GRIDIRON TO PRESS RUFFLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300060015-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: July 16, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POS
Approved For Release 'OTMESCV.DIPj-01315R0003
JUL 16 1966
Gridiron
To Press
Ruffles
FOR the first time in its
more than 90-year-history,
Washington's famous Grid-
iron Club dinner will drop
the stag tag for one night
only. Wives of . the news-
papermen who make up th$
club have been asked to
dinner a year from this
coming fall.
The future date with their
husbands is, Nov. 11, 1967,
and the place will be Col-
onial Williamsburg. All 600
at the dinner will stay over-
night in Williamsburg.
President Johnson has
been asked, to bring Mrs.
Johnson for the big fun-pok-
ing event of the year which
impales Government leaders
on the sharp wit of the
journalists in costumed skit
and song. -
LBJ, Democratic and Re-
publican leaders will be
lampowied, by the funma-
kers in wigs and knee
breeches.
Wives have ' one man to
thank for getting them in
on this big stag event. Wale
ter Trohan of t7 a Chicago
Tribune, has been trying for
years to get wives invited.
As chairman of the 1967
dinner, and probable pres.
ident of the club that year
too, he finally brought the
idea up for vote. All 159,
members were for it.
"Of course, we did hint
that any fellow who voted
against it would have to set-
tle with his own wife later,"
said Trohan with a chuckle.
In_ the past, wives have
heard the Gridiron songs at
a repeat performance the
night after the stag dinner.
But the reception for the
ladies has never included
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