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...give or attend one might just as well start packing his bags. Some 60 guests entered the L.B.J. ranch (Spring Valley division) under a spotlighted marquee, supped on beef, beans and brownies. Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy led the list at the French embassy, where Ambassador and Mme. Hervé Alphand served a magnificent buffet with champagne. Two Kennedy sisters, Pat and Jean, were among the diners at the Douglas Dillons. There was hot crab meat for 26 at the Paul Nitzes, beef stroganoff for 40 at the Angier Biddle Dukes, ham for 30 at the Averell Harrimans. At the most...
Over cocktails with French Ambassador Herve Alphand a few weeks earlier, the adroit name-dropper dropped into Al-phand's pocket a list of U.S. cultural leaders (among them: Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern) who had never been accorded the Legion d'Honneur. As White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. later told Lyons: "You were to have been invited, but the French ambassador suddenly brought in a long guest list-and it left no room for you." At Horizon House, a five-room cottage for the disabled at New York University's Institute of Physical Medicine...
Theologians always tend to clothe themselves in honorary gowns, and since the great Swiss, Karl Barth, may still be in the country June 14, his name is a sound one. Rumor also spreads word of Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike. Among foreign diplomats Herve Alphand, Ambassador of France, seems a more than probable choice. Douglas MacArthur, unable to collect his degree on the last occasions of its awarding, will hopefully manage to come this year...
Next week's Ford Hall Forum will feature the French Ambassador to the U.S., M. Herve Alphand. He will discuss "France and World Affairs...
That toughening applies also to the U.S.'s relationship with its Allies. When he received a note from France's Charles de Gaulle last week, expressing fear that any sort of negotiations could only lead to dangerous concessions, Kennedy informed French Ambassador Herve Alphand that he was growing weary of the French attitude of offering objections without any help. Replying to an equally anxious note from Germany's Konrad Adenauer, Kennedy assured West German Ambassador Wilhelm Grewe in no uncertain terms that he does not intend to let West Berlin go down the drain, or to make...