Evening star., 1947-03-20


In their background. The warm
gray of the walls set of the beau
tifuI gold-colored hangings.
A succession Of prominent women
took turns at the tea and coffee
urns In the dining room as guests
surrounded a tempting buffet. Lady
Berendsen, wife of the New zea-
land Minister, poured tea at the
same time Mrs. Andrews, wife OF
the South African Minister, was
pouring coffee, while Mrs. Owen
Brewster served ice cream that was
strategically placed between lus-
cious-looking devils food and cara
mel cakes. During the afternoon
Mrs. Alexander Wiley, Mrs. Eugene
Millikin, Mrs. Bourke B. Hicken-
Iooper, Mrs. Edmond j. Thye, Mrs.
Homer Ferguson and Mrs. John W..
Bricker, who had on lovely hat
encircled in roses, took their places
at the tea table.
The fact that Senator Martin
was a major general in the last war
may have had something to do with
the number of high military pres
ent. Gen. and Mrs. Omar Bradley
were there and 1t. Gen. and Mrs.
Wade Hampton Haislip, the Sui
geon General of the Army and Mrs.
Norman T. Kirk and Maj. Gen. and
Mrs. Mention Eddy. Gen. and Mrs.
Carl A. Spaatz chatted with Mr.
and Mrs. Drew Pearson, the latter
looking very chic in black suit
and pink straw hat with delicate
black lace veil.
The Portuguese Ambassador and
Nine. de Bianchi were greeting
friends they had not seen for some
time. They recently returned to
town after some weeks absence
And there was Mr.. Marshall Diggs
introducing Mr.. Arthur Koontz.
national Democratic committeeman
from Charleston, w. Va; Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Dewey having a word
with Miss Marion Martin, Republi-
.can national committeewoman, and
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Luther
Sheldon, jr., and Mrs. w. Chapln
Huntington involved in a three
cornered conversation in the library.
Mrs. Fred A. Muhlenberg, wife OF
the new Representative from Penn
svlyania, who was named after his
ancestor, the first Speaker OF the
House, said that this was one OF
her first Capital parties-she's only
been in town a month. Yesterday
she saw Mrs. William E. Borah,
Mrs. Guy Despard Golf, who came
with her daughter, Mrs. Carroll
Reece. Mrs. Wiley Rutledge, Asso-
ciate Justice and Mrs. Harold H.
Burton, arriving late in dinner
clothes, Judge and Mrs. Ernest H.
Van Fossan in the cheerful COM
pany of the Ray Henles, Mrs. Rob-
ert P. Patterson and the Secretary
of the Senate and Mrs. Carl A.
Ioeff1er. The secretary, by the way,
says that he Is the Oldest person,
in point of service. OF any one IN
or about the Senate. He must
know all the angles.
Most effective millinery creation
was the wide-brimmed, of-the-face
yellow straw worn by Mrs. Edward
McGinnis, who was accompanied by
her husband, the sergeant-at-arms
of the Senate. And one OF the
smartest women present was Mrs
A. B. Shattuck, who, as a member
Of Senator Martins staff, Is very
apt to increase his constituency.
Still others present in this con-
genial political gathering were
Mrs. Carroll D. Kearns, the wife
of another Representative from
Pennsylvania; Mrs. McCook Knox,
MIR. John Eager and his very anus
ing wife, Mr.. Edward Flather, Mr..
Fred Britton, Representative Rob-
ert F. Rich, Mr.. and Mrs. Strick-
land Gillian in the midst OF an
interesting audience, Rear Admiral
Emory S. Land, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Marshall, Mrs. Edgar Quayle, Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Henning and two
law students who claimed to be in
at least a quasi-legal state, Mr..
Edwin Pendleton and Mr.. Jack