Show Elsa a Maxwells Maxwell's I D Da 7 a Particles of Pa Patter te rt least once a 8 year when I IfO Io fO o to Washington for the week weekend weekend end I run right into an his tori- tori jil it moment t. t e toil lights flights up the th Viers of a 8 J pi t tb that t retires refines thi thi his old ld heart a e G cn young young Thus us when I i r 1941 I arved arved ar- ar ved inVa in 4 V Va Washington s hington I n att t the h e 4 i clock i-clock train ogo go to a Elsa Maxwell ta party at dice Longworth's a. a cocktail arty at Jimmy Cromwell's to Cromwell's to oe followed by an intimate little dl dinner i r of or more at Evalyn McLean's McLeans ans an's after a 8 long hard New York York York-I I ae k of work in plunged I ged bang into Pearl Harbor lit lilt Jimmy Cromwell's cock- cock il party Governor Edison Senator Pepper Senator Green e Senator tor Guffy Louise Atwill Ji Jimmy and I were rushed van own to the nearest radio sta- sta onto to broadcast our views on onto to sit situation I remember dur- dur ogg the day that I heard much and boasting from ex- ex such as In six weeks sell ll raze Tokyo In three reeks we will be at d my ears flapped in amaze- amaze nt and dismay Irving in C Calif a Iff 0 ornia r n i a had night aught me a a. great deal about l i iW-ater iW water rats of the Pacific o when othen hen it was my turn to go gothe 3 the air I heard myself reaming into the microphone a Thigh high shrill falsetto that the fps J would prove to be no pusher push- push er Eid id d then November 7 when arrived again agam in Washington Attend attend the anniversary recep- recep at the Russian embassy I taped into another tak breath-tak- g movement again again- of north Africa But di didn't nt know that I would have need meed a instead of lately tely following Lord Halifax the great staircase in the re- re line to be greeted with courtesy by my host whom I greatly ad- ad J Its Ambassador Ambassador Maxim Lit- Lit noff and his wife Ivy Low They Jey ey are a brilliant couple e with his clever ef and twinkling eyes and ande j e lame ame Litvinoff dressed in soft so-ft mauve and gray her fine brow beneath a silky shining cap of soft gray hair always suggests the head of Beethoven or Dante I would like to have peeked inside the brains brain of these two realists whose sure knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge and concept of life and people people people peo peo- must have been tinged with witha a certain humor as they stood side by side In such simple dignity dignity dignity dig dig- reviewing the brilliant scene I ment mentally Uy contrasted the present affair with the last visit I paid the Ule Russian embassy be before before before be- be fore the war where a few curious but apprehensive guests admitted in whispers that they felt they have come but they loved the champagne and caviar so much that they took a chance and came cameto to get It it How is the world after all The higher you mount the more obvious becomes the bleating of the social social social so so- cial sheep But I suppose that's always been so since the serpent drew Adam aside at another reception reception reception re re- re- re to throw suspicion on Eve A few weeks ago the same thing happened at another embassy embassy embassy em em- bassy the Vichy embassy of M. M Henri I have it on good authority that M. M Haye Henri-Haye whose embassy I always considered considered considered con con- the backdoor to Berlin stood waiting the other night in his reception room for 40 guests he had invited and who had accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac to come to dinner dinner and and not one arrived Considering the host I dont don't blame them But the party that the Russians Russians Russians Rus Rus- gave drew out the entire town Press Alliance Inc |