Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-10
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Not Always Simple and Quiet
By BETTY BEALE

crossed through the soup
course at the Baker menage
when Charlie and Martha
Bartlett stated categorically
that this conclusion was
absurd. With 50-odd mem
bers of the press covering the
presidents every movement
in HyanniS Port, how could
such a move to nearby Watch
Hill go unnoticed? Further,
it was not the kind of thing
the President would do. Still
further, the helicopter wore
none Of the presidential
marks; clearly it was not the
presidential helicopter.
ARTHUR IMMEDIATELY
BACKED UP his story with
a hundred-dollar bet and
Charlie retaliated by raising
it to 5000 before 10. witnesses.
Betty Burton, who could have
resolved the issue then and
there, declined in a choked
voice to comment. Joan
Gardner, palpitating to spend
her husbands 5000 winnings,
made a Decline to the phone
and called her friend, Nine.
Herve Alphand, who, with
her husband the French AM
basador, had also, been at the
Wheelers' last week end.
At first Nine. Alphand de-
clined to comment, then she
stated she had not seen the
President. This might have
settled the burning question
except that someone remem-
bered that diplomats are
bound by the laws of diplo-
macy to see only what is
diplomatic.
The issue might have
rested there If County
"ziggy" de Segonzac, United
States correspondent for
France-Soir, who had been
following the discussion with
detached amusement, had not
remarked zen PEASANT" that
France has developed a new
jet-type helicopter which is
now being manufactured in
this country.
HAD HE DROPPED A
BOMB from a helicopter, the
effect could not have been
more electric. The PreSi-
dent, declared the Gardeners,
was trying out the new
French designed jet hell
copter (Which goes 140 miles
an hour with an eye to re-
placing his old-style ones,
and everyone involved was
sworn to secrecy because his
staff would have looked
aSkance at his experimenting
with such an unconventional
mode of travel.
Ridiculous, said the Bart
let's. Betty Burton suddenly
said she had a headache and
would have to go home at
once. The host announced
that If the subject was not
changed, everybody would
have to go home. The sub
ject was not changed, and
nobody went home.
Did he. or didn't he? The
topic is still burning up the
social wires of Washington.
The answer is worth 5000 to
one Of two men.
\
(P. SITS going to cost
Arthur Gardner 5000. Pierre
Salinger said today that is
not true" in replying to an
inquiry as to whether the
President left Hyannis Port
for Watch Hill, R. H.
FRENCH AMBASSADOR
and Nine. Alphand's private
showing of the new Ingrid
Bergman film, "Aimez Vous
Brahms" drew a chic gath
ering to the Motion Picture
Association theater Friday
night. There were British
Ambassador and Lady Gao
cha. Secretary of the Treasury
and Mrs. Douglas Dillon.
Mrs. John Sherman Cooper,
fish Baldrige, the Joe AL
sops, Presidential Assistant
and Mrs. Arthur Schlesinger,
CounselorS Claude Winckler,
Pierre Pelen and Count de-
Ia VilleSbrunne, of the French
Embassy, Rosemary Pelen,
the Bruce SundlunS, Count
de Segonzac, Capt. Robert
Bruson. departing NATO
French bachelor, and so
forth.