Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-25
BY BETTY BEALE
Star Staff Writer

0tdI SldlI "TlIcE
Tut, tut, how can they say
women have a monopoly on
witchery!
The seating at the stag
Gridiron dinner last week
end must have been planned
with diabolical delight. Not
only was the Manchester
Guardians militantly liberal
Washington correspondent,
Max Freedman, placed next
to the boss of the Birch So
ciety, Robert WEIGH, which
made Max livid, but George
Cabot Lodge, who broke the
rules when he took a Negro
to the Metropolitan Club for
lunch, was seated almost in
the lap of the Metropolitan
Club executive who had to
write and tell him so.
You can't help wondering
who, the fellow was who
dreamed up this arrangement
with such relish.
THE GEORGE ROMNEYS
made a pleasant impression
on all those who met them
at the Gridiron reception,
one woman in particular.
Everybody around her was
introduced to the Romneys
except, by oversight, herself,
so she held out her hand
and gave her own name to
the G. o. P. Michigan guber-
material candidate. Aware of
what had happened. he
quickly held out his own and
said, I'm George Romney.
I felt I had been cheated"
The woman went off in a
state of elation ready to cast
the first presidential vote for
G. R. Now there's a man
who will go far. Another
woman, an absolute diehard
on the cocktail circuit, cooed
into his ear, You're my can
didate because you don't
drink"
ALICE OSEVELT
LONGWORTH seemed very
disturbed at this party when
asked about the statement
attributed to her in the cur
rent issue of a national
magazine. She was
quoted as saying Society is
just a word made up by a
lot of boobs on newspapers
for a lot of other boobS to
read about" What she
had said, averred Mrs. Long
worth, was that some of the
gossip columns one sees in
print are bunk for the boobs
and sophistication for the
simpleminded."
BRITISH AMBASSADOR
Sir David Ormsby Gore was
not prepared for the elegance
of the stag Gridiron dinner.
1t is strictly white tie with
no exceptions made, but ap-
parently he had not read his
invitation carefully. He
showed up in black tie, took
one look at the soup and
fish" garb around him,
Zoomed back to the Embassy,
quickly changed into re-
splendent full dress, and
zoomed back again in his
Rolls Royce.
SENATOR BARRY GOLD
WATER, who made the
principal G.. o. P. speech at
that dinner and was sub
sequently criticized for de-
voting two-thirds of it to
serious talk, said he had
been told to be both humor-
GUS and serious, and besides
he had some things to say
to the President and he was
sitting right there so I said
them"
The Conservative presi-
Dental candidate, who took
his razzing along with other
headliners, thought the club
show was entertaining and
witty but should be "a little
more pithy, a little more
biting"
The Senator also had some
words to say on the subject
of the dynasty" charge
labeled at the President. II
don't take too dim a view
if the person you hire is in
dispensable, but I think it
should be avoided wherever
it is possible. But if it were
done on my level, if I had
engaged my whole family,
and I don't have a family
that big, I would be catch
ing pluperfect hi. But it's
a different thing when the
President does it,"
Later. still thinking po-
litically, Senator Goldwater
said he hoped no one would
ever confuse his Phoenix
home with the one on the
next hill about a quarter mile
away. His neighbor, one
Walter McCune, and his wife
and two adopted children
live there in 23-room house
with a 20-car garage, So