Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-01
YOURS
Hundreds Received
By NiXons ut Club
BY BETTY BEALE

Vice President and Mrs.
Nixon. who are still going
strong and will continue to do
so until their departure Thurs
day for Florida, received over
600 people yesterday.
Thanked by Mrs. John j. Will
liams. president of the Con-
gressional Club, and Senator
Williams, the Nixons shook
hands from A to $50 at the
clubs annual reception in their
honor. Just as they were about
to break up the line Mrs. Rob-
ert Low Bacon arrived. Then
House Doorkeeper "Fishbait"
Miller announced jubilantly
that the 600th guest was there,
Representative Marguerite
Church. Obviously Fishbait
likes round numbers.
Still looking a little peaked
from his recent illness and ex-
tensive African air Safari, the
Vice President will take a brief
but honest-to-goodness vaca-
ton when he and his wife fly
down to the vicinity of Miami
on the 4th. Mrs. Nixon. who
started out thin and came back
thinner from Africa, could also
use some rest.
But it's doubtful that she
knows how to relax. The very
day she got back from the ex-
hausting $4,000 mile tour Of
Africa and long ocean fight,
she cooked dinner for her
family. after first whipping
over to their old house to COL
lect some pots and pans to use
in the new one. The young
Nixon girls had promptly an
nounced that they had missed
Mons cooking, so she obliged
A less ambitious mother would
have sent the car to the near
est delicatessen for that first
meal home.
Free Kittens
Their new house will shortly
bear a sign. Free Kittens. :"
said Mr.. Nixon. When the
small feline fry, born during
their absence. are big enough
to fend for themselves, they'll
be dispensed among the purr-
loving neighbors. This is not
only an advisable step. it's
an absolute necessity because
jules cat. said the v. P. is
about to produce, too.
Mrs. Nixon said the friend
who worked so hard to get
her new house ready while she
was away was Mrs. Vic john
son. She saw to it that the
paint was the color Pat want
ed, the new furniture placed
properly, and so forth. It's
almost finished now except
she has promised to make
curtains for jules room. Her
youngest daughter has, it
seems, always longed for roses
printed on white.
Mrs. Williams wore a green
and blue and white print dress
Yesterday topped by a white
hat entirely covered with tiny
rows of lace. Mrs. Nixon was
IN navy blue with white or
CANDY collar. cuffs. and hat of
white organdy rose petals.
Receiving with them were
other officers of the club and
their husbands: Mrs. Wilbur
Mills of Arkansas. Mrs. WAL
lace Bennett of Utah, Mrs.
Michael Feighan of Ohio.
Mrs. Walter Koran of WASH
ington. Mrs. L. H. Fountain of
North Carolina. Mrs. j. Arthur
Younger of California. Mrs.
Paul C. Jones OF Mississippi
and Mrs. Clifford McIntire of
Maine.
Senator and Mrs. Strom
Thurmond were the first to
greet newcomers as they
stepped inside the club door.
Mrs. J. Allen Frear, chairman
Of the party. also had the as
sistance of her senatorial
spouse.
Perle Mesta's much-rumored
beau. DR.. Philip Lovelace OF
Albuquerque, N. Mex. came
with Senator and Mrs. Gin
ton Anderson. DR.. Lovelace,
who saw the TV story of Mrs.
Mesta's life. but couldn't iden-
tify the designing Philip Cald-
well in the show, said, Il
didn't know until I saw the
play that there was another
man in her life"
"ClOse to the Chest"
The newly appointed Dep
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