The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-09

IdNe 4eC tlic JSS be confined to those limits, and it has been all organized with the efficiency of military general staff planning at its best.
 Never has any city strewn rose petals and welcome around with such profusion. It hasn't been pos sible to use half the hospitality offered. Every hostess in the whole bay area wanted to get in on the entertaining, but the FBI and the State Departments protocol boys told the hospitality committee that they would be held strictly account able for the welfare of their visit ing delegate guests and would there fore have to make sure trey didn't get mixed up with anything but the right people.
 The more masculine forms of en- tertainment like deep-sea fishing, tennis, golf, yachting and other sports were taken over by the mems clubs, while the good ladies of the state Womens Voluntary Services took over the strictly social ends. As kind of social game wardens' protective association. a committee of nine matrons, headed by Mrs. Jerd Sullivan, was formed to aid the hostesses and steer the delegates through the rip tides of bay area society.
 A master file was set up in Bar racks F. temporary structure in the civic center area where confer ence sessions are held
 There form was made out for every would-be hostess. Name Town house or country house. Daughters if any and age of each. Swimming pool. horses or other social assets. Kinds of guests preferred. Foreign languages spoken by family. Maxi mum guest capacity and when and how often willing to entertain. To simplify operations, types of enter taining were limited to five - luncheons, teas, cocktails, dinners and week ends.
 When the committee got through making the master file, they found they had 400 good bets. So if San Francisco never had a 400 before it has one now They're not all Social Register, and the native son yard stick was not used. either. Just good families fit for the delegates to know socially
 The State Department, to make the necessary introductions, assign ed protocol smoothie to each dele gation to act as Haison officer be- tween the guests and Mrs. Sulll- vans committee. Two women from this commite were assigned to each of the principal hotels where dele gates were quartered - Fairmount, Mark Hopkins, St. Francis and Sir booking and dating.
 These ladies were all born and finished and came out here, and have lived here all their lives. With the help of the liaison officers they are therefore in good position to know who's who in the bay area and can protect the delegates from hostesses known to have two round limit, or vice versa in case dlly OI lAlc $ SuSSto iiI4SllI otNClOp u4I - suspected proclivities. The whole thing, you see, had to be conducted on a high moral and ethical plane
 When a party gets cleared through the master file in Barracks F without conflict - Mrs. X having sufficient gasoline and red points or fish to entertain four South Afri- cans, three F'renchmen and couple of Bolivians who wish to be feted over the weekend - invitations are issued on cards bearing the crest Of the, hospitality committee, so the guests will know they're not being asked to some clip joint
 The hostess then calls up the State Department protocol officer who works out the seating arrange ment and there you have party which doesn't break mourning rules