Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-11

ANONAAASS AAAAAOC4 . BACCII OlOI
tweed ensemble I ever hope
to see. 1t had a waist length
tapered jacket. a draped
tapered skirt.
Assistant Secretary of
Labor George Lodge and his
cute wife Nancy were there,
George comparing his pale
pallor from a Geneva con-
ference with Mrs. Gordon
Gray's Southern tan. George,
who is even taller than his
Uncle John, said he went
Shedding down Woodland
drive the other day lying
face downward with Uncle
John on top of him.
MRS. GUSTAVE STEW
ART entertained in her
lovely R street home yester-
day in honor of former
Ecuador Ambassador Gus
Dillon and his wife Sophie
who will be here another
three weeks.
The Augusta RosSos were
there, Frances in a becoming
closef1tting. coral rose tur-
ban Maryland McCor-
mick had on a fitted cap of
ruby red stones that sparkled
like rubies. Catherine
Written was hatless. &.
Polly Guggenheim was a late
arrival, so were the Eric
Johnstons. Rahel and
Fontaine Broun were there,
George Williams, Secretary
t othe Cabinet Bob Gray and
Rafal Lepkowski.
GEN. THOMAS WHITE,
Air Force Chief, and his wife
gave a military dinner for
Gen. Chen Chia-Shang, Ma
tionalist Chinese counter
part, Wednesday night at
Boiling Officers Club. I say
military dinner" because
there were but four civilians
in the whole club including
Ambassador George Yeh and
Mrs. Claire Chennault, if one
can put the widow of the
famed general in the civilian
category.
Now teaching Chinese and
doing research at George
town University, pretty, 81
year-old Mrs. Chennault was
DANGEROUSLY costumed in an
ivory satin floor length
Chinese dress with a match
ing fitted floor length coat
bordered with white fur
around the hem.
Despite the fact that not
a single officer would sit down
to chat during the cocktail
hour because Gen. White was
still standing, the dinner was
a charming relaxed affair,
partly because of the I'M
stuffy attitude of the Whites,
themselves. and partly be-
cause of the frankness and
humor Of the Chinese.
The room had the soft
romantic glow of twilight,
and there was a bower of
lowered boughs over the
small head table. mo, they
weren't japanese cherry bios
sons; they were apple BIOS
soms.) The musical program
wasn't pretentious, just two
accordionists and the Air
Force strings playing roman
tic classical airs during din
ner. Instead of the meat
course I wished they had
played during dessert. It's
hard to get romantic while
chewing f1let mignon.
After dinner Tom White,
with effortless simplicity,
paid glowing tribute to the
courage of Chinese flyers.
Then a beautiful short color
film of their exquisite preci-
sion in jets was shown to the
company. Taken by the
United States Air Force, it
will be available to COM
mercial theaterS if asked for.
BUT PERHAPS 1T WAS
HANDSOME GEN. 1 (pro-
nounced "ee~, director of
Chinese AT Intelligence. who
best explained the spirit and
never say die attitude of the
Nationalist. He hasn't
the slightest doubt but that
the Nationalist will return
to the mainland some day,
not to be dominated by Com
muniSts either. Then
you discover that the Chi
nese, who've had 5000 years
of civilization, think in terms
OF centuries. He pointed out
that as established as the