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A t THE WASHINGTON YOS';l! Washington, D.C. April 28,,1962 esident: Macm111an Honored NEW Y©RK RTIMS New York, New York April 28;, 1962 Giit'from Press E'iates . `5tatesman''Macmillan' Saadal te Th. N.. Yur! ?fine:. WASHINGTON, Ap,ril'2T- Prime. Minister Macmillan.n seemed momentarily, over- come tonight when he was presentedd with ann octagonali allvcr-wger-.bor-at the dinner of theWhiteHouse. oor- respondents and photog- raphers. Holding up in, admiration the cigar-filled model of' aColonial..tob'acco~box,made byVV-Rtam~~'DeM'SEteo, silver- smith of Cobnial. Williams- burgh, thePrime. Minister, saidt "I don't get anything.g like this from i the . press at' home." Referring too himself and President Kennedy; he went on: "In thiss lifee wee have ehosen; welre politicians wirle we're . alive, and . when we are dead we hope to become statesmen.. Triiscigarbox is worthy'of ..a.statesmanj and it Is'in thats spirit Ii will.liandit . on to mysucnecvors'• A replica of the Inkstand . used i at the. signing of the! Declaration of Independ~ encee and the. Constitutlonr, shown at left, was given to President Kennedy last night at the dinner of'White House corrnpond. By Phil Casey faaff aeoerMr . White House cotTespondents Sellers did one of , Macmillan. and photographers left their Actor Hirtnan Sherman was questions and their cameras master of ceremonies for a, at , home lYst night and gath-, show of well-known perform, ered to honor and heckle ers -Benny Goodman, Teddy President John F. Kennedy Wilson, Gwen Verdon, Bob and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at the Sher- aton-Park Hotel. I; was the annual White, House Press Dinner, hosted, jointly by the White Hotue' Correspond ie n t's Association and the White House News P h ot o graphers Association. About 1500 newsmen andltop- level Government and busi- aess guests attended the black- tie dinner. They gave the Ptesident a -replica of the inkstand usedi at the signinglof the,Declara- tion of,Independence and the Constitution. They gave the. Prime Minister a cigar box modeled on a colonial tobaccoo box_ The inkstand' Mr: Kennedy received will go with a pair; of si11•er copies of'the lAnternl that hung in the Gldi North Church in Boston on the ndght! of Paul Revere's ride. He wass given the lanterns Iast year. 6onor'Gaesta Impersonated Ador Elliott Reid imper sonated Mr.,Kennedy in a skit' and British oomedian Peter Fosse and Sally Ann flowes, rand a chorus wof singers aa: sembled by composer Richard Adler. New presidents inatalled'in- cluded: Robert Roth of the Philadelphia Bulletin, auo- ceding Wililtam H: Y_,Knighton Jr., of the Baltimore Sun, as president of the Correspoo- dents; Charles DelVecchio of'. The, Washington Post, suc. ceeding, Arthur V. Lodovl- chettil of UPI-Fox Movietone. News as president of the cameramen:. The correspondents and photographers also gave a watch to Joel Margolib, for- mer, manager of ' Loew's ' Cap:- itol Theater andI now busineai manager of the Washington Redskins, for producing and directing many of their an- nual shows:, Gastore eC F'riendship In his presentation of tha cigar box to the Prime Min- later, Knighton said the gift was appropriate not only b'e• cause, Macmillan likes cigars but because the glving' od tobacco has long been a sign of friendship. He quotedi from an 1gth. Century paper on tobacco by. Andrew Chatto; who declared that "above all other plantsd tobacco best deserves the name of' the 'peacermaldag herb:", "In quarrels between rdends;" Cbatto was quatK "the offer of a pinch of snuft' is generally the first step to- ward a reconciliation; a aail+ lor's enmity is soothed by a' couple of' inches of pigtail;, tbe,present of'a cigar, or,ther loan of a tobacco box,, oditen prevents the outbreak of an- gry feelings;,the North Amer- ican Indian buries his toma- hawk when he smokes the pipe of peace, and in Europe, eats and- photographers: The tobacco box ihe treaty which atilla the at right , was presented to prime Minister voice of war is eoncerted bp diplomats amid the friendly Harold Macmillan. Both~.gifta'.wene ereated 'interchange of snuff boxes-'In sterling silver by Master Silversmith The gifts to the two states- William deMatteo of WilUamsburg, Va. men were made by William Iiamsburg: deMatteo, 3&year.old' master silveramith of Colonial WII-