Evening star., 1948-11-14
Service Set
Has Grounded
Social Slate
Visitors Feted
At Parties
By Betty Murphy

+ A busy round of parties is in the
|offng for a visitor from the South,
Mrs. S. S. Boylston. who arrived
yesterday from Columbia, S. c., to
be the guest of Col. and Mrs. E. A.
Routheau. The very first thing
planned in her honor was the cock
tail party her hosts will give today
at their home in Alexandria.
Three more parties are scheduled
for Mrs. Boylston this week, all
Iluncheons, with the guests remain
ing on to play mah-jongg, her favo-
rite game. Mrs. Robert w. Elchel-
berger will entertain her at the
Army and Navy Club tomorrow, Mrs.
Max S. johnson will be her hostess
the next day and Mrs. Charles F.
Thompson's turn will come Wednes-
day. All but Mrs. johnson were
friends of Mrs. Boylston when their
husbands were stationed at Fort
Jackson before the war.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Franklin
Babcock had planned a surprise
party for visitors from the West
Coast, but the visitors, Col. and MIS-.
Jefferson Graves of San Francisco,
have had to postpone coming to
washington. The Babcocks, how
ever, are going on with their plans,
and the cocktail party will be given
Thursday from to o'clock at the
Army and Navy Club.
One of the most popular events on
the Fort McNair Officers Club cal
endar S the Sunday night supper
dance, which is held every other
week, with cocktails at o'clock and
dancing from till 10.
Among those entertaining there
tonight are Col. and Mrs. George w.
Hinman, jr., and 1t. Col. and Mrs.
Walter H. Huntsberry. The Hunts
berrys' guests will include Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. Kester L. Hastings, Col.
and Mrs. Ralph A. Lincoln, 1t. Col.
ard Mrs. Charles P. Crosby, the
Assistant Military Attache of the
/, French Embassy and Nine. Leguay,
Col. and Mrs. Richard Thomas and
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert P. Richardson,
jr., of Reidsville, N. c.
R0binsons to Entertain
Looking ahead on the service cal
> endar, there's the cocktail party
Mai. Gen. and Mrs. Clinton F. Rob-
inson will give Tuesday, November
30, at the Fort McNair officers Club.
The Robinsons, incidentally, will
celebrate their goth wedding ami
: versary next Sunday and 1t. Col.
Lyle A. Brookover, U. S. "A. r., tenn
porarily stationed at the Pentagon,
> will entertain at a dinner Saturday
night in their honor.
Brig. Gen. and, Mrs. Virgil Lee
Peterson are busy moving into an
apartment this week end. They sold
their house on Ellicott street, where
they had lived for the past six years,
. and now are at the wyoming.
: Members of the class of 1915 at
> the United States Military Academy
will meet for dinner Friday at 7
: o'clock in the private dining room
at the Army and Navy Club. Brig.
Gen. John F. Conklin, class secre-
tary, has charge of the arrange
ments.
: The younger set Is looking forward
, to the first of this seasons Junior
Army-Navy cotillions to be held
: Wednesday night at the Fort McNair
Officers Club. This will be the third
, year for the cotillions. which are
: sponsored by the Military Academy
class of 1924.
The very small fry had big
time at the birthday party Comdr.
aid Mrs. John Paul Floyd gave
Thursday for their 4-year-old son,
John Paul Chadwick Floyd. better
known as Chad"
Comdr. Floyd was on hand for his
sons party, but left the next day on
trip to various military installa-
tions throughout the country as the
Navy representative for the civilian
orientation cruise of defense estab-
)ishments.