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SUNDAY, DI l.MBLR 22, 1963 WASHINGTON comments Awful Pace He's Keeping Termed Just Way President Works i 7 Mm sachusetts. Mrs. George Maurice Morris, an 18th Century buff, had the entire house, brick by brick, moved to Washington from Danbury, some years ago. The exquisitely cared for, imposing residence, the Lindens, now sits on this city's fashionable Kalorama road. DATING THE President's daughter is not what you'd call a private twosome.

Lucy Baines Johnson, 16 years old, squired by Midshipman Leroy Bates, went to Washington's Watergate Inn for a late afternoon meal last Sunday, but they couldn't just pop in like any ordinary couple. First two Secret Servicemen went into the restaurant on the banks of the Potomac and looked the place over. Then they went out to give their approval. In came Lucy, wearing a white wool dress accented with a gold pin under her top coat, with her midshipman and followed by one of the Secret Servicemen, while the other remained on duty near her car. Lucy and her date were seated at a table for two and the Secret Serviceman was given a table nearby where he sipped coffee for the duration of their stay.

If you have ever complained to your parents about chaperonage, think of the young men who date Lucy and have a protector's eyes on them every minute they arc out with this pretty brunette! A CHRISTMAS TREE for the birds is what they call the unique one in front of the Shoreham Hotel that pies with faces made of birdseed, and little plastic baskets full of suet, popcorn, cranberries and birdseed. Maybe this town is really for the birds after all! Jackie Kennedy bought the Georgetown house that her mother Mrs. Hugh D. Auchin-closs, looked at a year ago when it was priced at It later dropped to $250,000 and then to Before she bought it Mrs. Kennedy saw it four times, taking her sister Lee Radziwill across the street to see it (while she was occupying the Averell Harri-mans' house in the same block), her brother-in-law Bobby Kennedy, the assistant attorney general for the tax division, Louis Oberdorfer, and a termite man to check it out.

It's the same house where her husband was supposed to have gone for a party the day before his inauguration, but though Secret Service protection was sent ahead, he never set foot in it because of the snows, Small world! DR. JANET TRAVELL, the gray-haired back expert, stays on at the White House not because Lyndon Johnson has back problems but because "the President loves Dr. Travell," said one of the inner circle. "If anybody stays on, Dr. Travell will although there isn't anybody in the Johnson family with back trouble." She ordered three special-measurement chairs for him when he was vice-president so that he could get the greatest body comfort and rest while sitting.

He thinks she's great and, besides, shs is a regular M.D. TISH BALDRIGE called the opening night this time. On Jan. 7 Secretary of State and Mrs. Rusk will give one of their two plush, white tie dinners for the chiefs of diplomatic missions and their wives in the handsome State Department dining room.

So, lest they couldn't invite their favorite ambassadors the newsmen will stage their usual scintillating dinner for 500 political bigwigs on Jan. 9, the day the President will make his State of the Union message. The girls have lined up four well known news writers and commentators to kick off the campaign year with cut comments and forecasts. We will be back in the thick of politics from now on, but political talk really got a boost last week when a friend of Lyndon Johnson's said: "The ideal running mate for the President is the man with a national reputation, a big built-in following, great experience, extensive knowledge of foreign affairs and who comes from a populous Midwestern state. In short, Adlai Stevenson.

I can tell you right now," he continued, "Lyndon Johnson is not going to pick a man who is not capable of running the country and Stevenson is. NEITHER OF THE two principals had been sounded out on the subject though Adlai got wind of it when he came to Washington for the National Symphony's Human Rights Concert. As usual he got an ovation when he entered Constitution Hall and during intermission the aisles near his box were jammed with people waiting to get his signature. As the United Nations ambassador wrote his full name on each program, Assistant Secretary of State Harlan Cleveland cracked, "What you need is a shorter name." Replied the former governor of Illinois, "When I was a politician I signed Adlai." Human Rights Delegate Marietta Tree, who came down for the same concert, dined first in the house where her father was born in Mas United Notion Dr. Howard Hanson 'left1, composer of "A Song for Human Rights" poses with Mrs.

Marietta Tree, human rights delegate, and son at the conce-t. Nat Ambassador Aaiai oieven- cnal Symphony's special N. wtdding daie is set for June. It may end up being that month but it is definitely not settled on yet. last weekend by the new administration "to share as much of what she knows with us as she could" said her successor Bess She's a fountain of knowledge.

There are not many like her." WENDY MARCUS, 25-year-old daughter of the head of Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and a graduate of Harvard law School who passed her District Bar exams last summer is helping out in the Star To Hi' Ilusy Paris (WNS) Mick Micheyl has been signed to star in the new revue at the Casino de Pars, beginning in February. In addition to singing, dancing and acting, she will design the sets ar.d compose the music. She is also writing half of the sketches, and has picked the title of the show: renesies." First Ladv's press office. Wendy landed a job with a Paris law firm last summer effective in January. Why doesn't she stay at the White House, considered THE choice place to work? "I think I will be so much more valuable there or wherever I work later if I know how to speak French," said the bright young brunette.

THE WHITE HOUSE denied the story that Lynda's EASTGATE By BETTY BEALE Washington rPesident and Mrs. Johnson had been in the White House five nights before they discovered they could have a massage if they wished. A masseur was part of the Kennedy household and now that wonderful re- taxing luxury can be indulged in rightly by the President i--: i i i i i i uuw ucing laoeiea ine naro Oct UfArlrinrr maw xiKrj Arnr vow VTVsirviug limn it nu a 1 fc.1 1 been in that building." The President's lawyer Abe Fortas says he was down at the White House the other night and didn't leave the President until 10:30 p.m. Believe It or not, Mr. Johnson had two hours' more of appointments on his calendar! He spoke to the President about this awful pace he is keeping, but Mr.

Johnson replied that this is the way he was and this is the way he must work. "Each idea is followed by in- Betty Beale stant action," said his friend Abe of the Johnson presidential routine. "He is like a man standing up before a pitching As fast as the balls come at him he bats them and he has batted everyone of them without a strike or 'foul in the lot." His longtime aide George Reedy got to bed the other night at 11 o'clock for the first time since that black Friday. He was deep in heavenly sleep when the telephone rang at half past midnight. It was the President with the request for something that required immediate attention.

It was 1:30 in the morning when Lyndon Johnson had the information he sought. DURING THE 19G0 campaign he never got more than 3 or 4 hours sleep, and he says he doesn't need more 6. According to his wife rhe sleeps like a log when he does sleep. Regarding the rest requirements of his neccessarily even-tempered staff, only the strong have remained on it long. Liz Carpenter's husband says his wife averaged three hours sleep nightly during the first two weeks of the Johnson administration! In such a schedule it isn't easy for Lyndon Johnson to prepare for Christmas.

You can imagine what it would be like if he went into a shop and started picking out dresses for his womenfolk as he has done in the past. So the other night when he had finished talking on the telephone to Senator Bill Ful-bright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he asked to speak to his wife Betty, and came straight to the point. "Will you do some Christmas shopping for me?" he asked her. The Philadelphia mainliner who is married to the Rhodes scholar from Arkansas said she would be glad to. Later she got to thinking that he was probably being 314 N.

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"He always is," was Liz's reply. THE PRESIDENT, a generous man, is not what you would call a small-time shopper. When he stopped in Hong Kong on his round-the-world vice presidential trip, he bought about 50 or so men's silk shirts. Later a friend saw him wearing one and admired it. "It's the only one I have left," he replied.

"I gave all, the others away." The Johnsons are bent on not giving out the designer, the manufacturer or even the store where any of them may purchase clothes or objects in the future. In fact, it is more than likely that any commercial firm that tries to exploit the White House connection will find itself with no White House patronage. This should seal the lips of those who might try it once. WASHINGTON, more effected than any other city by the tragedy, will really notice the difference when it comes out of mourning this weekend. When the black crepe comes down from the White House front door, chandeliers, mantels and curtains; when the presidential seal in its roped off area in the middle of the East Room is removed; and when the President pushes the button that lights the giant tree he looks out on from the Truman balcony the lights of Washington official life will go back on.

Not the least of the zip that is lifting the town out of its blue mood comes from Carol Channing whose new musical comedy smash hit, "Hello Dolly" has just breezed in. The last time Carol was in Washington she sang at a VIP luncheon Lady Bird Johnson gave for the wife of a visiting dignitary. Heralding the gayety to come, Spanish Ambassador Antonio Garrigues has invitations out for his annual New Year's Eve ball, and competing with it is the Brit-ton Brown's dance. Joan Brown is the daughter of the Arthur Gardners who are giving their annual New Year's Day cocktail-on to-do they took over from the Clark Cliffords. The former Polly Guggenheim and husband John Logan are having their annual big Christmas night dinner and dance for about 300, and the same night Gen.

Sir Michael and Lady West are having a dancing birthday party for her ladyship. There are debut dances nightly. THE CONGRESS that really never adjourned will reconvene on Jan. 7 after its Christmas recess and from sheer force of habit we will welcome it back as though it had been gone since summer. The Women's National Press Club will toss its annual dinner in the Congress members' honor, but not on STARTS mm INDIRNnPflllS-lNQ.

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All the other critics agreed, with words such as "mesmerizing," and in the case of the New Yorker magazine, "remarkable" and "ingenious." The play has been filmed for showing on pay TV, and then, of course, there is always that ultimate praise from the unknown woman in Massachusetts, who doesn't bother with words in the dictionary. She just writes checks to the show. "I THINK I will be able to look back at this as the greatest experience of my life," the blue-eyed, black-haired Hoosier remarked. "It gives me faith that good hard work should pay off, which it so often doesn't." The "good hard work" referred to by the Indianapolis-born actor began at Indiana University, where he first selected some of the poems out of Edgar Lee Masters', the affectionate salute to small-town Illinois life. After attending DePauw University, and putting in a hitch in World War II as a gunnery officer, and then graduating from Indiana University, Charles Aidman spent eight wildly busy years in New York.

While studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse and with Sandord Meisner here, he also appeared in 16 off-Broadway plays, and played Marc Antony in the New York Shakespeare Festival's first play, "Julius Caesar." But he never stopped working on "Spoon River." WHEN HE WENT to the West Coast in 1957, and organized a Theater West workshop out there, "Spoon River" was the project his group concentrated on. Eventually, it was presented by the theater group of UCLA, and it was during that run that the Broadway producer, Joe Cates, saw it and decided to bring it to New York. Married to the former model, Frances arm an, Charles Aidman is the ion of Dr. and Mrs. George Aid-man, formerly of Indianapolis and Richmond, who now resides in California, Very Special Purchase Direct from Antwerp, Belgium Diamond Christmas Specials! Finest Diamond Qualify at Lowest Possible Prices JUST ARRIVED in time for Christmas giving a very special purchase of exceptional fine quality diamonds offered at special low prices! Buy now and SAVE! Full Purchase Price of Any Rost Diamond Allowed When You Trade for Larger Rost Diamonds.

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Only one other such instance of accidental generosity is on Broadway record. Three years ago, Mrs. Isaac Stern succeeded in collecting from her friends the sum of $20,000 in order to keep the play "The Wall" in business. WHETHER the Massachusetts woman, who vowed "Spoon River" must never close, is successful or not, actually makes little difference to the handsome Hoosier actor who has been working on the Edgar Lee Masters transposition to stage since 1948 when the poems were first called to his attention by Dr. Lee Norvell of Indiana University.

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