Evening star., 1950-04-26
Society News
Mrs. BorkIey Presides at Luncheon;
Mrs. Truman Unable to Attend Fete
By Katherine M. Brooks


and Mrs. Max ORell Truitt,
daughter of Vice President Bark
ley. were also guests at the affair.
Corners of the Senate Caucus
room were filled with palms and
ferns and the center table was
covered with a pale green organdy
cloth and had a center bouquet
of white carnations, phlox and
yellow snapdragons. Smaller
tables surrounded the head table
and had similar flowers in the
center. Mr.. William A. Frederick
and Mr.. David C. Grillbortzen of
the Botanical Gardens, assisted
Mrs. Estes Kefauver and Mrs.
Lister Hill, who we're co-chairmen
of decorations for the luncheon.
Mrs. Andrew F. Shoeppel and
Mrs. j. William Fulbright were
co-chairmen of the committee in
charge of arrangements for the
luncheon. Others on their COM
mittee were Mrs. Tom Connally,
Mrs. Ebert D. Thomas, Mrs.
William LANCER, Mrs. Leverett Sal
tonstall. Mrs. John j. Williams,
Mrs. Gillette. Mrs. William E.
Jenner, Mrs. Robert c. Hendrick-
son, Mrs. Kefauver and Mrs. Rob-
ert S. Kerr.
The menu served yesterday
included tomato juice with cheese
waters, baked ham with currant
jelly and spiced apricots, and roast
turkey with cranberry jelly and
orange slices: avocado aspic. celery
stuffed with roquefort cheese,
olives, rolls and beverages. The
dessert was French fruit tartS
served with bon-bons and nuts.
The unusual favor at each place
was designed and sent by woman
in Wichita, Kansas to one of the
members. They we're white boxes
with gold lettering and corsage
bouquets Of single heads of
bearded wheat tied with ribbons
in the Kansas colors of blue and
gold. The boxes were filled with
Wichita tea cakes.
At one side of the room an in
teresting display of the work done
during the year attracted much
attention even for those who
have part in the accomplishment.
Engagements
Mrs. Truman is allowing herself
time to recuperate from her in
disposition and among the first
engagements she is expected to
keep will be the tea which Mrs.
William Boyle will give Monday
at the Shoreham. The following
few days will be busy ones for the
Presidents wife.
Miss Margaret Truman will
come from New York Tuesday
and plans to be with her parents
at Blair House for several days.
She will come to attend the din
ner which the President and Mrs.
Truman will give Tuesday for the
United States Minister to Luxem-
bourg, Mrs. Perle Mesta. The
dinner is not an official function
and the other guests will be per-
sonal friends of the Minister.
Miss Truman will remain for the
dinner the next day honoring the
Prime Minister of Pakistan and
Begun Liaquat Ali Khan who will
be guests at Blair House over
night.
Miss Truman will accompany
her mother to the reception May
2 from S to 7 o'clock which Asso-
ciate Justice and Mrs. Harold H.
Burton will give at the Congress
sional Club for the United States
representative to the United Ma
tions and Mrs. Warren r. Austin.
The Presidents wife will be hos
tess to the members of the Society
of Sponsors of the United States
Navy Monday afternoon, May 8,
at 5 o'clock. This is an annual
event for the wife Of the Chief
Executive and is a part of the an
nual meeting of the Sponsors.
The organization is composed Of
those who have christened a ship
of the United States Navy.