Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-16
Society News
Society News
The Charles Wilson's
Honor Roger IA. Kyes
Pentogon Is Scene Of Top Brass Dinner
For the Departing Deputy Secretary
By Doisy CIelond

Oy N0iSy
The Deputy Secretary of De- |
Tense and Mrs. Roger M. Kyes
are causing quite a stir around |
toWn-socially that is.
This official couple will leave
Washington around the first of
May and they are being enter
tanned at farewell parties almost
every moment.
Mr.. Kyes' boss, Secretary of
Defense Charles E. Wilson. and
Mrs. Wilson gave a dinner last
evening for the departing couple.
The party was 8. o'clock, black
tie. and took place at the Penta-
gon. There were SO guests
seated at seven tables.
Apartment Too Small
The Wilson's have an apart
ment at the Sheraton-Park Hotel
which is too small to do enter
tanning in on this large scale
and so to the hosts office the
guests went. This was also a re-
turn to their place of work for
most of the male guests.
The guests were greeted in the
Secretary's Office, where cocktails
were served and dinner was in
the conference room adjoining.
Deputy Secretary Kyes is re-
signing from his job and will be
replaced by the present Secretary
of the Navy, Robert B. Anderson.
The Navy post in turn will be
taken on by one of the Assistant |
Secretaries of Defense, Charles |
S. Thomas.
Stevenses Not There
The Secretary of the Army and |
Mrs. Robert Stevens were in
Vited to the dinner but did not |
attend. Secretary Wilson'S office |
gave no explanation for this.
However, it is understood that /
Secretary Stevens asked to be .
excused because of exhaustion
due to his work preparing for the
forthcoming Senate investigating
committee hearing into the dis
pute between the Army and SEN
ator Mccarthy.
The AnderSonS were at the |
dinner last evening as were the
Secretary of the Air Force and
MIS-. Harold E. Talbot, Chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff .
and Mrs Arthur w. Radford,
Army Chief of Staff and Mrs
Matthew B. Ridgway and Chief !
of Naval Operations and Mrs.
Robert B. Carney.
The always chic Mrs. Talbot
again had one of the outstand-
ing dresses of the evening. 1t
was a French designed long
black gown with a large starched
white organdy collar. Secretary
and Mrs. Talbot are hoping to .
get away over the Easter week .
end to visit one of their married !
daughters which would mean
their destination would either be
Philadelphia or Darien, Conn.
Unusual Dress
Mrs. Anderson, whose husband
IS one of the hardest working
officials in town, also had on a
dress that was a conversation
piece. 1t was made of thin pale
green material from the Philip
pines, lined with matching
taffeta.
The Navy Secretary's wife got /
the dress when she and her huS- /
band were on their trip to the
Pacific last fall. She bought the /
material, designed the dress and
had it made almost over night !
in the Philippines.
Other guests at the dinner
were Gen. and Mrs. Thomas D. |
White. Mrs. Nathan Twining. |
wife of the Air Force Chief of
Staff; Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lee
Baron, Gen. G. B. Erskine and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Moore.
Most of the Assistant Secre-
taries of Defense and their
wives were also at the dinner. |
They included the Franklin A.
Floetes. the Wilfred j. McNeils, |
DR.. Frank B. Berry, the Frank
d. NeWburys, the Donald Aubrey
Quarleses, the Charles Thomases, |
the Strive Hensels and Mr.. John
A. Hannah.
Luncheon Hostess
Mrs. Thomas incidently gave
q gay luncheon earlier in the !
week for Mrs. Kyes. The party |
took place at the Chevy Chase
Club and after lunch the ladies
played bridge. One of the winners
of the day was Mrs. Radford
and two of the losers were Mrs. |
Wilson and Mrs. Anderson.
Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. George M. Humphrey were
the only other members of the
Cabinet at the dinner. They left
this morning for their home in
Mentor Ohm uhiph iS met oIlf :