THE CAPITAL: Battle of the Billygoats

Hostesses who play the old Washington society game of inviting mutual enemies to the same party seldom stir up anything more exciting than pointed remarks and a few hard looks. But Miss Louise Tinsley Steinman, 27, daughter of Publisher J. Hale Steinman of Lancaster, Pa., got sensational results in the game last week. She asked both Columnist Drew Pearson and his mortal enemy Senator Joe McCarthy to a little dinner she was giving at the fashionable Sulgrave Club.

Both guests had been hating each other at a distance for some timeĀ—Pearson because of McCarthy's character-daubing attacks on people Pearson likes,...

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