Evening star., 1952-07-26
Society News:
Sister of Gov. Stevenson
Describes His Personality

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alone in Georgetown.
steaks is a speciality and
he would be sure to include toma-
toes in any meal. because he has
a passion for them, says Mrs. Ives.
He also loves watermelon, slaw and
cherry pies, though not on the
same menu. He goes in for light
lunches-particularly tomato juice
mixed with yogurt, broiled liver or
fish and that slaw again.
The stories that Adlai Stevenson
is lonely man are not true, says
his sister. He loves people and he
likes to entertain frequently in a
small, informal way. Mrs. Herman
D. Smith, wife of the chairman
of the Stevenson for Governor
Committee, says she never has
been down to the Governors
in Springfield that every
guest room wasn't filled.
Adlai Stevenson likes the COM
pany of people and likes to please
his friends. At Christmas time
he lists his friends and what he
wants to get for them and fire.
quently stews quite a bit over the
right selection. He takes the
trouble-even if he has to stay up
nights to do it-of writing out
some two or three hundred per-
sonal Christmas cards to closest
friends and members of his work.
ing staff.
Fighter for Principle.
He is not a scrapper where per-
sonal fights are concerned, says
his sister, but he will fight for
principles. He must have had a
lot of principles even when young
because his nose was fractured
thrice in fights when a lad. Each
time he did nothing about it and
kept the injury a secret for days.
Like Franklin D. Roosevelt, he
loves trees and knows every one
on his property at nearby Lib
ertyville. His place there is cur
rently rented to the Marshal
Field, jr.'s,. but every time he
comes to Chicago he races out to
look it over.
The Governor, says his devoted
sister, has pronounced ideas about
things, including brightly colored
ties which he likes. He is apt to
wear them, however, with old suits
and old hats. Like most men he
has a hard time parting with
those we'll "broken in" garments.
He has a passion for neatness as
well as promptness and becomes
impatient with people who are not.
He used to ride and golf a lot
but plays only tennis now because
it takes less time. He'll drop
everything for game with any
of his three boys who spend half
their time with him and half with
their mother, the former Ellen
Borden, who was divorced from
the Governor in 1949.
The eldset of the three boys,
Adlai III. %, is the one most apt
to take after his father. He has
always been interested in politics,
but missed the exciting scene in
the convention hall early this
because he joined the
Marines for his service training
two weeks ago and is now sta
toned at ,Quantico. Borden, 19.
who returns to Harvard in the fall,
and John Fell, 16, a student at
Milton Academy, had dinner with
their father last night before the
third ballot when his family re-
ports he was very happy.
Could Be Hostess.
Mrs. Ives, whose opinion, friends
say, he respects great deal, espe-
cially on the subject of women, is
free to come to Washington to
serve as his official hostess. Her
husband retired 10 years ago from
the diplomatic service and they
spend their summers at Blooming
ton, ILL.,, 60 miles from Springfield,
and their winters at Southern
Pines, N. c. They have farm
there, where Mr.. Ives. as hobby,
raises Turkish tobacco never be-
fore grown in this country.
The Ives have one son, Timothy
Read, "a, who is in training now
as a jet pilot at Bryan Field, Tex.
He attended the University of Vir-
ginia for four years and is a
bachelor.
The granddaughter Of Grover
Cleveland's Vice President, Adlai
Stevenson, Mrs. Ives is keenly in
terested in the history of her
country and the State of Illinois.
She has played an active part in
the presentation of the historical
Forever This Land
written by Kermit Hunter. based
on the life of Abraham Lincoln
and now in production at New
Salem, Ill. The granddaughter of
a president general of the D. A. r.,
she also is a member of it and of
the Society of Colonial Danes.
She is a joint owner, with her
brother and cousins, of the Bloom
ington daily newspaper which
Mrs. Ives and the Governor in
herited from their mother. Hence
the paper is Republican as their
mother was a Republican and it
will stay that way because the
cousins, who are more numerous,
are also Republicans. The Cover
nor took his Unitarian fathers
policies and his Presbyterian
mothers religion.