Evening star., 1961-12-11
BY BETTY BEALE
Star Staff Writer

Star Staff Writer
To see Adlai Stevenson
WHIP through a typical day at
the United Nation is about
as convincing evidence as the
most casual observer would
need to understand why he
turned down the chance to
seek an Illinois seat in the
Senate and why the President
urged him to remain at his
post.
Even If President Kennedy
could find another man with
the rapid-fire mind and in
innate firSthand knowledge
of conditions everywhere, in
cluing such little-known
places as Ruanda Urundi,
and even if he piled him with
Wheaties, it is doubtful that
a successor would have the
physical stamina to keep up
with the ordinary Stevenson
routine.
The unruffled vitality with
which the American Ambas-
sador to the United Nation
sails through a normal day is
something to behold. Only a
man fascinated with his work
and undrained by its demands
could stand to have not only
his whole day but every meal
used for further conferences
with the endless numbers who
need to see him. Not only
must he attend a luncheon
and dinner-his own or some
one else'S - every day. but
breakfast in the official am
bassadorial residence in the
Waldorf Towers is usually a
multiple-attended affair.
1T is A FAR CRY from
the Average American break
fast scene where half the
family is in a wrapper and
the other half in the morning
paper.
Saturday morning there
were seven place mats on the
polished mahogany Duncan
Phyfe table in Ambassador
StevenSons dining room. Ex-
cept for the garb of the guests
and daylight streaming
through the windows over
looking the East River and
the New York skyline, 1t
might have been a small
formal dinner. The same ele-
CANT setting was there.
Across one entire end OF
the dining room is the magni-
ficent l0-foot hight Cora
mandel screen loaned to Gov
ernor Stevenson by his long
time friend. Mrs. Marshall
Field. At the other end a
smoked mirror dominates the
mantel and is flanked on one
side by the famous July l4th
Daunou" painting by Childe
HaSsam on loan from the
Metropolitan Museum which
also loaned the beautiful
Claude Monet painting of the
Seine at Vetheuil" that
hangs on the hite-walled
dining room. There is a
Utrillo belonging to Mr..
Stevenson in the center of
the long wall. and opposite
between the windows is a
charming little Corot.
Seated in such pleasing to-
the-eye surroundings on the
white leather, mahogany
backed chairs were the host;
Ambassador Fouad Ammoum,
Lebanon's top U. N. delegate;
Ambassador George Hakim,
Lebanon's permanent dele
gate; Special Assistant to the
President and Mrs. Brooks
Hays and Richard Thatcher
of the Near Eastern Division
of the State Department.
Following the fruit course,
the Governors cook and
housekeeper, Mrs. Viola
Reardy, who used to work
for the Governors mother,
served Goldfish cakes. broilcd
tomatoes, hot cornbread,
toast, coffee and honey.
During the better part of
breakfast, the Governor and
DR.. Amrnoum, who was
seated beside him, conversed
in French, while general con-
versation was carried on by
the others. AS soon as his
business was over, Mr.. Ste
venson turned his attention
to the whole table, and re-
called former Arkansas Rep
resentative Brooks Hays
suggestion for acquiring
more votes in the United Ma
tions. Russia which recently
got Outer Mongolia in, also