Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-23
ITALIAN AMBASSADOR

ITALIAN AMBASSADOR
BROSIO settled the question
Of career versus non-career
ambassadors the other night
at his dinner in honor of
new American Ambassador
to Rome, Freddy Reinhardt.
With the latter's appoint
ment, he said, I'VE knew
that a bright, intelligent and
competent diplomat would
come to our country" Then
he reminisced about former
good ENJOYS.
I'VE have had Ambassa-
sailors Kirk, Dunn, Bunker,
Luce and most recently Eel
lerbach. Some were career
diplomats; some were not. 1t
does not matter who is
career and who is not;
it matters who is a good am
baSsador and who is not, and
I would say, even more it
matters who is a lucky am
bassador. We should be
humble enough" said this
gentle, humble, yet most So
phisticated diplomat, ito
know how much the element
Of luck counts"
Seldom" he confined
looking down the long table
at the handsome Foreign
Service Officer seated on his
wife's right, "has an appoint
ment been received with
such unanimous enthusiasm.
But I warn you don't trust
this easy beginning. Italians
may seem tickle because they
are an active, growing, i'm
FASHIONED people. So they
have to be watched care
fully, and you are the man
to do it." finished Manlio
Brosio with the honest
fatherly wisdom Americans
have come to evaluate
so highly in Italy's top am
basSador. Washington will
miss him and his wife when
they leave for Paris next
month.
IF YOU RECEIVE AN
INVITATION from Jane and
George Wheeler to meet Mr..
Gagarin, don't go jumping
off into space at the wrong
conclusions. It won't be in
honor of Cosmonaut Yuri
Gagarin,- it will be for his
fourth cousin Serge Gagarin
Of New York who went to
Choate School with John
Fitzgerald Kennedy and now
works for the Sikorsky Air
craft Co. At least, Serge is
certain YuYi must be about
his fourth cousin.
When Yuri suddenly burst
into the worlds focus, it oc-
CURED to Jane that she
might give her friends quite
a start if she sent out in
vitationS thuSly inscribed.
And Just when she was mus
ing over the idea, Serge Ga
garin came to town.
A White Russian, If there
ever was one, Serge insists
that Yuri is not a peasant,
that there are several Yuri
GagarinS in the Almanac de
Gotha, and that the reason
Yuri was chosen is because
the SovietS think White Rus
SLAMS are dependable. The at
tractive Serge, who is him
self small like Yuri, says he
has a nephew who looks ex-
actly like him.
49,
BILL WALTON, artistic
adviser to President and Mrs.
Kennedy, is serving as a con-
sultant to the Salute to the
Arts" luncheon being given
by the Woman's National
Democratic Club at the May
flower on the 9th. This
is the luncheon that will fea-
ture Cornelia Otis Skinner
speaking for the theater,
George Balanchine for the
ballet, Larry Rivers for paint
ing and Philip Johnson for
architecture. Mr.. johnson is
the only man I know Of who
truly can't afford to throw
a single verbal stone at his
fellow beings. He lives in a
glass house in New Canaan,
Conn.
Oddly enough, though Mr..
Walton's services were Sc
cured for consulting on a
high level intellectual plane,
his contribution that made
the biggest impression was as
earthly as food and down.
right elemental, to say the
least. The committee was be-
moaning the fact that ladies'
luncheonS have a way of
lasting forever, when Bill
came up with the mammoth
suggestion, why not cut out
the first course" So for
once there will be no fruit
cup sitting on the plate when
guests arrive, and who
knows, Artist Walton may
have started a new wrinkle
that will save women hun