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Bob Wils on's annual St. Patrick's Day Party .

Buffv Cafrltz makes a dramatic entrance in Pauline Trigere's eueningjumpsuit in ribboned silk organza

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D Po/iticisms: Don't discount rumours that Nixon will run for Congress if not in '76 then '78. He's tantalized by the 'idea he could be first ex-Prexy in Congress since John Quincy Adams ... Word is that John Ehrlichman's ~pcoming novel has been emasculated by hbel lawyers ... John Lindsay's wife Mary ?enying quotes that John had affairs on politIC~/ circuit. Okay if the rumor helps John sell h1s novel, she says.

Mysterious Washington Post silence on Kennedy's affair with Ben Bradlee's exsister-in-law. Post story broke while Ben was on vacation, then nothing ... Politico boudoir athletes cooling It as big publishers vie for sleep-arounds to tell all . . . Kennedy men stirring for N.Y. convention. Check reservations at fun city hotels ... Agnew was the only one not roasted at recent Friars Roast of old blue eyes. Rickles held his fire. Said if Frank ~kes you so do I ... Redford begged for that G on All The Presidents Men . Rating Board ?abbed tears and went along. Flick was reedIted to give Redford better play.

Royalty Coming: Queen of Denmark will arrive to open Royal Danish Ballet at KenCen · · · Swedish KL1g arrivee . Single persons upset about sudden engagement announcement. He' ll bring his own person now · · · Queen Elizabeth coming, probably to sell u~ the Loch Ness Monster to jazz up the new !ldal Basin Pond ... King of Spain also commgFto sell Post-Franco Spain. . :o~ the big apple comes word of super ~atl-m m New York Harbor on July 4th ...

NOOO boats coming ... Idea is to show that ew Yawk has it all over Dee Cee. Too late J~st check out the big apple types at t ashmgton bashes ... They've got nothing 0 say, cluster together like bovines.

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People: No Bull . . . Steve Bull back in tow . b h n JO - unting ... odd, most Watergaters h ave h' .. h s 1pped out .. . Barbara Howar's ort fa~ sister-in-law" Nancy Murphy, as ':'Orted m her recent best selling tome now h C IC d ' di t an pretty thanks to new orange glop e touted in Vogue. She' s down 20 pounds and go· r mg · .. Alex 0. got a valentine from date Jackie 0 . The Dapper Argentin~cent lan • now Secretary General of OAS has new bl onde narne, Peggy. Vandervoort, a Florida ho fr rse trainer ... Daniel Schorr getting advice Wi~~ Jack Anderson on how to stonewall it congress. Intimates say Schorr's timing went aw . months too late. The CIA h· ry. Ab out SIX t mg had about reached the ho-hum

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stage ... Martha Hartke recovering . . . C. D. Wards had a new image . . . How come Susan Ford gets six points of college credit for skiing . . . David Susskind and Barbara Howar mashed each other publicly on Panorama. Sickie trivia ... Patrick and Gail Daly's divorce near finality ... Pat Schieffer, wife of TV newscaster looking to open plush toy store .

Big feature at the private suppers for visiting Iranian firemen are flicks like "Emanuelle II. " Still the place to get invited to .. . New diminutive Egyptian Ambassador making big entertainment pitch. Charming fellow, but social secretary apparatus needs overhauling . . . Capitalites speculating on what Jackie 0 . had done in Brazil by hot knife, Dr. lvo Pitanguy; nobody' s telling ...

Maxine, the shark back again at Pisces.

Coming East: A West Coast massage technique called " Rolfing." Supposed to be like the T Mexperience is to thumb sucking ... A number of locals dickering to put in super spas like Golden Door close to Dee Cee ... ask Susan Goldwater ... Hottest West Coast Spa now Ashram, means " retreat" in Hindu.

Price $500 a week but no smoking, no drinking, no drugs, no nothin!

Watch for big battle of the stores: Ed Hoffman, Woodies Prexy, hired Maggie Wimsatt, Washington's best social organizer to bring the class trade back to Woodies.

Recent Russian "do" handled by Maggie did just that. Many guests hadn't been to downtown Dee Cee for ages ... B/oomingda/es still has lots to team qbout Capital, suffering from typical New Yawk provincialism .. .

Neiman's will start to beat the drum soon .. .

Speaking of battles . . . the local news shows on the boob tube are committing big bucks to rating war . . . watch for other changes now that David Schoumacher is beginning to make hay in the ratings.

Styles: Jump suits for guys gaining ... ditto caftans for persons. Travelers from Europe saying they' re conspicuous in their shorter dresses. Europe is long and getting longer . .. so are prices .. . fancy hotels in Switzerland heading toward a "G" a day.

Socialites and Embassy types smarting over Sally Quinn quoting Joan Braden on put down of sociaVembassy party circuit. Not where the power is, says Joan according to Sally. It's in the media/ politico circuit, they agree. One Washington smartie says they're both wrong ... comes from working directly under the boss. ooo

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D The Kings of Jordan, Spain, and Sweden, and the Queens of England, and Denmark, are among the illustrious visitors who will be coming to our shores this Bicentennial year.

A small German invasion has already taken place. His Imperial Highness, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, who would have been emperor of Germany, except for events of 1918 which brought down his 1000 year old dynasty, came all the way from Bremen, in February, just to hear his friend Argentine pianist, Bruno Leonardo Gelber, play at the Kennedy Center.

He was a friend of President Franklin Roosevelt and visited him many times at Hyde Park and later at the White House. He recalled that President Roosevelt's mother spoke very good German. Like one of his ancestors, Frederick the Great of Prussia, the Prince is a composer and a pianist as well as an author. He wrote The Rebel Prince" in German and in English, which he said was his first language.

While in Washington the Prince stayed with Argentine Ambassador and Mrs. Rafael Vazquez who knew him well when the Ambassador served in Bonn. The Vazquezes gave an 'old-world' supper for the Prince, and pianist Bruno Gelber, after the latter's performance. Subtle all-white flower arrangements of lilies, lilacs, and narcissus, perfumed the reception rooms which were lit only by tall white tapers, and a violin trio played Viennese waltzes.

Enjoying the pheasant and sauerkraut at the luncheon hosted by German Ambassador and Mrs. Berndt von Staden were

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former Am.bassador to Germany and Mrs. George McGhee, Mrs. Jouett Shouse for whose 80th birthday a big celebration will take place at Wolftrap in June, Patrick Hayes, and the Hugh Auchinclosses. When asked if she thought her daughter, Jacqueline Onassis, might indeed take up the theatre as has been rumored, she told Mr. Hayes: "No, but I was a frustrated playwright myself and at 16 wrote a tragedy which was produced at my school."

David Kreeger, a leader in the artistic and musical circles of the capital, and his wife Carmen, hosted a luncheon also for the Prince and Russian conductor Mstislav Rostropovich.

Lilo Pauls, the wife of German Ambassador to Peking, Rolf Pauls, paid her annual visit to the John F. Davises before proceeding on to Peking. The three festive weeks she spent with them should make up for the austerity on the social scene in Peking.

The Davises were the first to give a welcome back cocktail party. Many Ambassadors, and other VIPS who had known the Pauls here and in Peking, came to the party including Mrs. George Bush. Other parties were hosted by Col. Jack McNeil and his lovely wife, Eia, Ina Ginsburg, the Eberhard Blums, the Stanley Samoffs, and the William Cafritzes.

The John Hoy Kauffmann's castle-like residence, 'Cliffhurst," near McLean, Va., overlooking the Potomac, was the scene of another dinner for Lilo to which came Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi in a snappy new velvet and satin dinner jacket,

Countess Gertrude d' Amecourt gave a small dinner-dance in honor of Mrs. Rolf Pauls. Looking on is one of the guests, Paul Riviere.

the popular Manoutchehr Ardalans, and Eric Severeid. Others at the dinner were Ambassador Frederick Dent, now Special Representative for Trade Negotiations at the White House and his wife , Mildred, who had a golden tan. In the bevy of beauties contingent were Cita Ward, Penny Alison, Jane Coyne, and Mrs. Leo Daly in a super-chic kimono arrangement.

Most of the same beautiful ones added to the spring-like scene at yet another dinner for Lila given by the Mandell Ourismans.

Spring flowers were everywhere in the big house and many of the guests wore spring flower print dresses. Hostess Betty Lou chose the new new look of Vietnamese pants with long loose tunic.

At yet one more party for Mrs. Pauls, Countess d' Amecourt s little dinnerdance Prince David Chavchavadze who plays the guitar and sings Russian , French, German and English songs better than anyone ever did in EI Morocco sold Champagne Room pleased the international group mightily that night. Among them were Prince and Princess Alexis Obelensky, Stephen and Tamara Strickland (she' s half Georgian), Gabriela Blum, who will be the Princess representing Germany at the Azalea Festival in Norfolk, Va. in May. VISITING GREEKS

Elias Demetracopoulos pulled out all the stops for a welcome to Leon Karapanayotis, publisher of Athens' renowned newspaper 'Virna ' ' and his wife who is an archeologist.

The setting was at the handsome house of the Walter Marlowes, the food, extra special and the conversation exceptional.

Guests included Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator William Fulbright, Secretary of Transportation William Coleman, Jr. whose ear was bent back plenty over the Concorde decision (many were for it), Greek Ambassador Menelas Alexandrakis, and financial wizard Elliott Janeway.

THE LATIN-AMERICAN CONTINGENT: The parrots weren' t there in the great tropical co rtyard but 250 beautiful people as Well as 24 Ambassadors to the Organization of American States, came forth to help Secretary General of the O.A.S., Alejandro Orilla, and Ambassador Jose Machin of Venezuela, chairman of the Pan American Council welcome United States Governors Who were meeting in Washington.

"It's time somebody made a real effort to create some understanding between the United States and Latin-America and Orfila is doing it was the comment of one V.I. P. On the way out when Governor Mills Godwin Was asked if Admiral Elmo Zumwalt had a chance to make it as Senator from Virginia he drew himself up like any good southerner (Continued on page 36)

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Eleni: Fashion is My Beat

Fashion "Ombudswoman" Eleni Epstein, inscribes copies of her new book, ''American Fashion" for Mrs. Tlmothee Ahoua, wife of the Ivory Coast Ambassador, and Sally Frame, newly appointed Saks New York Veep.

0 When you are universally recognized by the simple signature Eleni' ; when the Washington Star sends you on the plum trips-Paris, Athens, Rome, London, and Hong Kong while other reporters have a hard time writing off cab fares, and when the likes of Pauline Trigere dubbs you 'one of the best fashion editors in America" some might say you ve got it made.

And Eleni is the first to admit it: T m really blessed. How could one not like my job? I meet the world's most stimulating people and have traveled extensively. In a sense you re only as good as your paper. I've been educated at the expense of The Star. I'm certainly not a fashion expert. I think of myself as a conduit, the person who interprets the trends for Washington women. A fashion writer after all, is nothing but a link between the manufacturer, the designer the store and her readers."

Eleni Sakes Epstein, the diminutive fashion dynamo of The Washington Star for the past twenty-five years, has recently extended her talents and made a significant scholarly contribution to fashion history in her biography of Pauline Trigere contained in the definitive work American Fashion: The Life and Times of Adrian, Mainbocher McCardell Norell and Trigere (New York Times Book Co. 1975 ).

Eleni will tell you it was almost destined" for her to be Trigere s biographer a designer on whom she had kept an extensive file for some twenty-five years. This made her research considerably easier when the Fashion Institute ofTechnology commissioned her to do the segment on Trigere, a subject for which she has a great affinity. ' Pauline is a designer in the strictest sense of the word. She is a master cutter and a frugal Frenchwoman who understands fabrics completely. Her cut, 1

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her fit, her total lack of gimmickry are what make her timeless." It is the kind of couture that appeals greatly to the prominent and terribly active Washington women like Nancy Kissinger, whom Trigere characterizes as "very tailored' and whose clothes must be largely packable as well as photogenic.

Comfortably ensconced in front of the fireplace in her Northwest Washington home, Eleni radiates nothing but positive vibes about herself, her job and the fashion industry as a whole. "People often say to me 'How can anyone be a fashion editor and ever look bad? They expect an ultra-chic image twenty-four hours a day. This is not reaUy the case with me or most of my colleagues for that matter but there is an obligation to look your best.' This afternoon Eleni was chic but certainly not "haute couture. Rather, her look was "pulled-together-professional" from her sleek brown page-boy to her easy cream beige knit sweater and skirt which she wore belted. The only earmark of 'the fashion editor" was the jaunty dark flower that rested on her shoulder and the cynical look in her eyes when the inevitable topic arose of how Washington chic fared versus that of other fashion capitals. ' Look I hate negativism. I don t buy the myth that Washington women are dowdy.

We have a cross-section of American women here. And believe me, these women change from when they first hit this town. They become quite savvy fashion-wise. It s true perhaps that we are not always on top of the latest trends as are women in New York, Paris or Rome. But remember these cities produce fashion. It's an actual commodity there whereas Washington is strictly a fashion consumer.''

Her sunlit, plant-fitled living room provides a stunning spring motif for Buffy Cafritz wearing a new mantailored Adolpha suit. Eleni places Buffy on her personal best-dressed list of fashion luminaries in Washington.

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Where once a lot of fashion writers and designers thought that 'couture" was dead, Eleni now happily acknowledges its resurgence. And of course because Paris Rome and London are the last bastions of couture, the European has always felt more comfortable with high fashion as weU as with its high pricetags. 'European women have less hang-ups about the price of an outfit.

They are secure enough to be seen in a really smashing dress over and over again. And they also care very much about buying outfits just as they were shown in the collectionsthe same colors, accessories, etc. so that they are recognizable St. Laurents Valentines or Diors. Washington women on the other hand are background people and though they may not be as trendy or hard chic as New York or European women I defy you to find any better-looking women than those who were at the Symphony Ball this year! ' For Eleni health, personal care and grooming are just as important as what you put on your back. A fashion and beauty classicist Eleni firmly believes in certain standards that must be met in achieving true personal beauty. 'You have to chart a course-you cant be hit or miss about it. A European woman invests real emotion and discipline in her looks. American women have almost been afraid to seem too interested in fashion.

The clothes alone are not enough-it's a state of mind how you view your role in society and of course your budget. ' Quite understandably Eleni approached the topic of Washington fashion notables somewhat gingerly. She hated to 'name names because of the obvious limitations.

But her enthusiasm and admiration for Washington women of style was irrepressible.

Eleni' s personal best-dressed list of Washing-

tonians bulges with fashion luminaries: Ina Ginsberg, Sarah Gewirz, Nancy Dickerson, Rose Kass, Jane Ikard, Jane Coyne, Betty Lou Ourlsman, Rose Marie Bogley, Buffy Cafritz, Candy Somerville, Veda Morell, Novella Samperton, Monica Greenberg, Teddy West reich, Renee Rizik Kalil, Mrs. Themido (wife of the Portuguese Ambassador), and Gernaaine Ahoua (wife of the Ivory Coast Ambassador whose taste is very French), Evangeline Bruce and Dorcas Hardin (fashion innovators par excellence) and fashion coordinators Helen Moody and Barbara McConaghy ''who always look fresh and original.'' Eleni credits these Wash!?9ton women as outstanding, all sharing an unerring sense of occasion, exquisite grooming and a great sense of self.'

Many of these women have much to teach the average career girl who is perplexed about learning to put together a wardrobe.

Recognizing the need to reeducate women every five years since teens tum into young women who must face dressing for the job daily, Eleni cites Evangeline Bruce as a great example of how to dress for the day. ''She maintains almost a uniform look-skirt and blouse or sweater-it never varies and yet she always looks marvelous. She knows that a Well-cut skirt and blouse in a handsome fabric fall together beautifully. It eliminates the need to over accessorize and if s always an approPriate look.''

There, s not much new for autumn. according to Eleni' s fall forecast. If Washing~on women are eagerly anticipating a dramatIcally different wardrobe, her news is comforting. There will be a change in emphasis but not in actual hemlengths, materials, or accessories. For starters, there will be a continued movement toward a total tailored look for the

day-the man's suit, three piece skirt suits, slimmer skirts tucked in pants, a lot of riding cuts. jodphurs and more boots. Women will be able to free themselves from the sleek chic of the day, and indulge in floating, feminine, and fantasy looks by night. And if you don't think you can find these fashion delights at your Washington store. Eleni doesn't feel sony for you at all. \'Anyone who tells me they can't find fashion in Washington isn't a smart shopper. Sure, if s easier to shop in New York-the stores are all clustered together and perhaps the variety is greater.

After alt they have an unbelievable population to support. But I give Washington merchants all the credit in the world. Their buying has improved tremendously. and we are now able to enjoy everything New York has to offer."

Refreshing momentarily with aCoke. Eleni pauses at a question posed about the future of fashion in Washington. Her answer totally debunks the mystique surrounding the fashion prowess of New York Paris or Rome.

•'You know fashion is all a matter of the eye-the eye accepts or the eye rejects what it's constantly exposed to. Everyone's exposure is different. that's all.·' If this is so, Eleni as Washington's educated eye on fashion is improving our exposure constantly. She is responsible for giving Washington some much-needed injections via her knowledge of fashion history, her travels. and her advice on fashion coordination. In an earlier visit with Pauline Trigere in New York. this seasoned designer. complete with throaty French accent,bestowed a bouquet upon Washington; HYou know you people are very lucky to have a fashion editor like Eleni. She's not only a reporter, she's an educator.·· Eleni, your students thank you. ooo

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D Naturally, Alice Longworth was there first. She was standing on her head 50 years ago, long before it was the thing to do. Now Washington's smart set is not only standing on its head but turning itself inside out to become healthy and keep fit Believe me, dear readers, if we aren' t all sylphs and Tarzans, it is not for want of trying.

That mysterious flu virus sidelined hundreds this winter but even more of the haute monde seemed to be suffering from tennis elbow or ski knee.

And some of those people you missed seeing on the canape and cocktail circuit weren' t on beds of pain at all, but locked in frantic foursomes at the Arlington Y Squash and Tennis Club or at Allie Ritzenberg' s Maryland courts.

Now the flu is behind us, the air is sweet with birdsong and the Washington landscape is alive with joggers.

None so conscientious as Chief of Protocol, Henry Catto who uses his lunch hours to jog four or five miles through Rock Creek Park with nothing more than a wedge of cheese to sustain him.

Should it rain, Henry drops down to the underground garage at State to live dangerously, dodging cars as he runs the course down there.

The President's economic adviser Bill Seidman bought his Georgetown house on 31st Street just so he could pop across the street for a jog through Montrose Park in the rosy-fingered dawn.

It should come as no surprise to learn that Redskins Coach George Allen runs several five-minute miles a day and never misses a day of lifting weights. " I keep in such good shape an occasional piece of chocolate cake doesn' t hurt me," he says smugly.

The Washington Post's Marian Burros and husband Donald jog, but not together.

Donald is out on the street by their Bethesda home at 7:30a.m. while Marian snoozes on.

They jog to keep in shape for skiing jaunts to Aspen, Vail and Taos.

The Washington Star' s wasp-waisted Ymelda Dixon does her own version of the jog down P Street, N. W. between her Georgetown house and her hairdressers a couple of times a week.

Then there are the walkers and they are legion. Iran' s Ardeshir Zahedi works off his caviar binges with long walks around Embassy Row and through the Park, a trusted bodyguard at his side. Gerson Nordlinger does an animated version of the Olympic trials down Cleveland Avenue most days.

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Roger Stevens, who had a proble m with his heart a year ago, tries to walk between his Reservoir Road house and the Kennedy Center a couple of times a week.

Watergate residents Judge John Smith and Citty Parker Smith, the Voice o f America's Ken Giddens, and that fo rmidable tennis player Rep. Richardson Pryor and his wife, try to cover the Potomac waterfront on foot several times a week.

Washington Councilwo m an Polly Shackleton and her husband prefe r to bicycle through Rock C reek Park on one of those special parkways she helped create.

But Betty Lou Ourisman , Lu Engle, Buffy Cafritz and Egyptian Ambassador Dr. Ashraf Ghorbal and his slender wife A mal get their kicks from working out on an indoors exercycle. " I got one for myself but my husband uses it more than I do," Says Mrs. Ghorbal. Buffy Cafritz even has her own indoors walking machine.

Some Washingtonians have the selfdiscipline to exercise wit ho ut ben efit o f machines and alone at home. Tyler Abell and Steve Martindale keep their frames lean with daily pushup and situp routines.

Bob Alfandre keeps in trim at the Holiday Health Club.

Alexandria's Frankie Welch squeezes in 10 minutes of daily exercise at home, indulges herself with two or three massages a week. Scooter Miller recommends her routine of 10 minutes a day of exercises by Tony Beck at the Dallas Greenhouse. Giving up desserts and liquor for Lent helped too, Scooter said. Writer, Abigail McCarthy tries to work out on the floor every morning before she opens her typewriter.

Anna Chennault has her very own dance routine and sometimes jumps rope. Another morning rope skipper is Miranda White.

As President of the Woman· s National Democratic Club for the past two years, Mary Munroe has had to preside over at least two or three luncheon and dinner meetings a week. Her solution to fighting the battle of the bulge? HJust not eating. There is no other way. For exercise 1try to keep up with Pat on the golf course. · Rep. Millicent Fenwick, svelte and fit at 66 , keeps that way by sticking to one hardboiled egg and a hot V8 juice for lunch.

Buffie Cafritz and Betty Lou Ourisman say they try to fast or subsist on liquids one day in every one or two weeks.

Columnist Betty Beale dances like a whirling dervish, plays tennis, golf, and rides as well. But she is proudest of the fact that she uses her outdoor pool, winter heated to 80 degrees every day in the year regardless of weather. She almost slipped in the snow getting in to do her daily routine of isometric swimming exercises last month.

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Those who have it-particularly True Davis and Alejandro Orfila-joined those who don't-namely Mayor Abe Beame and New York City at a benefit fashion premier and dinner dance at the Kennedy Center Atrium and Pan American Union honoring 45, (actually 42, 3 didn~t show due to the flu) top New York fashion designers at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society annual benefit.

Honored guest Bess Myerson rushed in long enough to greet guests and deliver New York salutations and introduce the designers before heading back to New York on the 9:00 o'clock shuttle. Someone in the crowd remarked after her speech that "it almost sounded like she was running for mayor·' while another wondered "if she weren't the oldest living Miss America?" Other luminaries Present included members of the MS committee: Mrs. AI Ullman, General Chairman

M d Mrs. Thomas Keating, Coordinator. ayor and Mrs. Walter Was hington, Mr. and Mrs. James Barrett were among the many guests who stayed on to watch the hour

and a half fashion show.

The fashion statement for the evening was decidedly narrow, sexy and sensuous. As a matter of fact, following the collection of designer John Anthony featuring very plunging necklines, one guest got so excited he spilled his martini all over his wife's dress....

It wasn't very difficult distinguishing between the New York guests and the local crowd; lots of turbans and mid calf lengths on the former, pearls and chiffons for the latter.

No doubt about it, everyone agreed the evening was a huge success and coup: 600 guests at $100 per couple ... the first time the entire Atrium at the Kennedy Center had ever been used . .. the appearance of 42 New York fashion designers (who by the way were all chauffered around in limos. it was quite a scene) .. . 30 some odd limos parked outside the Pan American Union) ... a super show produced by fashion consultant Edith B a ttles . The only regret of the evening was the absence of Mrs. Ford who (you guessed it) was on the campaign trail.

In the party circuit things were popping.

Moroccan Ambassador a nd Mrs . Boutaleb celebrated their country's national holiday by inviting 500 guests from all walks of life in the Washington social circle .... The Canadian Ambassador and his lovely wife honored the upcoming Performing Arts Ball by offering a kickoff benefit at their residence on Massachusetts Avenue. Ambassador and Mrs . Warre n 's honored guest was J esse Owe n s of Olympic fam e. Most of the guests tarried before parting in order to slip in a few words with Owens concerning the upcoming Summer Olympics in Canada.

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by Gene Baro The Path To Prints 0 Not so many years ago, Washingtonians interested in owning art-particularly fashionable art-made the pilgrimage to New York. The goodies were there in profusion, along with a certain excitement in spending the old art budget on Madison Avenue or on Fifty-Seventh Street, close to Bergdorf and Best, Van Cleef and Tiffany.

Now, perhaps Washington has come of age in respect to the visual arts. No one spends more money on the stuff than Uncle Sam. and if the truth were known, art is

Area Artists Exhibit The works of three Washington artists were recently featured at the Foundry and the Pyramid Galleries. At the Pyramid, Corcoran Director Roy Slade, aboue left, takes an artful stand between two of his drawings, both a texture/ blend of pend/, crayon and charcool. Mrs. C orrine Davldov and daughter. Katy, aboue right, greet guests at a recent showing of the former's acrylic paintings at the Foundry Gallery. Bottom left, the Pyramid was also the scene of an exhibit of air brush paintings by Sheila Isham. One of her larger paintings provides a cloud-like backdrop for artist Isham, Walte r Hopps and gallery owner, R amon Osuna.

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coming here in search of federal dollars.

There's no need to risk the cigars on the shuttle or to bounce to the Big Apple on the Metroliner if it's a print or painting you want.

The Washington metropolitan area boasts over a hundred galleries, a few of them with access to the national art market and with the requisite sawy to supply you with a Picasso, a Frankenthaler, or an O'Keefe if there isn't one already in the back room.

Still, there's no use in pretending that Washington is itself a big art market. The

really successful dealers here draw their clienteles mainly from elsewhere and cleverly don't depend upon local trade. But things are getting better. The local scene is brightening.

Washington has more active museums, for instance, than almost anyplace else. The economy is virtually depression-proofagain the Feds. The Kennedy Center is dragging them in, as nobody but Roger Stevens believed it could. Culture is everywhere"lt's becoming a menace," I heard someone say at a Georgetown 'party. And there's chic

here, too, left over from some very much earlier Administrations. Definitely, it's all upbeat.

So don't be shy. Join in and make it happen. Take Cousin Helen's portrait off the wall, or the map of Yellowstone Park, and put up some prints or drawings, preferably American and contemporary, that will liven things up, make better conversation pieces, and possibly be good investments.

The fact is prints or drawings are often excellent values. They are easy to keep, easy to display. They help to train the eye to develop the air of a connoisseur. They give a great deal of pleasure in small compass, and fine examples of contemporary work, by artists of national or local reputation, are widespread in the area galleries.

Almost needless to say the price goes up with the reputation, but not always. Richard Claude Ziemann, for instance, an engraver of landscapes much prized by peers, sells his Prints through the Jane Has/em Galley (2121 P Street, NW) at around $300.00, a modest Price for work of the quality and bound to go up.

The Haslem Gallery is a good place to go for prints. The stock is large and varied, from such venerable masters as Joseph Albers and Mark Tobey to youngsters just beginning to make' their way. Mrs. H., an attractive and energetic woman, will take time with you.

She believes in her artists and knows them and their work (I say this because some dealers don't) and she can talk sensibly about the differences in terms of your needs or desires.

Do you want colorists? There are fine examples of Richard Anuszkiewicz and Julian Stanczak. Are you interested in wood block Printing, a splendid and ancient craft? There's a retrospective until April 14 of the work of Antonio Fasconi, a master of the medium.

The Haslem Gallery specializes in prints, but also shows paintings and drawings, recently an interesting show of paintings, mainly portraits, and some fine drawings, all by artist Joseph White who is a Washingtonian by temporary adoption. He has shown at the Corcoran Gallery here and is in a number of area collections.

If you wander down P Street in the direction of Connecticut Avenue and look across the road, you' II find the Middendorf Gallery at 2028 P. It's a housefront, but the gallery is Well Worth cUm bing the steps for. The owner, C~ris Middendorf, is a genial Harvard man With a taste for prints by established Americ~n masters and with an eye for the work of his contemporaries. Until April 9 you' ll be able to see a selection of the prints of George Bellows (a figure firmly established in the history of American art) that would do credit to a small museum . Bellow's "Workman's Kitchen" is at $275.00 and prices rise therefrom to $3500.00 for his rare and famous Print, " The White Hope."

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Part II 0 Resuming our international odyssey of March, a journey designed to escape the Washington winter scene, Dossier finds some tourists still eager to indulge their wanderlust come April. Spanning the globe from Bora Bora to Jaipur on the first part of our journey, what better place to renew ourselves than springtime in Srinigar, easily accessible from New Delhi, a sinfully idyllic close to the Indian chapter of our travel-tale.

Srinigar, located in the enchanted Vale of Kashmir, is surrounded by majestic snowcapped mountains. Spend, spend, spend on the beautiful shawls, wood carvings, embroidery and silverware available here. The frosting on the cake is your option to rent a fully-staffed houseboat on Lake Dal, complete with English-speaking maid, butler, cook and houseboy. The houseboats are surrounded by aqua gardens and in the early morning floating markets come to your residence, laden with fresh flowers, vegetables, silks and other products for a shopping spree that takes place without ever leaving your sundeck! One simply cannot leave Srinigar without experiencing the Mogul Gardens, especially the Shalimar Gardens ("The Abode of Love") , alive with the sensuous scent of flowers that bloom all year a scent that proved the unique inspiration for one of the Guerlain's most memorable fragrances, "Shalimar."

Your fantasy journey will culminate in Iran, a successful blend of Persian culture laced with a distinct European flavor. The logical place to begin exploring Persia's ancient treasures is Teheran, where the Golestan Palace features the incredible Peacock Throne , a breathtaking spectacle of thousands of diamonds and emeralds encrusting the throne. This visual delight might entice you to view the fabulous Crown Jewels at the Markasi Bank, again in Teheran.

Perhaps closer to the reality of the purchasable, my Iranian sources advise me that Teheran is truly celebrated for its emeralds, rubies and turquoise, all of which can be distinctively designed in individualistic gold settings at stores such as Tellah Grand Boutique in downtown Teheran. Second to none in the world, are Iran's Persian carpets. The best selection of carpets can be found on Phlavi Avenue at the well-known rug boutique

known as Nemayeshgah Farch Iran .

Mohammed Adjari, a prominent Iranian rug manufacturer informs me that the best Kunan's in the world (made thickerfor American taste, thinner for European tastes) are sold here so enjoy, enjoy. After all, a fantasy journey would be incomplete without a magic Persian carpet as a keepsake.

Persian nightlife requires that you take in "The Cellar," a fashionable Continental restaurant that combines Persian cuisine with French in a delicious manner. Later in the evening you can visit Teheran's glittering casino, "Karal;" and dance until the wee hours with the best of them at "Cheminee" (Jacki and Ari no less, made the Cheminee scene during their last visit to Teheran). For accommodations, the DURBAND Hotel , especially in the spring and summer, is ideal for: evening dining and dancing on the veranda.

A short flight is strongly suggested to Isfahan, the glorious city of Shah Abbas The Great, appropriately enough staying at the SHAH ABBAS Hotel, the single most luxurious hotel throughout all of Iran. The hotel is lavishly decorated with Persian carpets, tapestries and mosaics. For those of you who have always harbored fantasies of A Thousand and One Arabian Nights, this is the place to indulge them.

Last but certainly not least in your tour of Iran must be a stop over in Shiraz (easily accessible by air from Isfahan). Here, engage a privately chauffered limousine to Persopolis, Persia's ancient capital, founded by Darius The Great in the fifth century, B.C. If one has the inclination, one can picnic on pate and champagne among the magnificent ruins of the Great Hall and Palace, an experience that will indelibly stamp this bit of antiquity in your heart forever.

Winging your way home from Teheran to New York, you may recollect that a 'journey of a thousand miles begins with the single step'. We at Dossier hope that these suggestions may inspire a fantasy journey fashioned to your own taste and speed.

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0 After Blair House, the Georgetown Inn on Wisconsin Avenue is probably D.C.'s spiffiest place to go for bed and board. It has a doorman who thinks he works at Buckingham Palace and dresses accordingly. It has bidets, a telephone next to each toilet and a list of room services that must have been drawn up

by His Hedonistic Eminence, King Henry Vlll.

The Who' s Who of the World have passed through its doors. They like the bidets, the doorman's sartorial splendor and chatting on the phone while up to their necks in hot bath water. Yet, if the bidets were removed, the doorman stripped of his plum mage and room service cancelled, they'd still come.

They'd come to see Collins Bird, the Blithe Spirit of hoteliers and the Manager of the Georgetown Inn. They'd come just to be near this sweet-faced Georgia-grown gentleman who can make a hardware salesman from Dubuque feel like visiting royalty and a Senator from Minnesota feel like just another one of the guys in a neighborhood bar.

In the peU-meU world of the breakneck pace, Collins gives people a gift they can' t find anywhere else-the unhurried gentility of the Old South; all the time in the world to joke, talk, sing, play and listen.

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like having two demanding mistresses. At the conclusion of his two previous marriages, both ex-wives cited his hotel as "the other woman." "It was real tough for them to play third fiddle" says Collins with the look of a seven year old just caught stealing the cookies. " But that's what happens when you marry a hotel. " Living, sleeping and breathing one's job leaves little time for anything else, and Collins' " Georgetown Preoccupation" has earned him the dubious award of The World's Slowest Reader. " Once when he stopped for a visit Peter Blatty noticed that I was reading the Exorcist and noted that I'd only gotten to page 40. Three weeks later he returned to find that I d only progressed to page 48."

Said Blatty, "Collins, don' t you know that you' re not supposed to be able to put the Exorcist down? Evelyn Wood graduates can read the whole thing in 40 minutes." According to a chagrinned Bird, the author grabbed his book and inscribed it for all to see. "To Collins Bird my marvelous friend who, unfortunately, needs a speed reading course."

The stuffed-shirt school of hotel management is alien to the man who always has a joke waiting in the wings of his head. Take the time when guests on the third floor asked him

to demonstrate his roller skating expertise down their hall. Collins swirled, twirled and skated backwards in real championship form until his performance was aborted by a fall that almost resulted in a fractured skull.

If you're a first-time visitor to the Georgetown Inn, you can count on Collins or one of his friends to show you a commanding portrait in the lobby. At first blush the portraitee looks like the Marquis de Lafayette or someone' s founding father. But behind all the 18th century garb is Collins Bird-the picture of mischief in ruffles and flourishes .

If the walls of the Georgetown Inn could talk, they'd tell wondrous tales of estimable lodgers and visitors; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Charles and Ann Morrow Lindbergh, Marlon Brando, Omar Shariff, Jackie " 0" and the entire cast of The Exorcist. But the person who left the greatest mark on a wall of the Georgetown Inn was Hubert Humphrey. " One day, several years ago, Hubert was quietly nursing his beer in a comer when a mental patient, on leave from St. Elizabeth's, heaved a glass at him. The wall against which Humphrey sat and continues to sit still bears the scar of that bizarre episode. We like to call it 'Hubert's Mark." ' Unless advised to the contrary, Collins charitably assumes that couples who register

as man and wife are indeed man and wife.

"But sometimes guilt and inexperience makes the act of checking-in look like a scene from The Graduate." Collins was reduced to giggling when he recalled one "super cool" man who was registering with his "wife."

"This guy really went overboard trying to be normal and casual. Like a typical husband he deferred to his wife's opinion about room location and then whipped out his pack of cigarettes." " Would you like a cigarette, dear?" " No thank Y.Ou, I don't smoke." Collins almost split a rib trying to keep a straight face.

One of Collins' most popular guests of recent months was Playboy Magazine's advance man who'd come to Washington in search of centerfold talent. Collins was amazed at the " quantity" of female response.

"What about quality," I asked. Endearing in his diplomacy, he said, "see that glass of water? A cynic would say it's half empty. An optimist would say it's half-full." Even his comparative worldliness didn't prepare Collins for the "stage mother" who brought her sixteen year old daughter ("she looked 12" ) to be photographed by the Emissary from Bunnyland.

Bob Hope. Merv Griffin. Hubert Humphrey. Collins Bird has lots of friends in high places and that list includes the men who've travelled highest of all-the astronauts.

You' d have to personally meet this special brand of Bird to fully understand why Deke, Wally, John , Buzz, Alan and Gordie are his pals. And of all the events to which Bird has played host, perhaps the most poignant was the day when throngs of red-eyed friends gathered at the Georgetown Inn to have an Irish wake for three dead astronauts. " That was just the kind of final send-off that White, Grissom and Chaffee would have wanted.

There was love, a lot of remembering and that unforgettable moment when Gus Grissom's wife, Betty, stood up and toasted the husband she'd just buried."

Sometime, in the wee small hours of the morning, sit yourself down at the Georgetown Inn and surround yourself with Scotch and Collins Bird. Ask him about the time Joan Kennedy's caterer failed to show up ... the diver he hired to scan the Potomac for a lost gift 路 路 . Stan Musial's bass fiddling ... the day no one recognized Perle Mesta and how Hilda Gowan disappears whenever Marlon ~rando comes to town. He' II keep you dehghted till dawn because being a good host is something he' ll take all the time in the world to be.

If he were a get-rich-quick kind of guy, Collins Bird could make a fortune publishing the quintessential book of Washington Gossip. " Maybe someday I' II write a book," he says twinkling. " I'll call it WHO'S WHOSE IN WASHINGTON and publish 10 copies at $100,000 apiece. Don' t count on getting a personal copy though. I think most of thern Suzanne Wille o o o are reserved."

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Everybody calls her Jan, and her husband is handsome Taz (Tazewell to you more formal types) Shepard, Jr. They're terribly popular here. " I've been waiting fora longtime to tell you what I think of your hunches! " she scolded.

"The one you made about Red Blount at Betty Beale's party at the Carlton cost me six months of some strenuous campaigning in Alabama that I hadn' t planned on, just to see to it that Daddy got re-elected to the Senate.' ' That was the night of my hunch about Apollo 13-at the Graeber-Dial dinner dance-the one that improved my ESP status with a number of people who are into that sort of thing around here.

I' ll have to confess l had no idea Jan was a guest that night, or that she is Senator John Sparkman's daughter; I assure you I would have withheld the hunch that the thenPostmaster General could have the Alabama Seat if he wanted it. My hunches are intended to amuse, maybe bewitch-but never to offend. Well, almost never. " You have no business hunching about politics when you don' t know anything about it," she observed. That weakened her putdown a bit because everybody knows you can' t hang around the Nation' s Capital for 25

years without picking up a little sawy about our favorite sport.

Jan's point was well taken, nevertheless, and I was sorry, not about the hunch , but because I had embarrassed a lovely lady.

Luckily for me, she' s a forgiving sort.

I mention all of this only because it illustrates how I got gored by a bull. Jan, you've guessed, is Taurus (April 20-May 20). It reminded me of the time a certain music critic was gored by another bull when he made some public cracks about Margaret Truman's singing ability.

No other sign in the zodiac is as loyal to loved ones, or as ferocious in defending them as Taurus. An insult to the object of their affections is like a whirling red cape to them. If you care to survive, get out of the pasture fast.

Remember this when you're around Marty Malarkey, Mrs. Jennings Randolph, Howard Burris, Martha Reed with the flaming hair etcetera, Frank Mankiewlcs, everybody' s favorite Ambassador's wife Lilo Pauls, Joe Tydings, Ann (Mrs. Stephen) Smoke, Merryl Secrest, Mayo Thompson, Marilyn Cohen .Eieni and Blll Walsh of the mercy ship " Hope.'

These serious earth people have one-track minds and incredible powers of concentration, which may explain why astrologers tell us that Taurus usually finishes what Aries starts. Once they' ve mastered their craft, don't try to tell them how to operate; they can be stubborn. Leave them alone and let them do it their way. The result will be close to perfection.

Nina Blackinuited PiSCeS people to help her and Hal Gould celebrate their recent birthdays.

Here are Ken Lone, Hal, Nina, and Tom Slm5 on the sofa. Behind it:Jamie Auchlncloss, Sunny Adler, Emle Hairston , Pat Bray and Steven Kandorlan . aJ camera were Louise Gore, Jane Coyne, Jill Gore Rosenbaum, NlcoleD'Amecourt and Suzie Lynn Kelly.

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Among the perfectionists worth mentioning: Kay (Khaki) Meyer, Ryan O ' Neal, Jorge and Jackie Camicero (the junior ones), Mrs . George Garrett, Dick Pearson , Audrey Hepburn, Presidential Assistants James lynn and William Seidman, Shirley Temple Black, Dr. Benjamin Spock and daisy-fresh Bridge t O'Brien, the inspiration of Agostino's.

Taurus types don' t have a lot of time for frivolity; you won' t find a social climber in the herd. Consequently, they aren' t abundant at the local watering holes or busier bashes.

When you do run into one of them, you' re likely to find the him grazing in a comer, where he can chew his cud in earnest. Trying to get Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns into a giddy mood, for instance, is like trying to pry that pipe out of his mouth.

Don't get me wrong: they have their fun .

But I have a hunch it was they who invented the old cliche about a time and place for everything. The Redskins' George Allen, Gaithersburg Gazette editor Koko Wittenburg , Dick Tribbe, Washington Star Photographer Wally Oates, Voice of America's Pat Gates (finally, Pat!), K-B Theatres mogul Marvin Goldman, Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr. , Golda Meir and both of the Blair lees will understand (I have a hunch Blair Lee is going to be the next Governor of Maryland-any moment now).

Taurus gravitates to music like no other sun sign. Some of the most divine sounds have come from musical bulls such as Shirley Macl aine, Perry Como, Barbra Streisand, Glen Campbell, Ella Fitzgerald, Englebert Humperdinck, Irving Berlin, Ann-Margaret, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton and Woody Herman, C her Bono, Errol Gamer, Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Carol Burnett, Burt Bacharach, Celeste Holm, Fred Astaire, Liberace and Harry Truman.

Among the heavies yo u have Tchaikowsk~, Toscanini, Brahms, Prokofieff, Gilbert' s Fnend Sir Arthur Sullivan, Yehudi Menuhin and Birgit Nilssen . . These are modest, sensitive souls-sometimes a little shy-who work tirelessly, once they have committed themselves (charity c~airpeople take note). They are fabulous Wtth figures. All kinds.

Yo u' II get that message if you check out the 42 Taurean members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senators Mike Gravel, lowell 'weicker, James Pearson, Pete Domenicl and Jake Javlts.

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Hostess Antoinette Clark was the "white dress" exception at her Valentine Art Deco Party. She Is shown here with "Valentine Guests" Jim Shay and Sally Moreton .

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0 Oriental restaurants are popping up around Washington like (Chinese) mushrooms. It was easy to twist our arm to explore this phenomenon; Dossier decided it would be a Capitol idea to investigate these restaurants further.

We've come a long way ... time was that Chinese food used to be the family combination dinner, choice A or B, or chow me in, or maybe chop suey (phooey--<:hop suey was an American invention!).

But discriminating Washingtonians know that, in its infinite variety, Chinese cooking is the most sophisticated cuisine in the world.

Even confirmed Francophiles admit that the cuisine is wider in scope than French; it is more imaginative in its creative techniques and ingredients than nearly any other type of cooking. And, trust us, it's light, it beguiles the senses, and you really are not hungry after a half hour!

We made a random sampling of Chinese restaurants, and threw in a Vietnamese and a Japanese choice for spice. And, ever differentiating, we attempted to savor choices that would not comprise your run-of-the-mill meaL The chefs either prepared dishes not on the menu or promised us an original selection of entrees. We did this for a reason-so you could follow our soy-colored shadow.

Baroness de Galf/ler teaches the tricky art of "chopsticking" to Spanish Ambassador Jaime Alba, while Federol Reserve Chairman Arthur Bums a two-handed rmrornrrc:n.

Actually, there are sophisticated hosts and hostesses around town who know that the oriental restaurant world is their oyster-and they entertain in choice spots. Baron and Baroness Pierre de Gaiffier, Honorary Ambassador for Belgium, held a ten course dinner for 24 at an oriental restaurant last month. Among the notables, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Burns, Ambassador of Spain and Mrs. Jaime Alba, Baron Snoy, the Honorable and Mrs. William Howard Taft, III, Diana Fortescue, and Baron Edmond de Gaiffier, the de Gaffiers' eldest son, just returned from Indonesia ... they dined on such delicacies as bird's nest soup with crabmeat, and Peking Duck, along with some special dishes the China-born Baroness suggested. " Chicken in the Nest" had specially prepared chicken breast hovering over quails eggs in a nest of quick-fried vegetable threads ... mmm ... Another dish was hot pink szechuan shrimps surrounded with a halo of white mandarin style scallops. The dual desserts were a sweet potage made of fresh ground almonds, as well as lychee nuts, flambeed.

The Baroness mentioned how traditional banquets in China used to incorporate the best dish from each province; that's thirty or forty courses, my friends. And of course, guests dined on for hours, the courses peppered with a variety of entertainment for the company. Nowadays, like everything else,

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Other notables are often caught entertaining around town in oriental places. The elusive Tongsun Park-if he can be found-is likely to be spotted in Yenching Palace doting on thrice-cooked-pork and kimchee (Korean pickle).

Our moveable oriental feast began at Golden Palace, a nice place to start; experts think it's tops. Dinner started with baked crab with chili and black bean sauce. The crab is baked in the sheU, and eaten with the hands. Glorious flavor, and there's always a napkin for your hands. Soup followed, a slightly thick egg drop base with chunks of crab, lobster, bean threads, Chinese cabbage, turkey and pOrk bits ... the medley retained autonomy in the delicate stock. Chicken in the pot (chicken and pearl onions caressed with ginger and oyster sauce) , fried rice noodles Harmoon style (rice noodles pork, chicken and shrimp) and Hawaiian Beef followed .

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This Vietnamese restaurant has been open since last September. It is probably one of the more elegant oriental establishments around, occupying a lavish velvet and paneled room off the lobby of the Wellington Hotel. The food is Vietnamese with elegant continental entrees for those whose palates are timid.

Late of Saigon, N. N. Linh and his wife run the show here, and they do a marvelous job of it.

Former Premier Marshall Ky dined there recently with Senator and Mrs. Mark Hatfield. The restaurant is quickly catching on and after one visit, you will know why.

The dishes that follow are on the menu, but the food is definitely different; entrees are more spicy and less starchy than Chinese counterparts.

Cha Gio Imperial rolls are a lovely start.

The closest thing to them is egg rolls, but there is a world of difference between the two. The thin rice paper crust is light and not greasy, and it encloses a savory mixture of shrimp, pqrk, and bean sprouts, to name a few ingredients.

The soups are unique. Pho Bo is a soup based on beef stock. Mr. Linh told me the bones are washed in whiskey before cooking to give the soup a more delicate flavor. Noodles and bit of beef swim through the delightful consomme.

Chao Tom is a delightful shrimp dish; shrimp puree is molded around a stick of sugar cane, which is fun to suck on whe n the shrimp is picked away. Shrimp Cam Ranh is marinated fresh shrimp in a spicy sauce-my partner's favorite.

Two barbecue meats were sampled as well. Bo Nuong Xa~eef spiced with lemon grass and 5-flavored spices. Heo Nuong G ha was barbecued pork-very tasty. Both these dishes were meant to be dipped in Nuok Mam -Vietnamese fish sauce. This sauce takes six months to prepare. The Linhs now use sauce from Thailand (Saigon sources may open again), and mix it with chicken broth, lemon juice and sugar. It's quite good.

Kowloon restaurant, downtown, was also sampled. Besides expertly serving Dim Sum at all hours (most places just serve it during lunchtime), it has some truly different dishes to offer. Shrimp in Paper is a delicious starter.

Shrimp, pork, bamboo shoots, and water chestnuts are formed in little balls and enclosed like a candy wrapper in rice paper, which is deep fried in soy oU. When served, it looks like a party-favor, all fluted and open at the top, and is very festive. You eat it all.

Fried flounder Kowloon Style is a favorite.

The fish is fried, then steamed in black bean sauce and ginger with a bevy of vegetables like mushrooms, scallions, Chinese celery and pea pods perched on top-a wonderful choice.

Lemon Duck here is perhaps the best in town . Savory pieces of duck are lightly

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Teppan-Yaki room, where we took dinner, serves the most guests. Here the chef cooks to order steak , chicken , or shrimp over the center of your large table, which becomes a grill. David Iwata, our able chef, cooked the choices superbly for us. We had a wonderful egg custard soup, Chawan Mushi, to begin, and l recommend it highly. Chicken, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, shrimps and spring onions, are discovered in the porridge. It's a real treat. This restaurant is a good choice for people into natural foods.

A visit to Trudie Ball's Empress capped off our foray for elegant oriental food. The restaurant is decorated with traditional Chinese decorations; the ceiling is a lovely laquered soft green and red and Chinese lanterns hang down to illuminate the flocked walls.

Peter Ball , the owner' s good-looking son , chose an exceptional dinner for us.

We started with cold appetizers of those marvelous Chinese mushrooms, ham, and beef.

Then, Peking Duck. Peking Duck is served with Hosin sauce, and Peter showed us the Peking Duck Oven (it holds eighteen ducks), and explained the Empress serves its duck with the skin on for American tastes. Just ask, and they will serve it the more traditional way, skin first. The Empress' head chef used to serve Madame Chiang in Chun King.

Steak Kew, Szechuan scallops, and Sauteed Mandarin shrimp followed , accompanied by Wan Fu wine, a French graves made for Chinese restaurants. The scallops were by far our favorites. These are very hard 1 to cook just right, but they were perfect in their spicy sauce, highlighted with pork strips, water chestnuts and scallions. A wonderful dessert concluded this repast , Candy Bananas. The bananas are thickly coated with caramel sauce and rolled in sesame seeds, then plunged into ice water, so that candy is formed . . . fabulous.

Peter is also quite excited about the new extension of this fine place in Georgetown.

Called Trudie's, it Is scheduled to open 3030 M Street in late Spring. The menu will be a bit more limited, but seasonal fresh items will be highlighted. And the decor promises to be lush, contemporary and intimate.

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"Triangle" was the name given to the allmale university group that each year wrote, produced, performed and toured a vaudeville type revue throughout and beyond the Ivy-league circuit Those were the kind of remembered good times that four young grads could drink to and drink to and drink to.

Perhaps it was in the middle of a Dave Brubeck cut that one of them started drawing triangles on a house napkin . Anyway, two triangles melded into one hexagon and a round of Scotch and soda was ordered to commemorate what was about to become Washington's newest performing groupThe Hexagon Club.

According to one long-time Hexagon follower, watching those early shows was not unlike watching children romping on a playground. "The performers had far more fun than the audience, but it was fun watching them have fun ."

Perhaps because all the proceeds went to charity, Washington audiences forgave those early attempts to recapture undergraduate

glory days. And as it began to outgrow its pimples, the Hexagon Club started to produce shows that could stand up to the most critical evaluator of all-the person in the audience who was not related to a person on the stage.

As those productions shed the trappings of a Sigma Chi reunion, the directors of the all-volunteer group sought a new professionalism. They combed the Washington community for the " Rodgers", "Hammersteins' ', " Sondheims' ', " lerners" and "lowes" who would create, for pure fun and no profit, urbane, rib-splitting material for the club's annual shows.

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"There's a bit of Walter Mitty in all of us Hexagoners," says WMAl newscaster, Ed Meyer. Perhaps it's this "secret life" syndrome that has, over the years, encouraged people like Marvin Himmelfarb to write comedy instead of sa les copy; Jack Kauffmann to write starring sketches instead of Star editorials and COMSAT lawyer,

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Congressman Jim Symington (D-Missouri) and Walt Rostow have written songs for Hexagon shows. And GREAT GA TSBY, wouldn't F. Scott Fitzgerald have been the beaming papa if he could have seen daughter Scotty's sketches performed in some of the club's annual shows.

For many members past and present, the club's annual show presents a unique if exhausting opportunity to follow the smell of the greasepaint while at the same time enriching the coffers of the year's special charity.

This year's recipient is Second Genesis, a local drug rehabilitation program of which Betty Ford is Honorary Chairwoman.

During the six week period preceding the show, Hexagon members are dedicated to the point of being what one member describes as "hexomaniacal. " Dr. Jim McKnight, a Research Psychologist and this Year's Director might have a more accurate term to describe this dedication. Nevertheless, the fact remains ... a lot of people are Willing to donate a lot of time to insure the success of the annual show.

For newlyweds Rich and Fran Pullen, both lawyers at the FCC, being in the show Was more important than being alone together on a warm weather honeymoon . And the Pullens weren't the only ones to tum their backs on sun, sand and surf. Fran Schwartz, a stewardess for AMTRAK, took her vacation in the cold so that she could choreograph Hexagon's perennial show stopper, The Kick Chorus.

Talking with Hexagon members about their club is, not unkindly, like entering a 9Toup of zealous, first-time grandmothers.

Each of them carries a bulging scrapbook of Hexagon memories ready to be whipped out at the first show of interest.

"Tell her the doctor story, Paula." At the Urging of NASA Astrophysicist, Paul Patterson, long-time member Paula Silbert related the Hexagon adventures of area Obstetrician, Dr. J. Roberts. " While he was onstage last year, Dr. Roberts' ' bleeper' ~tarted 'bleeping.' He rushed to the hospital In full costume in time to deliver twins. The new mother was doubtless very impressed that he' d cared enough to wear lipstick r?uge, mascara and eyeshadow for the occa~on ." No one could recall whether Dr. "-Oberts was present when 300 pound Mar9ot shimmied so hard in her burlesque nurnber that she fainted when it was over.

Mlynn Chvotkin, a Speech Pathologist in ontgomery County, has special memories ~f that burlesque number because she played anne Foxe. She needed little encourage~ent to grind back into the character that had rought the house down last year.

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One of Lynn's young students attended a performance with her parents and the next morning dutifully related the details to her "show and tell" group. "I saw Mrs. Chvotkin last night. She sang and danced and took off her clothes in front of a whole lot of people."

"It would have been alright," moaned Lynn, "if my supervisor hadn't picked that morning to give me my tenure observation."

Several years ago the Hexagoners did a spoof on Tricia Nixon.路 A blonde poseur sat primly on a swing wearing what Tricia might have worn for swinging and sang: ' 'I'm Tricia the Princess And everybody winces each time I open my mouth .. ."

One evening Tricia came to see herself spoofed and, according to "plants" in the audience, laughed and enjoyed the show.

Afterward, when reporters queried her about the program, she's alleged to have sniffed, " I didn't think it was very funny at all." " Old timers" still recall how hard they worked to get the bathrooms in the Trinity Theatre "first girl" clean. "And she didn't use the restrooms once!"

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"Whatever the cost, it's a cheap, cheap price 'Cause there's no team worse than the 'Caps' on ice."

Still fresh from their rehearsal of Ted Shepherd's CAPITAL LULLABYE with Music Director, Broc k Hol mes, members of the chorus still had enough voice left to treat their visitor to a hit parade of songs and sketches from shows past. Everyone got into the spirit of "Render Unto Caesar", a song about the IRS ... Pierre L'Enfant designing Washington while drunk . . . The Redskins under Coach Lombardy and a "tormenting lament" about two star-crossed lovers in a People's Drug Store.

If you measure success by the laughing heart, last month's production, " Barbs and Snipes Forever," was a howling success. And the 70 Washingtonians who made this glittering confection possible don't regret one moment of the 8, 750 collective hours of rehearsal time it took to bring it off.

Whatever the disparate reasons behind their dedication and hard work, club members will always remember the Princeton Grad who crossed two triangles and got a hexagon on a napkin in a Georgetown bar. ooo

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The very act of publishing that story titled "Chappaquidick + S" also marked the end of the media' s willing participation in that coverup.

So comes this book as a further embellishment. It lays an egg not so much because it is not earnest well written, adroit and certainly incisive in uncovering discrepancies in the orchestration of this travesty, but because its full impact could only have been felt in the environment in which it first appeared.

Moreover, the expansion only weakens the argument. Sherrill detests the Kennedys, especially the earlier ones, father Joe, John and Robert. He rails against their lack of scruples, their money and their ability to change ideology to suit the political winds.

Mostly, he detests them because they are not true liberals. They're too friendly toward big business. John is a near fascist, a militarist His interest in civil rights is a sham. Bobby is far more cozy in the mold of Joe McCarthy, developing his vaunted interest in the underpriviliged only to seek higher office.

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Indignation and idealogy. It rolls over these pages like hot lava, smothering everything, l n~luding the central mo ral question that Tn!ght have been the objective of the book in ~e first place. Perhaps that is the inevitable ~te of the Kennedys' ; this inability to be V!~~ed with dispassion and neutrality.

The Last Kennedy" is an expansion of ~r. Sherrill's article which appeared in the ew York Times Magazine section on July 1 4, 1974. The article was a publishing milestone, marking the end of media guilt con~erning the Chappaquidick affair. It focused otal attention, for the first time, on the laugha~le, obvious manipulations to cover up and Tn!scarry justice in an effort to preserve the

And especially early in the book, Teddy is a boob, a product of his bright staffs manipulations, who "can kill somebody under mysterious circumstances and still regularly receive more than 40 percent of the support in Presidential preference polls." Now that's indignation for you.

The oddest thing about the book is the way it is constructed. The first part is a diatribe against all political Kennedys, principally, it seems, for ideological reasons. The middle part is the Chappaquidick analysis, the flaws and obfuscations, the unanswered questions, the coverup, largely as it appeared in the Times article.

But the last part, the strangest of all, deals with post Chappaquidick and its effect upon " The Last Kennedy." Sherrill actually begins to pin a rose on Teddy's lapel; how he has grown, how he is outgrowing his late brother, the President. He reprints portions of Sen. Kennedy's speeches; incongruous in such a thin book. Sherrill seems almost gleeful.

Kennedy is now saying the things that he would have wished the other Kennedys might have said. Teddy is opposing the Vietnam war. Teddy supports the May Day protesters. Teddy is now on the side of Sherrill's angels.

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The last paragraph is a monument to cynicism, destroying the book's credibility completely. Here Sherrill proves he is a prisoner of his own idealogy. " ... Teddy alone held his big mistake to the personal level. No Bay of Pigs, missile crisis, Vietnam buildup, horrible court appointments. He didn't ask the nation to gamble lives, and lose, as Jack did; he didn't shuffle justice for political advantage as Robert did. Teddy didn't. .. or at least hasn' t yet ... asked anybody to bankroll his ego.

His kind of mistake, though unappealing indeed, we can stand. Their kinds of mistakes we couldn't."

Nice words for a man that, earlier in the book, Sherrill called a killer. Does that mean it's okay if you're a killer as long as you make the "right" political decisions?

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image clean. Anderson has borrowed almost all of the character actors from Watergate including a meathead who enjoys getting the dirty scoop on rising politicians and who fantasizes about being the head of the CIA. The idea of recasting the Watergate baddies in this new role might have been an interesting brainstorm, but they' re all suffering from the typecasting of their last flick.

Also, the principal character is missing probably skulking in a chinese restaurant in La Jolla.

Anderson is a good, fast paced story teller With a clever ear for the kind of dialogue People in the boonies think might come out of the mouths of politicos, Watergate tapes notWithstanding. The basic problem of the book is the lack of characterization which doesn' t mean that you couldn' t have fun figuring out Who is supposed to be who. There are a lot of Pithy adlibs and asides for Washington insid~rs who really know where Anderson is aimmg his stilleto.

If you can pick up his code, you can have a few hours fun with The President' s Mistress, Which is what the President in Anderson' s book managed to do.

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by John Alexander (Washingtonian Books $3.95) ' Come, throw aside your political, diplomatic and social cares! For a short while, at least, you can be charmed and distracted by this off-beat little book: GHOSTS t-1r. Alexander has collected, affectionately a~d with great good humor, some seventy Vtgnettes of Washington's most famous ghosts. It is a pleasure to report to you that in contrast to some of the more recent skeletons in our Washington closets, none of the ghosts ~escribed here is terribly evil or malignant. ndeed, some of them may have to be dis~ounted as being too benign. However, un ess your tastes run toward the really grueSOme in tales of the supernatural, you are sure to enjoy being introduced to these denizens of our city who so assiduously cling to residence here.

There are spirits here for every taste: slighted lovers, disinterested loved-ones, duelists, adulterers, disappointed and disillusioned Politicians and statesmen, neglected wives, ~n~ a crotchety "fearfully wicked" Marine. t-.1hts reviewer's favorite is the " Ghost of the . Urdered Madam, " a short tale encompas~tng slavery, miscegnation, a disgruntled over, the 'primrose path' and finally, murder! h' GHOSTS is a painless way to learn some tstory and at the some time enhance your ~~t enjoyment of the city. After reading it, it be路 be hard to cross Lafayette Square without b tng aware of those who were there long efore you and may, perhaps, be there still.

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flowers shipped in from Hawaii and South America, and drinking and picking at the fabulous champagne and spread. " You could eat yourself to death ," said one guest-"An oral orgy," said another. There was lamb, salmon, round of beef, turkeys, 1,000 Alaskan King Crab claws, 1,000 shrimp, 500 clams, 1,100 oysters, cheese and pate, strawberries galore and, more importantly, the Embassy staff prepared their specialty, Moroccan cous cous.

Deena Clark showed up looking svelte and elegant in black and saying that she's "staying out of trouble." Melody Gilsey sans hubby looking tres chic in a long kelly green sequin number with a plunging neckline to the waist. The diplomatic corps was represented by several members among whom were Austrian Ambassador and Mrs. Halusa, and Ambassador Vazquez from Argentina.

Guests at the Canadian Embassy's fete included Mrs. C. David Hinton, Chairman of the Performing Arts Ball, Co-Chairman Mrs. David Loewenstein Ill and Chairman of the Women's Committee, Mrs. George C. Denby.

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One of the funniest slips of the tongue this season happened to Antoinette Clark. Her Valentine's Day party was to be an ''Art Deco Affair'' and somehow ended up being an ''Art Decadent" party. (The slip, by the way, was not her's.)

The bash was held in Antoinette 's orangerie. Miniature doves, both live and artificial decorated the orange trees and peacock feathers were everywhere. "She has a passion for peacock feathers," according to her escort for the evening, John Steinberg.

All guests were required to wear red in honor of St. Valentine and most of the guests complied. Diane O'Callaghan wore a red turban trimmed in peacock feathers. Sandy Grace showed up in a Neiman-Marcus original. The most appropriate outfit of the evening went to Edward Platt who wore red silk pajamas dotted with hearts, by Alexander Shields of New York-now, that's decadent!

Everyone was singing the praises of Chairman Mrs. Samuel Zola and Hostess Mrs. Abe Pollio for an introduction to the Wolf Trappers evening. About 70 Washingtonians gathered at the Pollin home to support the coming Wolf Trap season and sample a little cocktail buffet. Munching on a fabulous spread of: chicken proscuitto, steak teriyaki, coquilles St. Jacques, veal in lemon butter and mocha mousse were: Deputy of Defense and Mrs. William Perry Clements Jr. , Mr. and Mrs. Philip Buchen, both Leo and Norman Bernstein and wives, and, star of the evening,Ms.Beverly Sills. ooo

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If you find yourself on Pennsylvania Avenue between Georgetown and the White House, look around for 212:!1-. This is the Franz Bader Gallery and it's been in situ for such a long time that the owner and namesake has taken on the appearance of a s.age. Badar was among the first, perhaps the first, to show abstract art commercially in Washington-a risky business even today.

He has given care and comfort to numbers of local artists and has fostered the careers of several who have made it big. Notable is Peter Milton, one of the most sought-after of contemporary American printrnakers. Milton, ~ho once taught at the Maryland Art Institute m Baltimore, benefited from Bader's zeal and ha~ maintained the association to this day. ln~tdentally, if you had bought some of the Mtlton prints when first shown by Bader, you Would be pleased to note their rise in value, in some instances several hundred percent.

With this in mind, you might want to take a 1ook at some of Bader's newcomers. Try the etchings of Mark Leithauser, a young artist ~h~ works in the display department of the ~bona! Gallery; his impeccable craftsmanshtp, sensitivity, and wit suggest a winner.

Letthauser's etchings sell for around $125.00.

L When next you' re in Georgetown, visit the un? Gallery at 3234 P Street NW. Harry Won t be there, off to Europe again in search ~~~ore of that fine stock. Yes, Lunn is part of e International art market and sometimes Publishes portfolios of prints and photographs that have great artistic merit and deserved cache.

K On.a visit the other day, I found some rare andmsky prints on the office wall and a ~ple~did selection of Lewis Baltz photographs . n Vtew in the gallery. Lunn has been a force tn making photography artistically (and ~omrnercially) a ppealing. Ansel Adams , h rassai, Julia Cameron, Walker Evans and a !host of other fine photographers have shown B ere. Bernice Abbott is on the way in April.

Wi~~ Lun~ hasn't forgotten the print. There be Mtlton Averys to see later in the sea~?n , and there is a well-selected stock of twenLeth century masters . Ask for Louis fzhowick, a printmaker who caught the spirit 0 t e 1920s and 30s. But you must ask. lunn has been a supporter of a number of Yo~ng artists whose prints and drawings are Penodically on view. Ask Mauritzia to show ~~u ~raWings and small paintings of Michael ar ; drawings of Kevin MacDonald· and d raw· ' W tngs and prints of Jim Sundquist. g ~11. these are only a few of the many 11enes where one might begin. There are gi an~ others. But the point is to make a beVi~nt7g: get you to a gallery; realize that the a u~ arts sustain and enliven one; and have Pnnt or drawing for your very own. o o o

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MARVELlA'S "INFO" ON MOROCCO: At a recent native dinner at the Embassy of Morocco of pigeon pie and the best co us co us this side of the Atlantic, Mrs. Birch Bayh, whose husband was off campaigning, impressed the assemblage with her knowledge.

She said in this Bicentennial year that on a recent trip to Morocco, Ambassador Abdelhadi Boutaleb gave her a copy of a letter sent by George Washington to Sidi Muhammad Ibn Abdullah, Sultan of Morocco, thanking him for recognizing the United States after our revolution. Said Marvellah "The French were the first, and Morocco the second, to recognize our fledgling country and Morocco and the United States have always been friends."

The Kuwait Embassy was aglow on their national day recently. That new concept in embassy buildings was designed by Van Fossen Schwab, a Baltimore architect. It is rich with hand made wood screening made of 27,000 pieces of walnut, has a center courtyard that serves as a ball room with high ceilings, and a big tiled fountain. It also has a "harem room," jokingly referred to as the seduction room by Washingtonians. It is said that its dark paneling and furnishings date from the days of the Omayyed Dynasty in Syria circa 975. Newly arrived Ambassador Khalld Jaffar, and his wife, greeted guests in the entrance hall resplendent in flowing gold embroidered native robes and head dress. ooo

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a couple of pounds. Reese, who is built on generous lines himself, has shifted his group sessions from Monday evenings to Tuesday mornings for an invited few .

Becky Rogers, whose Congressman husband Paul is Chairman of the House Health subcommittee, rates a gold star. She walks to and from her home to Augusto Martin's exercise studio where she has not missed her once-a-week class since last September. Barbara Eagleton, Jean-Mayertrained nutritionist. Johanna Roth, Rhea Chiles, and Ford campaign stalwart Doris Post also belly up regularly at Martin's bar.

MLynda Robb' s favorite exercise guru is eg Augustine of McLean. Exercise and ballet bar teachers Barbara Coburn, Sonia Peterson and Carolyn Gichner have their f~ns too. Barbara Laird shapes up at the Y' s shmnastics class. NBC's Deena Clark swims at the Watergate pool while Patti Cavin and Peg LeBaron do their lengths at St. Albans P0ol and Presidential counsel Phil Buchen SWims daily at the University Club.

S Then there is Yoga and founding mother . avitra Ahuja who started Hatha Yoga on Its way in Washington 15 years"ago. Jane ~Uskie, Virginia Glover, Ervie Rooney, ate Quesada, Nancy Ferris and Vir~inia Daly patronize classes she teaches six yays a week, night and day. The big news in . oga, says Savitra, is that more men are gettin~ converted aU the time. Bitsy Folger, ~nter Grace Halsell, Margot Davis and oily Miles swear by blonde, soft-spoken Alexandra Gignoux. Others travel to sub~rban Maryland to take yoga with Pakistaniern Irene Raza. Alice Bralove who teaches ballet at the Washington School of Ballet sings the praises of Slta Frankel who comes down from Harriman , New York every Tuesday and Wednesday to teach yoga at the YWCA. B Michelle Metrinko and Rose Marie ogley watch their diets too but get their exercise riding to hounds in Virginia. As for ~nless you play with President Ford at t ~rnmg Tree, forget it. As any tennis buff will e You, 18 holes of ordinary golf played from a ~If cart uses up no more calories than 30 rnmutes of playing the cello.

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Shouldn't l6uBe aStatesman?