Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party-loving diplomats in Washington, none is so indefatigable as Nicaragua's Ambassador Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, dean of the diplomatic corps (miniatures of 33 medals, one sash), who in his social seniority sometimes attends a luncheon, three receptions and a dinner all in one day, so far this year has been seen at 513 such functions. Busy, portly Sevilla-Sacasa scarcely has time to throw a party...
...fiber right out of her hair, svelte Capital Hostess Gwen Cafritz unwoolled herself after posing implausibly as Santa at a benefit. Supposedly a surprise to the guests, Gwen's gambit had been detected by ear-to-the-martini-tray Columnist George Dixon, who ungallantly told all in the Washington Post and Times Herald the day before...
...years of teaching, most recently at the University of Washington, Roethke has apparently found little to change his mind. He has no use for rationalism ("that dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys") or for the machine-made world of organization men ("mutilated souls in cold morgues of obligation"). But to oppose them he offers nothing more than the slow, visceral, unthinking life of animal existence: "I care for a cat's cry and the hugs, live as water...
Christmas (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Bishop Fulton J. Sheen applies the Nativity story to 20th century life. Services follow over ABC at 10:45 p.m. from Washington's Lutheran Church of the Reformation, which boasts one of the best choirs...
...Washington Cathedral (NBC, 9-10 a.m.). Christmas Day services at the capital's leading Episcopal church...