Evening star., 1951-04-12
Vcisstudes Recalled as Georgetown Marks 200 Anniversary

became a matter of congressional
concern.
1t was bound to happen with
such an influx of liberals. Some
of the restoration became a bit
radical. Instead of the approved
Mayfair Georgian vine-clad brick
walls and with 18th Century door,
ways, some of the new fronts were
frankly modern.
Wolcott Clark Waggaman. a
daring young architect known as
"Doggie" by his intimates, pro-
duced a modern front in Twenty
eighth street in the early 30s. The
restorationists screamed in pro-
test but there was nothing they
could do about it. Later, Joseph
Alsop built a modern house in
Georgetown and sold a piece to
the Saturday Evening Post on the
temerity of his venture.
The new residents were not alls
New Dealers. Senator Millard
Tydings, one of the intended vic
TINS of the Corcoran purge, bought
a house at 1921 N street.
Social Register Extension.
BY the time the Roosevelt ad-
ministration had stated itself for
World War II the Georgetown
roster started to look like an ex-
tension of the New York Social
Register with Harrimans and
Whitneys and Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam A. M. Burden and Mrs. Helen
Morgan Hamilton Woods Ca
granddaughter of j. P. Morgan) in
residence. The war also brought
such New York figures as James
V. Forrestal and Maj. Gen. Will
liam j. Donovan to Georgetown.
Two governors of large States
recently lived in Georgetown. Gov.
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, owned
house at 1900 N street when he
was an assistant to the Secretary
of the Navy. Gov. G. MennenI
Williams Of Michigan, lived in.
Georgetown when he was with the
Justice Department.
A check of Georgetown street by
street turns up more interesting
names, such as Miss Jessie FIRE.
mont, great granddaughter of the
first Republican candidate for the.
presidency, and Miss Myrna 10y
formerly of Hollywood and now
busy with U. Ms UNESCO.
A list of Georgetown residents
would be conspicuously incomplete
without mention of George Preston
Marshall and his wife Corrine
Griffith. author of Hail to the
Redskins"
A check of the Congressional
Directory reveals that Georgetown
today is the home of Senators
Robert A. Taft, Henry Cabot Lodge
and Ralph E. Flanders and Rep
resentatives Christian A. Herter,
John F. Kennedy, Jacob K. Javits,
Robert Hale, Charles P. Nelson,
Brooke Hays, Kenneth B. Keating,
Henry M. Jackson, Albert M. Cole,
William M. Colmer, Gerald r.
Ford, jr.. Richard B. Wiggles-
worth and James w. Wadsworth.
Bit of Literary Tone.
In the old days Mrs. E. D. E. N.
Southworth, who wrote almost 100
novels, gave Georgetown a bit of
literary tone by her residence
there. Elinor Glyn of Three
Weeks fame owned a house there
Many professional writer's live
there today, most of them ink
stained toilers of the Fourth
Estate newspaper people,.
! Among them are Doris Fleeson,
Jane Eads. Drew Pearson, Robert
S. Allen. Harold Hinton, James
Minifie, Ruth Montgomery, Lud-
we'll Denny, Henry Pringle. Rich
ard Harkness, Al Friendly and the
AlSop brothers.
Georgetown S writer's were called
upon to volunteer for the bicen-
tennary and they turned out a
creditable booklet that tells the
Georgetown story and tells it we'll
Among the contributors were Dun
can Enrich of the Library of Con-
greSs, Irving D. Foos, 1t. Col. Pen
dleton Hogan. J. B. Wyckoff.
Stephen Dorsey, Eva Hinton and
Ellen Anderson. The booklet is
priced at 81 and is on sale at most
bookshops. Proceeds will go to st.