Evening star., 1961-05-19
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BoIdriges' Party Draws
Senators and Suqur Men

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Still aglow from her first
experience on a state visit
with President and Mrs.
Kennedy, White House Social
Secretary Tish Baldrige took
q back seat yesterday at the
cocktail party given by her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. NAL
COIN Baldrige.
The attractive to-do. held
at the Sulgrave Club, was
composed of friends the latter
have made through the years
m Washington. Although Mr..
Baldrige is retiring from his
Job as general counsel for
the United States Cane Su-
gar Refiners Association on
July /, and he and his wife
are moving to Washington,
Conn, they insisted that the
party was not a farewell.
They will be back in Wash.
ington next winter and for
few months every year there
after.
The 6-to-8 affair drew a
flock of Senators and Rep
resentatives, including the
ranking minority member of
the powerful Appropriations
Committee, Representative
John Taber of New York,
who is rarely seen on the
social circuit.
SPEAKING OF SUGAR,
here was the man who doled
out the sugar, laughed Ed
ward Foley as he introduced
someone to the former appro-
pFdations chairman. I asked
the distinguished Congress-
man from New York if that
meant he should be called
Sugar Daddy" But though
I did not hear his answer I
have a feeling it was not 100
per cent in the affirmative.
Representative bert
Thomas of Texas then put in
that it cost $1.25 to get a
dollar out of Mr.. Taber, he
was that careful with Gov
ernment money.
Senator Kenneth Keating
of New York whipped in in
a white dinner jacket and
announced that he was
celebrating his birthday yes
terday. 1T is also JavitS'
birthday" he said, referring
to the other Senator from
New York.
And as II that wasn't
enough of coincidence, he
informed us that the two
Senators from Connecticut,
Prescott Bush and Thomas
Dodd. also have the same
birthday. Theirs was May Is.
The only one of the four
who doesn't list his birthday
in the Congressional Direc-
tory is Ken, and maybe it's
just as well. The other day
when reporters caught him
slipping into the White
House and asked what
brought him there, he replied,
II came over to play with
Caroline"
BOTH SENATOR AND
MRS. BUSH and Senator
and Mrs. Dodd we're there, the
former telling of his invita-
tion to judge the big barber
shop quartet contest in New
York in mid-June.
Believe it or not, said Mr..
Bush, he had been a member
of the same quartet since
| 1922 - they call themselves
the Silver Dollar Quartet
and in all that time they
have had only one replace
ment. A Whiffin Poof himself
and a bass singer, his last big
performance, he said, was
at a Whiffin Poof gathering
in 1859.
Among friends from the
Baldriges' home State of
Nebraska were Senator and
Mrs. Hruska, Gen. and Mrs.
Alfred Gruenther and the
Homer Gruenthers. Although
all the other Nebraskans have
become permanent Washing
ton residents, Senator Hruska
was betting that he will leave
Washington when he retires
from the Senate. But it
wasn't a fair bet because he
Is already living in Arlington.
Representative ance S
Bolton, who is giving a party
on the 23rd ito meet the
Representatives of the new
African nations" was there,
as were young Republican
: Representatives John Lind
say Of New York and Brad
. ford Morse of Massachusetts,.
HANDSOME JOHN LIND
SAY, who comes from New
York City's silk stocking
. district" said he had just
covered his district f6T the