Evening star., 1960-12-18
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YOURS
Eisenhowers Sending Cards
But Not Their Successors

peting their song upward to
a blue heaven. And so 1t
goes. Even from the MosIem
Legation Of Yemen, the oil
rich country deep in the
Arab peninsula, comes a card
to greet the advent Of Christ.
Il. Such is the power Of
Christmas.
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AN AMUSING AUCTION
Of objets dart and bric-a-
brac, including items donated
by prominent Washingto-
mans, will be held Tuesday
evening in New York at the
Fifth avenue residence Of the
Egidio Ortonas. -. The
Italian Ambassador to the
United Nations and his wife
are holding the very chic to-
do to raise funds for the
Spoletto Festival Of Two
Worlds, which has become the
outstanding Italian summer :.
music festival.
The unique thing about 1t
is that the two great young
composers, Leonard Bern
stein and Gian- Carlo Menot-
tt. are going to be the auc-
tioneers. And when every i,
thing else has been auctioned
on, they will each take turns
auctioning the other one Of
for q four-hour date!
GLADYS TARTIERE, fu-,
ture landlady Of the next
President Of the United
States, led a pleasantly we'll
ordered existence until the
news broke that she had
leased her Middleburg place
to the Jack Kennedys. Since
then she's had so many ques-
tioning calls she doesn't dare
answer the phone herself,
and such long letters from
strangers she hasn't had time
to read them. She even hesi-
tates to look upward lest
another helicopter descend
on Glen-Ora, as did the one
hired by q national maga-
zine 10 days ago for the pur-
pose Of disgorging Q camera
man and reporter.
incidentally, Glen Ora,
not Glenora, Is the way the
name Of her place should be
written. It appeared in
hyphenated form on the
original deed and that's the
way it has been referred to
on contracts, stationary. etc.
Since she has a good sense
Of humor, some Of the things
utter strangers have felt
obliged to communicate have
tickled her rather than har-
aSSed her. =. There was the
letter from the man who Is
such q Kennedy fan he Of
fered to work on the place
for room and board only just
to be near his hero. ). There
was the man (not . painter)
who called her long-distance
and told her he thought the
house could use q new coat
Of paint, to which she replied:
Its an old house. It isn't
supposed to look like SUBJ
urbia." :. There was an
other stranger who called to
ask If Jack Kennedy planned
to. do any farming there. II
don't imagine he will have
time, do you?" she replied
politely.
(Actually, the farmer who
stays with the place raises
corn, wheat, orchard grass
and clover and the fields are
rented out for grazing.)
And there was one story
that said the hiding place in
the old stone wall on the $50
to 500 acre estate was sup
posed to have hidden valu-
ables from Union troops dur
ing the Civil War. Mrs. Tar
there had understood other
wise. IT think it was where
one Of the former owners hid
q cache Of whisky" she said
with q chuckle.
The advantage Of leasing
to the next President? The
country road leading to the
entrance of Glen-Ora was
probably the first such lane
in that part Of Virginia that
was cleared of snow.
SPEAKING OF REAL ES-
TATE, things are booming so
In Georgetown that a couple
who came here with the
NASA in the fall and bought
q Georgetown house, were
offered $4,000 more than
they paid for 1t even before
they got the carpets down!
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TALLULAH BANKHEAD'S
forthcoming appearance in
"Midgie Purvis" in Washing
ton during the inaugural
festivities brings to mind the
last inaugural IN which the
deep-throated. unpredictable
actress took part during
Mr.. Truman's inaugural Of
1949 the foremost feminine
Democrat Of the stage was
sitting in the VIP-laden off,
cial stand in front Of the
White House when the then
Gov. Strom Thurmond Of
South Carolina, the defeated
Dixiecrat candidate for Pres
ident, drove by in the parade.
Although she was sitting with
the Trumans, the incorrigible
Talloo let out a vociferous
boo!
Miss Bankhead, you know.
sent Jack Kennedy the short