Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-20

Anybody who survived the
week that included the Ma
tons editors and Fidel Cas-
tro has a good chance to live
through the OARS and the
ice, AFA and c Of CT Tin
ternational Chamber Of
Commerce. American Fed
Grafton Of Arts, and Con-
gress Of Cultural Leaders,
this week.
The American Society Of
Newspaper Editors wound up
In such a blaze OF glory
they're probably still sim
mering. The Hall Syndicate
party that followed their
final dinner at the Statler
Saturday night drew 1000
guests to Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Halls reception and
cabaret starring bubbling,
big-eyed Carol Claiming.
They weren't all editors,
but this "nightcap" to the
convention has so grown in
fame that everybody and his
brother wanted to get in.
Carol held the rapt atten-
ton of her audience. espec-
tally with her hilarious take
of Of Tallulah Bankhead
singing Happy Birthday" to
outgoin g ASNE President
George w. Healy, jr. Taboo
having made one of her un-
inhibited appearances here
early last week, it was all the
more amusing,
After singing Diamonds
Are a Girls Best Friend"
and tossing quantities of that
lice" into the audience,
Carol noted how helpful the
Gabor sisters had been. She
Just sings the song. she
said, but they really do the
vorkl
She wound up by pinning
a diamond" stickpin on Sem
ator Ken Keating's lapel. On
the heels of being introduced
at the Women's National
Press Club dinner Thursday
night as kissing Ken" Keat-
ing. he may never live it
down.
SENATOR AND MRS.
GEORGE SMATHERS, Sem
ator and Mrs. Albert Gore
and Senator and Mrs. Bill
Proxmire were at the gay,
dancing syndicate party that
eventually was graduated to
an upstairs suite and lasted
until $3.50 in the morning!
Vice President and Mrs.
Nixon stayed at the recep-
ton part of the. TODD for
about an hour. Congratulated
on his answers to the ques-
tons tossed at him at din
ner and on his ability to
think on his feet, Dick Nixon
expressed concern over the
length of some of his replies.
When you get tired, you
know. you lose your terminal
facilities" explained the
v. p, who had put in a fan
tastically fatiguing week. But
he was brevity itself COM
pared to Fidel.
Even Pat, who, however,
looked extremely pretty in a
beautiful light cocoa lace
dress, admitted for the first
time that she was a weary
woman. While her husband
talked with publisher Jack
Knight, she seized the OPP
portunity of sitting down and
chatting with Mrs. Knight.
And next week." she said,
lis even worse. It's a real
diller."
Pogo's creator Walt Kelly,
Broadway columnists Earl
Wilson and Leonard Lyons,
feminine financial wizard
Sylvia Porter, Frank Adams,
creator of "Dayshift;;" AL
fred Andriola, who draws
Kerry Drake, and scientist
AthelStan Spilhaus and Carl
Rose, who produce "Our New
Age" were among the more
individualistic types scat
tered through the throng.
Mr.. Spilhaus. science ad-
wiser to the Defense Depart
ment, once drove a car from
Capetown to Cairo in the
days when there were few
roads to drive on and fire.
quently only cannibals to
camp with.
Pogo's papa, the ebullient
Walt, drew his favorite char
acter for yours truly on a
Statler table cloth but luck
lily for Mr.. Hilton ! couldn't
find a razor to cut it out
with. BY now it's all come
out with the wash.
So, no doubt, has some of
that close harmony that was
heard during the small hours
Of the morning.
George Healy said that
next year the ASNE conven-
ton will be held in New Or
leans. All l can say is, those
LouiSianians had better start
eating their Wheaties now.
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