Evening star., 1961-05-03
BY BETTY BEALE

1Q6 merry ulOIlGu VI May
was merry all right yesterday,
even if some of that noise
came from the chattering of
teeth in gardens.
Edward H. Foley, 1861 In
augural chairman, and his
wife gave their annual spring
hors d'oeuvres gathering that
drew 200 or 300 friends to
their Wyoming avenue resi-
dence and its spacious wall
inclosed garden. Washing
tonians are so crazy for a
temperature that matches
the beauty Of their surround
ingS that they seek the beau
ty even without it.
But last evening at the
round and square dance in
honor of Secretary of De-
fense and Mrs. Mcnamara
and Deputy Secretary and
Mrs. Gilpatric, the problem
was to cool off. not warm up.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Brundage
gave one of their gay, ener-
getic, early ending parties
that provided continuous
music by both round and
square dance orcheStras. =.
The exercise, plus the laugh
ing that invariably evolves
when a square Chats eight
people. not one) gets hope
lessly snarled in an intricate
figures Just what the two
Defense chiefs needed after
weeks of keeping their noses
to the grindStone.
THE FOLEY PARTY
DREW EVERYBODY from
the young marrieds to that
delightful nonagenarian Mrs.
Buchanan Merryman, the
Duchess of Windsor's Aunt
Bessie.
It also drew Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugh D. Auchincloss - the
latter in a cocoa brown, black
polka dotted dress; French
Ambassador and Nine. Al
phand, italian Ambassador
Brosio, who bids farewell to
Washington at a May 8
party; Spanish Ambassador
and Mrs. Yturralde, japanese
Ambassador and Mrs. Asakai
and Luxembourg Ambassador
and Mrs. Heisbourg.
It took no Geiger counter
to detect the Democratic
leanings of the household.
There were Majority Leader
of the Senate and Mrs. Mike
Mansfield, Senator and Mrs.
John Sparkman, Senator and
Mrs. Vance Hartke, Senator
and Mrs. Claiborne Pell,
UnderSecretary of the Treas
ury Joe Fowler, National
Democratic Chairman and
Mrs. John Bailey and Presi-
dental Adviser Clark Cliff
ford.
When asked for an opinion
on the pickle Secretary Of
the Interior Stewart Udall
appeared to be in because Of
the letter soliciting oil and
gas men on his behalf. Sen
ator Mansfield recalled a
fellow Montanan. The
Sheriff Of Butte" he said.
"was reelected for rs years
and all he ever said when
asked for a statement was
m-m-m-m."
The Senator said in his
own case, he either replied
"m-m-m-m" or took his pipe
out, filled it, and lit it, and
by the time he had finished
all that, the chances were
the questioner had forgotten
what he had asked.
HUNTINGTON CAIRNS,
Washington's quick-witted
philosopher, was exchanging
witticiSms with Andre Visson.
The Walter Lippmanns were
being questioned about their
trip to Russia and visit with
Khrushchev. And Sheila Ish-
am, one of Washington's more
successful young artists, was
being congratulated on her
March 1 to May l show Of
prints and drawings at the
Smithsonian Institution.
Kay Topping, in a luscious
new mink capelet, said she
had sold her Wyoming avenue
house. The Wiley Buchanans
said they have bought an
other horse and also a pony
for their Leesburg place. And
hardly a soul mentioned Laos
or Cuba.
Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm Bal
drige dropped by, as did the
Gordon Grays, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel H. Kaufman, the
Arthur Hills fresh in from
Palm Beach; India and Her
bert Edwards, Joan and
Art Gardner, the Kurt Het-
ZelS, the Robert E. Lees, the
Frederick Lees, DR.. and Mrs.
Lawn Thompson, Mrs. Harry
LabouiSse, the Bill MerriamS,
Mrs. o. Max Gardner and
Murray Mitchell with a glow
ing suntan from his daily
golf game on the Chevy
Chase Club course which he
himself beautified with his
gift of 100 to 200 dogwood