Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-04-08
Presidents Wife
Has Grounded Hours
During Fortnight
By Katharine NJ. Brooks

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Mrs. Truman has a variety of en-
gagements to fill her days through
the coming fortnight. Tomorrow
especially is a full day for both the
Presidents wife and daughter. Miss
Truman will be hostess at luncheon
in honor of Miss Betty Buchanan,
whose marriage to MIR. Stancliff
Churchill Elmore will take place in
June. Miss Truman will be one of
her attendants.
THE Presidents wife and daugh-
ter will be the ranking guests at the
to 8 party which the White House
aides will give tomorrow in the home
|of two of them at 1345 9th street.
Comdr. Jesse Gay of the U.S.S. Will
|liamsburg has charge of the arrange
ments and the guests will number
about a hundred
The second performance of the
Junior League Follies of 1948 to-
morrow evening will be witnessed by
Mrs. Truman and Miss Truman
Last evening they saw the press pre-
view of the film 1.-The State of the
Union" arranged by the White
House Correspondents Association
Mrs. Truman will be hostess at
two teas Tuesday afternoon receiv-
ing some $50 guests at o'clock and
a similar number at o'clock.
The President will be accompanied
by Mrs. Truman to the dinner which
the American Society of Newspaper
Editors will give Saturday evening,
April II, at the Statler Hotel.
Mrs. Humans calendar for the
next two weeks is filled with engage
ments with organizations. Today
at 80 o'clock she received the mem
bers Of Theta Sigma Phi, national
Journalistic sorority, and at 3 o'clock
lis greeting the foreign students in
Washington which has been arrang-
ed through Mrs. Leslie johnson at
the International Students House.
The pages at the Senate and
House will be guests of Mrs. Truman
Saturday at luncheon. The first of
these annual informal festivities was
a picnic on the south lawn of the
Executive Mansion but the party
Saturday will be held indoors.
The ladies who will be here in
connection with the meetings of
the Rotary International will be re-
ceived by Mrs. Truman Monday
afternoon at o'clock. Wednesday
at 5 o'clock the Presidents wife
will receive the Daughters of Found
ers and Patriots of America. The
following day she will be guest of
honor of Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
wife of the president of George
Washington University, at her tea
for Columbian Women. The tea
will be given in the Washington
Club of which the hostess is presi-
dent. Miss Ruby Nevins is presi-
dent Of Columbian Women.
April is considered open season"
for women's conventions and many
of the delegates call at the White
House during their stay in the Capt.
tai. Mrs. Truman will be hostess
to the delegates to the National
Society Of Daughters of Colonial
Wars Friday afternoon, April 16 at
5 o'clock. Mrs. F. B. Buckley, of
Lexington, KY, is national president
of the organization.
The Democratic Women's Ma
tional Council will give its annual
luncheon in honor of the Presi-
dents wife Saturday. April II. at
the MayfoWer.
The forty-nine girls, comprising
the Good Citizenship Pilgrims will
be received by Mrs. Truman Mon
day afternoon, April 49, at 2
o'clock. These young women have
been chosen from the senior classes
in public high schools throughout
the country for dependability, serv-
ice, leadership, and patriotism, and
brought to Washington by the
N.S.D.A.R., which will open its an
nual Continental Congress that day.
Mrs. Truman will receive members
of the Soroptimist Club of Wash
ington at $50 o'clock that after
noon.
The annual luncheon of the Sen
ate Ladies Lunchen Club in honor
of Mrs. Truman will be held Tues