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Show Dusf OH the Chest Mbbbn Scuffed-Shoo Scribe Gets Bid To Russian Embassy Shindig By Frederick a Othasse WASHINGTON I understand under-stand yea saver should sees- a gift horse ia the meuth, ner bite the baad that's feeding you, but rve got aa tavlto from Alexander Alexan-der S. Peaqruabhia. embemador eKtraea-dlnary and plenlpoteat-bary plenlpoteat-bary from Ruaala, and Us Wasus to a ablndlg at their plaes Monday week. A a fellow wh know more oops than embaaaaaor and who aever baa developed a taste for ohaaisaga aad fish errs ta Oliver Oli-ver bowl (B hmb of ae opportunity) op-portunity) I am grateful. I'm just wwnoermc. Is au, bow tha aaSaaaatr yielded after all these years, to ash m a lewbrcw hks ms la seuffed sheas. He said tt would be aa. beaer If Z 14-Karat Btosa-Wmdar Ills mvlUtioa waa a little 14-karat 14-karat stem winder. Oa the top of the heavy, cream colored paper was a picture of the world In gekL wtth a golden hammer andekcltle eueortmpsssd. Above thU globe waa a gold star, be. aeath it a golden sun, and oa either aide a eheef ef gilded wheat Boy! And then H said la engraved script: "The amheeeedor ef the Union of Soviet BoouUiat Itepub-hes Itepub-hes sad Mrs. Faayuehkia re-euest re-euest the honor of your eoca-pany eoca-pany at a reeeptloB oa the eccsv atea ef the Und anniveraary ef the great October Socialist revohiUen eh Monday, the Tth ef November, from five until T o'clock at the embassy." ' ktaddHS. Osdaaaeaaoed vised a hat which Included ms and my pala. It will be a pleasure. I hist want to assure ambassador Pan-yuahkla Pan-yuahkla that I'U be there. Fact to Tve only beea la the Russian Rus-sian embassy twice and both time without Invitation. All I got waa hard looks -from soma gents la blue aerga suite. The first Urns I dropped ever to this mighty pile of yellow brick oa Uth street waa when the Soviets were fixing to move Into the bmg-empty embassy of the late csar. Cmaatag Up The Pleas The Communists were cleaning clean-ing up tha place. It needed it They saved the royal satin brocade bro-cade on moat of the walla, but they did tip out ail the csar'e eoata-of-arma. They fixed up the kitchen and they gavs a magnificent mag-nificent polish to the ballroom with tha euptda on the ceiling. It looked Uke a mighty fancy place for practicing Communists to live, but I must presume they got used to it Next time I called oa the Soviets So-viets waa shortly after the war wbea the first secretary held a press conference on the matter of some ships we'd lend-leased hia employers. Ha didn't have much to say and about all I remember, aside from the men with the folded arms etaring at see, was the odor of beef stew permeating the whole establishment establish-ment it sine lied good. I hope the Ambassador K. and P. serves a pet of it st his party. I know which fork to use oa stew; I'm aot so aura about caviar. . Copyright IMC, by United Features Syndicate Getting lifted Into high society nnbeknovmst Una this bucked me ap and after ordering a red ribbon to pia acrees my shirt front I Went around showing my Md to any reporter fricaw. They ware nnimprsoaid, M oat of them also, and for the first time as their Uvea, bad re-eel re-eel red Ideatteal mvttationa. Some of these gentlemen were suspicious, They fait that maybe may-be the people who asad to U toad Russian parties dkm't go say more. Aad that the smbas-sador smbas-sador waa toning to lower and hungrier echelons Fte oa them. I have investigated these canards. It turn out that the embassy's guest Hat was 1 years old. A lot of the people oa (t wars . deadf many had moved away. ' Beano Uvs Beasts ' A correspondent for Tana, tha Russian news agency, noted this aorry Stat f affairs and suggested sug-gested that the embassailiw invite in-vite some Rve gueeta. Be pro- |