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demanding: "When's it going to
start, Grandma? What's taking
so long?"
! 'Ticia, wearing a bright blue
coat and slacks and red velve-
teen hat, sat composedly in her
Uncle Donald's lap and seemed
in no hurry for the show to be-
gin.
! Both waved gaily at their
mother when she entered with
other top official wives.
! The chief women in yesterdays
drama-Mrs. Eisenhower, Mrs.
Truman, Mrs. Nixon. Mrs. Bark
ley and Margaret Truman ar
rived IN a body just before noon.
and filed to the front row of
seats on the Presidents right.
Mrs. Doud, who had come in ear
lier with the Eisenhower rela-
tives. occupied the sixth seat in
the front row, and the remain
ing seat eventually was occupied
by outgoing Vice President Bark
ley, who came into the stand
just behind President Truman. a
few minutes before incoming
President Eisenhower arrived.
Mrs. Eisenhower wore a new
light gray suit and small-brim-
med gray felt hat. the latter all
most exactly matching the color
Of the famous bangs. With them
she wore a mink coat, gray
gloves, a large black purse and a
huge corsage of white orchids
with purple centers.
Mrs. Truman wore a blue dress.
black Persian lamb jacket and
small white hat. Margaret Tru-
man chose a full-length fitted
nubby light-brown coat and
small black brimmed hat. She
carried a small bouquet OF red
roses.
Mrs. Nixon wore an oxford
gray suit. winter white felt hat
and fitted black cloth coat with
Persian lamb trim. Mrs. Bark
ley was all in black except for a
pink brim on her hat and one
pink rose curling toward the
left side of her face.
The five women spent a busy
time waving greetings to friends
and relatives in the surrounding
stands.
Other notables in the presi-
Dental stand were Mrs. Oveta
Culp Hobby, scheduled to be the
new Federal Security Admins
trator-very chic in a grey fan
mel coat trimmed with black
braid and Spanish type black
hat with black braid: Mrs. Clare
Boothe Luce-strikingly pretty
in a small ridged red cloche,
black suit. mink jacket. pink
scarf and red rose; Mrs. Fred M.
Vinson, wife of the Chief Justice.
all in black; and Mrs. Styles
Bridges, wife of the Senate's
President protein, in black ex-
cept for an aqua velveteen hat.
The members of the Senate
and House and State Governors
had filed into their appointed
places in the surrounding stands
just before the top women took
their places. Senator Robert A.
Taft, who had hoped to occupy
the chief role in yesterdays
drama, led in his colleagues.
Mrs. Taft watched the cere-
mony from her wheel chair in
front of the press section just
below the Presidents stand. She
was wearing a mink coat and
fuchsia hat, and had a plaid
blanket over her lap.
Mrs. Margaret Chase Smith.
the Senate's only woman mem
ber, wore her usual signature
one red rose-with a medium
blue dress and short mink jac-
ket. AS usual, her attractive
silver hair was uncovered.
Governors James F. Brynes of
South Carolina and Earl War
rem of California, a Democrat
and a Republican for Eisen-
hover, led the procession of gov
ernorS down the center steps to
their places behind the presi-
dental box.
Gov. Warren was the most
sartorially elegant of all the
governors glimpsed. He stopped
short of top hat, but he wore
the striped grey trousers and
long swallow-tailed moring coat
which in the past have been
almost uniform" on such oc-
casionS.
The Ambassadors and Minis
ters from rs countries filed into
their places behind the presi-
Dental stand right after Mrs.
Eisenhower and the other women
were seated.
Next came the Justices Of the
Supreme Court in their official
robes. All wore subdued gray or
black ties except Associate JUS
tice William o. Douglas, who
sported a maroon one.
Mrs. John Foster Dulles, wife
of the Secretary of State-desig-
nate. wore a mink coat and black
hat. Mrs. Charles E. Wilson,
wife of the Secretary of Defense
designate. also wore mink, while
her black hat was trimmed in
pink. Mrs. Douglas Mckay, wife
of the Secretary of the Interior