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...radio telephone from the French Liner Liberté, at sea last week, Eugene Meyer's Washington Post got an exclusive social tidbit: "Perle Mesta, American minister to Luxembourg and Washington's famous partygiver, starred as a guest at a party . . . She was guest of honor at the captain's table . . . [and] proved that she could 'take' as well as 'give' parties amiably." The Post's alert shipboard correspondent went on to prove himself a master of society-page cliches: the passengers, "a notable representation of the diplomatic, political and social elite...
Hearing that a group of 300 young U.S. sightseers had been stranded in her bailiwick, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta quickly opened a lunch counter at the U.S. legation, doled out free baked beans, ham sandwiches, apple pie and coffee. Said Hostess Mesta: "No American boy or girl is going to be hungry in Luxembourg if I can prevent...
...Prince Bernhard in Soestdijk palace. She also drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General George Patton. After that, she was off for Paris, where she had a date with President Vincent Auriol...
Broadway's trumpet-voiced Ethel Merman, who will play a party-throwing lady diplomat in a forthcoming musical (Call Me Madam), showed up an hour and 40 minutes late for a dinner engagement with party-throwing Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg. Reported Ethel afterwards: "We wound up with our arms around each other, yak-yaking to beat the band. A real swell dame...
Honored at a luncheon in Manhattan: U.S. Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta, who usually throws parties for other people. The luncheon, given by the International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson and the A.F.L.'s Matthew Well, attracted such prominent guests as General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Margaret Truman...