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After a luncheon at Washington's swank Shoreham Hotel was held a charity fashion show. Its principals and onlookers were socialites, debutantes, Congressional wives. Among the mannequins were two Senators' wives, Florida's Mrs. Claude Pepper, Kentucky's Mrs. "Happy" Chandler. Name of the show: Gilding the Lily for Glamorous Days and Nights...
Last week there were indications in Washington that Pat Hurley, greyer but still stiffly handsome at 57, was about to rise and argue the point. Reporters prowling about Washington's Shoreham Building, which Mr. Hurley owns and uses to house his rich law practice, discovered that: 1) one of the seven Hurley law partners spends his time answering (encouragingly) letter-writers who think the Republicans this year need more color and less pussyfooting; 2) at least one State's Republican boss had already offered his delegation to Hurley; 3) Hurley biography brochures were getting wide distribution...
...Shoreham Hotel they waltzed it. The U. S. Marine Band, in Potomac Park, played it straight: Dee deedle dee dum dum, dum dum, dum dum. . . . Dee deedle dee dum dee dum dee dum. . . . Many another orchestra and soloist twanged and blared it. It was even played in Hawaiian style. A local radio station dramatized the life of its author. All this hullabaloo in Washington, D. C. celebrated a work which first took U. S. ears by storm 50 years ago: John Philip Sousa's The Washington Post March...
...Other Washingtonians faced the embarrassment in various ways. New York's Laborite Senator Wagner fled from the picket-bound Shoreham to Manhattan. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, C. I. 0. Vice Presidents Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray moved out of the Carlton, Mrs. Mordecai Ezekiel (whose husband is economist in the Department of Agriculture) picketed in evening dress. SECommissioner Jerome Frank stayed on at the Wardman Park Hotel and Senator & Mrs. Millard Tydings at the Shoreham. Those who passed the Mayflower picket line included the Bankheads (Senator & Speaker), Senators J. Hamilton Lewis, Carter Glass, Walter George, Arthur Capper, Clyde Herring, Kenneth...
...friend of his neighbor, Senator-reject William Gibbs McAdoo, that California papers call him "Deputy Senator." In Washington he knew enough not to take the 20 job-hunting letters he received every day too seriously. Instead he read Jim Farley's instructive autobiography, dined with friends at the Shoreham Hotel, danced to his favorite tune- The Last Roundup. "This is just a honey-moon," he said...