulgaria Always Craved Excitement, " Says Wife
RY NEA Service)

l HaVer1OrQ, Penn-IlarulB uca0- lines put wars spotlight on Bulgaria and also serve to recall, to those who know him, that one of Penn sylvania's most colorful sons is U. s. Minister to that Balkan hotspot. He is George Hubert Earle, III, who, his wife says, always craved ex- citement.
 It is significant that widespread credence was given to story that recently went the rounds in Washington that George Earle had won an emerald ring from King Boris in pinban game. The Bulgarian legation denied 1t ve- hemently, - but to many others it seemed quite in character with MT. Earle, not the king.
 Mrs. Earle admitted here in Haverford the other day that her husband HAD taken a pinball ma chine abroad-though she doubted he had played it with the king. But then Mrs. Earle is noted for her sense of humor. She has the emerald ring.
 A one-time First Lady of Penn Sylvania. Mrs. Earle is slim attractive woman in her early forties, with 8 carefully -groomed appearance. It's hard to believe that she's the mother of four sons two of them over 21.
 LIFE WITH GEORGE
 NOT A DULL MOMENT
 When she married the present Minister over 25 years ago, he was in line to inherit a large for of Pennsylvania's few first-rate play boys. The reputation he only began to outgrow towards middle age, when he took a sudden interest in politics and was named ambas- sador to Austria. Later he became the states first Democratic governor in half a century.
 Even now, Mrs. Earle indicates, life with George Earle keeps her on her toes. During his term as governor he became almost as well-known in Pennsylvania for plane crackups as the Prince of Wales was for falls from horses decade ago.
 Last winter, when Earle was ap- pointed to the Bulgarian post, after an unsuccessful try at Jim Davis's seat in the Senate, his wife and three of his sons accompanied him abroad.
 "In spite of blackouts," says Mrs. Earle, "there was great deal of festivity and party-going in Sofia Bulgarian capitaD, which, inciden- tally, happens to be very beauti- ful, gay and sophisticated city" It has also, by the way, been called 'the hotSpot of the Balkans" since Hitler started considering it is corridor for an offensive in the southeast.
 EARLES LIKE
 EXCITEMENT
 As Mrs. Earle tells it, how the U. s. drew its handsome headquar- ters in Sofia is stosy in itself. It seems that the building was first offered to the French. But because it faced the rear of an equestrian statue of Tzar Alexander II of Rus sia, they refused it, feeling it was an insult to their national pride. With no such eSthetic SenSitivity, the U. s. legation and recently the EarleS have been occupying it ever since.
 SHE'D LIKE
 TO GO BACK
 Last May the State Department I ordered families of U. s. diplomats including the Earles-to come home. And so Mrs. Earle, who likes excitement as well as her husband, and wants to be near him anyway, had to come back to her comfort able old Victorian house in Haver- ford.
 1T don't hear from George reg ularly," she complains. "Commun- ication is SO difficult and not really satisfactory. I do wish they'd let me go back to Sofia. Only then would I feel really comfortable about how George is getting along"