The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-12-11

BY JANE EADS
WASHINGTON -- The handsome
Hurleys are back in the Capital.
cutting a swath as usual.
Tall, straight backed Maj Gen.
Patrick ]. Hurley and his equally
tall and very beautiful wife, always
acclaimed the best looking couple
in town, came from their home in
Santa re, N. NJ, to see their 10th
grandehiid, Leslie. The little lady
is the first child Of their daughter,
Mary Hope White and Capt. Edwin
Borden White Jr., y. S. NJ. c.
Daughter Ruth, now Mrs. David
II. Hughes, has four children, Pat
ricia, now Mrs. DeFoFest Ray
mond Lawrence Of California, has
three. Son wilson Patrick Hurley
a lawyer in New Mexico, has two
The one-time secretary Of war
and former ambassador and Mrs,
Hurley leased their Massachusetts
avenue residence to the Argentine
Ambassador TO the Organization
of American States.
| still remember a story the pic
tufesque and adventuresome Pa
Hurley once told me about biz
house in New Mexico.
THE entrance way to the h0usG
is so narrow he related, "the dol
can't wag his tail. He just had Il
hold it straight up until he get
inside.
Before Gen. Mark w. Clark take
up his new post in March as pre-
Sident of the Citadel, Charleston
s. c., military school, he and Mrs
Clark will be shaving over hot type
writer's, working on books in thei
home IN San Francisco. The gen
eral says he expects to finish hi
second book on world conditions
Mrs. Clark says she's hoping h
put on paper things she's had i
her head and heart for some time
"Propably no one will read il
but it's something I've Away
wanted to do" she told friend
at a farewell party marking tn,
generals retirement after 36 year
of active duty.
Handsome Mrs. Lawrence WooC
Robert, wife of "Chip" Robert, for
mer treasurer Of the Democratic
National Committee, is the only
woman | know who can wear rid
ing clothes TO Washington's elit'
parties and get away with it.
Of course no one looks so well In
riding clothes, or wears them witt
such an air. as the blond and ire
|pressible Evie, who since her
ldebutante days has been a head
liner in Capital society news. Tall
cool and beautiful, the daughter Of
a conservative old-line Washington
dowa ger, she has q fair for flauut
ing the social customs of the town
- and people are amused.
She once gave a birthday party
for her horse, and of course ever,
body showed up - with presents
yet. She once rode an elephan'
in a circus and boasts about being
kicked out Of every school she
ever enrolled In. Now she insists
on having her pretty daughter,
Bernie. IA, stay in. and has her
tightly enrolled in one of the best
and most exclusive schools around
here.
Evie was one Of a group Of hon
lored ladies sitting at the celebrity
table" at the weekly fashion lun
cheon given by Mrs. Gladstone
Williams. Others, besides myself
include Nine. Munthe de Morgens
tierne. wife of the Norwegian am
bassador, who Is dean Of Washin
tons diplomatic corps and Nine
Harvard Lange. wife of the Norwe
gian foreign minister, who is chic
Norwegian delegate to the U. N
assembly.
It was Nine. Lange's first Am
erican fashion show, and she OBJ
served that 1t compared favorahly
with many she has seen in Paris
Neither Of these stately very fem
inine ladies liked the trousered cos.
tunes shown for home entertaining
though they both said they wished
they had tiny waistlines like te