Word: washingtonians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Majesty's government, diplomatically resigned to the high cost of quenching Washingtonian thirst, hoisted the 1960 entertainment allowance of Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Harold Caccia by $9,548 to a liquid $94,864. Allowance of Millionaire John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's: a mere...
Nehru's visit had originally been planned for last summer but was postponed because of Ike's ileitis operation. Many a Washingtonian thought the new timing a good thing. For Nehru, who in the past has been tempted to juggle a diplomatic double standard of conduct, has come to Washington with the refreshed understanding that U.S. policy countenances no double standard...
...Democratic State Senator Al ("The Rose") Rosellini, 46, an ambitious and compulsively affable Washingtonian, who handed out artificial roses during his campaign, came out of his fight smelling like one. He defeated aging (66) Lieutenant Governor Emmett Anderson, who was the choice of Governor Art Langlie...
...many ways Langlie's exact opposite. Maggie Magnuson (who says privately of Langlie's piety: "We better watch that guy at Easter time") is a cigar-puffing, Cadillackadaisical, free-roaming bachelor. Like Langlie, he has a Scandinavian background. But there the similarity ceases. A Washingtonian who knows both sums up the difference: "Art Langlie is the right-living, stern-conscienced, Sunday-go-to-meeting Scandinavian. Maggie is the ever-loving, good-time-Charlie Scandinavian come out of the woods on Saturday night for fun and sociability and a yearning to spread joy. Langlie is the voice of political...
Actually, Evelyn Peyton Gordon can go through most Washington receiving lines on the basis of background alone. A fifth-generation Washingtonian, chic, fiftyish Evie attended schools all over the world, graduated from Manhattanville College, made her debut in Washington 28 years ago and has been a staunch cave dweller ever since. Starting as a society reporter for the Washington Post in 1927, she later moved to the tabloid News, where she decided to stay because "it was a small paper; they didn't have nine managing editors and all that nonsense." Because she is so popular, News editors...