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Missouri's earnest, plodding Forrest C. Donnell is one U.S. Senator who has never sampled the hospitality of Washington's No. 1 hostess, Perle Mesta. Last week, when her appointment as U.S. minister to Luxembourg reached the Senate floor, Republican Donnell was ready & waiting with a hungry look in his eye. First he demanded to know whether the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had ever discussed Perle's qualifications (it had not); then he read extensively from J. Rives Childs's American Foreign Service, to prove she had none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Gem of an Appointment | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...that wealthy Perle Mesta was moving to Luxembourg to be the U.S. minister, something was missing in the capital's social life. Who would take her place as the No. 1 partygiver? Sweltering Washington, where bureaucrats are grateful for a drink or a dinner in the July heat, was anxious for an answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Life Among the Party-Givers | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...Luxembourg. 4. Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Although social life ordinarily is pretty dull in Luxembourg, there was nothing to stop Perle from throwing some of her big parties there (to entertain, she will have to add considerable of her own money to the $15,000 or $20,000 salary of a Minister). Since Mrs. Mesta is a widow, protocol officers were spared one problem: when it comes to table-setting, there is no place to put a Minister's husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: An Oyster for Perle | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Veterans of the Luxembourg post calculated that the job of running U.S. diplomatic affairs there would leave her about 23 hours of. free time each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: An Oyster for Perle | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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