The Press: D.C. Diarist

In Washington, Society Columnist Evelyn Peyton Gordon of the Daily News is read by almost everyone from ambassador to upstairs maid. They all count on Evie for the latest tidbits about the most-dropped names in town. Last week Evie let her readers in on something that had happened to Evie herself. She was about to go down the reception line at a White House party when she remembered an unpleasant rumor that had gone the rounds. Was it true, she asked Mamie Eisenhower's Secretary Mary Jane McCaffree, that there was a new ban against working reporters' going through the receiving line?...

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