"A Notable Representation"

By radio telephone from the French Liner Liberte, at sea last week, Eugene Meyer's Washington Post got an exclusive social tidbit: "Perle Mesta, American minister to Luxembourg and Washington's famous partygiver, starred as a guest at a party . . . She was guest of honor at the captain's table . . . [and] proved that she could 'take' as well as 'give' parties amiably." The Post's alert shipboard correspondent went on to prove himself a master of society-page cliches: the passengers, "a notable representation of the diplomatic, political and social elite of two continents," had been "enchanted" with the "charm with which the capital long has been familiar." She was "easily the 'personage' of the voyage." The Post's society editor slapped a two-column box around the dispatch and at the bottom ran a rewarding byline for its correspondent: "EUGENE MEYER, Post Reporter."

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