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What Is Cooking. Juliana did as well at captivating Washington correspondents. "It must be wonderful sport," she said at a Statler Hotel luncheon with press, radio & television reporters, "to contradict each other. You are interested in the kitchen of the world—you want to find out what is cooking . . . who has a finger in the pie and who will burn his finger." But her interview with Washington newshens seemed to leave her slightly appalled. "My God," she murmured, as she looked at one of a sheaf of written questions which had been submitted. She had been asked if her 14-year-old daughter, Beatrix, had started going out with boys. Recovering, she answered that in Holland boys were just a nuisance to girls at that age. Then she asked unbelievingly: Did American girls go out with boys at 14? A reporter replied: "Not all of them."
At week's end, still looking fresh and energetic, the Queen set out for an overnight visit with her old friend, Eleanor Roosevelt, at Hyde Park, stopping en route for a two-hour tour of Philadelphia and an appearance at the 300th anniversary of Dutch-founded Kingston (pop. 28,817), N.Y. This week the royal couple motored down to see what had happened to another Dutch settlement, New Amsterdam. The big city made it plain that it enjoyed seeing the Queen too: a quarter-million people cheered her as she rode up lower Broadway to be welcomed at City Hall; the applause went warmly on at dinners and public appearances during her visit. In its quest for good will, The Netherlands had made no mistake in sending Juliana back to the New World.