Evening star., 1961-12-31


In the words of Mrs. Kennedy, in speaking of her life
today If want d to be right you have to do your
SELF"
There is another young lass at the White House to-
day who could give Mrs Kennedy for being First
Lady" Of the land.
play "Old Macdonald Had Farm during formal diplo
matte reception she likes to walk to the office with
her father in the morning and pick him up in the eve
ming If she can avoid restraining hand.
Our House
Caroline also welcomed former President Truman to
the White House his visit there in March with You
used to live in house."
On another occasion Caroline with pixy grin was
overheard say Daddy is sitting upstairs with his shoes
and socks off"
Travel History
1t busy year. too for the wife of Vice President
Lyndon johnson and the Cabinet wives each of whom
had to make her own adjustment to the spotlight of the
New Frontier
It was relatively young Cabinet with many children
still in school Hence, getting settled in CITY, most
of the Cabinet families had to do brought the additional
complication Of switching children to new schools or max
ing living arrangements for them they stayed behind to
finish out the school Many did not get settled down
together until the summer.
AS had Cabinet families in the advent of past admin
sratons the settlers had to spend good part of
their time sorting their way through myriads of
friends as those whom it politically personally
necessary elbows with the great jockeyed for position
Second Lady of the Land Lady Bird Johnson a marvel
of efficiency with patina of Southern charm managed,
in the year, to furnish and move into house Mrs
Pere Mesta's Les Ormes which the Johnsons' renamed
(The Ems). build swimming pool complete construction
of televson station in Texas accompany the
Vice President trips to Africa and the Far East where
she had her busy schedule apart from the Vice Pres
DENTS and make her first fu-scae formal speech to
rado-Tv in New York; all this in addition to
carrying the nnumerabe chores the nature of ribbon
shipping which fall to the Vice Presidents wife.
Quiet Efficiency
Mrs Dean Rusk, wife Of the Secretary of State moved
with quiet efficiency fill important niche in the
State Departments ceremonial side.
She went her husbands representative to nnumer-
able embassy parties and acquired her own cubby-hole
office in the State Department the better to keep her
hand the planning for the many events at which she
and the Secretary entertained.
In mdyear she took yet another function after
the unmely arcrash death of Mrs Angler Biddle Duke
wife of the Chief of Protocol.
When foreign chiefs of state to Washington it
Mrs Rusk instead of the protocol chiefs wife who
escorts the separate visits they may have
planned She sometimes with the chief of state him
SELF too ceremonial trips such laying wreath on
the Tomb of the Unknowns.
Attorney General Robert Kennedy's wife Ethel
aged to establish herself as personality right
with her energetic skiing and horse show riding and by
rescuing guest in her swimming pool-no mean acheVe-
ment in family of energetic and talented Kennedys.
Five Cabinet history by travelling in body
with husbands, goodwill trip to Japan where the
held joint conference covered by 200 re-
The five were Mrs Rusk wife of the Secretary of sate
Mrs Uda. wife of the Secretary of Interior Mrs Free
wife of the Secretary OF Agriculture Mrs Hodges
wife of the Secretary of Commerce. and Mrs Goldberg
wife Of the Secretary of Labor
Mrs. Freeman went on from there to visit other Far
Eastern countries with her husband and returned with
moving impressions of the poverty and squaor she had
q QeepeneQ
Mrs Goldberg won kudos from Secretary of the In
terror Uda for another trip she had made accompanying
her husband to Scandinavian countries this fall
Noting that Dorothy Goldberg had made front-page
news with her interviews and press conferences sometimes
showing stories about her husband to inside pages the
Interior Secretary said admrmgy: Her warm wonderful
quotes made her great representative for her country
If there such successes we may attain real equality 1or
women" ,,
Dr. Mary Bunting president of Radcliffe College in
augurated program to encourage the older woman to
return to college and continue her education at the
And the work Of two National Institutes of Health
scientists represented major nreaktmougn IN
cancer research Dr. Sarah Stewart isolated the poyoma
virus which mouth tumors With DR. Bernice
Eddy she the virus in tissue culture to produce
cancer mice. Their work is now being used as MODEL
for the attempt to find the virus in human cancer
The year also appointment of the first woman
physician to attend the President Dr. Janet IraVe not
only brought the rocking chair back to popularity for its
orthopedic therapy use, but also is well known as
researcher.
DR. Charlotte Stery of the worlds outstanding astro-
physicists who received the 1860 Federal Service Career
Woman award: DR. Helen M. Dyer NTH bio-chemlSt,
named as recipient the American Chemical Socetys 1862
Garvan Medal and Dr. Nancy Roman astronomer with the
National Aeronautcs and Space Administration who in
charge of the project to put the first astronomical ooSeVa
It was different story last year women politics
The women who made the spotlight their rather
than as somebody's wife, still of grievance
against the Kennedy administration which they feel
appointed relatively few women to high level posts.
The situation has improved slightly since last spring.
when the camor loudeSt
But there still is in the Cabinet, and only
one woman assistant Secretary of Labor Esther Peterson
in the sub-Cabinet.
The only Ambassador, Miss Frances Willis in
Cylon foreign service officer who also held an
AmbassadorShp during the Eisenhower regime.
OF the who do have jobs few seem destined to
leave soon
The very first woman appointed by the Kennedy
Administration Treasurer of the United State Elizabeth r.
Smith, has indicated she plans to out to return to
politics in California.
There have been reports that DR.. Janet Traven the
Presidents physcan-whose appointment had been
tcularY Welcomed because It broke ground