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highlight the young couple's association.
   "The bride is assistant curator of the Smithsonian's civil history division.  Klapthor is curator of the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum. They met while he, then a Smithsonian Museum Aid, was assisting her in designing the Institution's new White House Ladies Gallery.
   "The couple also met Mamie Eisenhower, whose pink inaugural gown was to be featured in the collection of First Ladies' dresses in the new hall, which opened last May.  Upon their marriage the couple received a telegram bearing the personal good wishes of the Eisenhowers.
   "Mrs. Klapthor told me the First Lady had visited the museum on several occasions and had been cooperative and generous in sending things down for use in the exhibit.  'She was especially interested in the collection of dresses and the backgrounds we were arranging for them,' Mrs. Klapthor added.  'It was one of those pleasant associations.'
   "The bride, who has written a book on 'Dresses of First Ladies of the White House' and a booklet on the First Ladies Hall, says her favorite dress in the collection is that worn by Harriet Lane, niece of James Buchanan and the bachelor president's official White House hostess.
   "A wedding gown of stiff white moire taffeta, it features a low round neckline, short sleeves and a billowing hoop skirt.  Mrs. Klapthor's own wedding gown bore a striking resemblance, but with a ballerina-length skirt."
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GONE TO PERU
  
   Dr. Marshall T. Newman, associate curator of the division of physical anthropology, left for Peru on March 16.  He will be gone until August 1.
   Dr. Newman will spend most of his time at Hacienda Vicos in north-central Peru, were he will study the local population.  Since the nutrition and hygiene of this population is undergoing rapid improvement, Dr. Newman hopes tp obtain a record of physiques that will serve as a base line for future observations.  There is good evidence that the human body responds to changes in environment but as yet the relation of food to physique is not clearly established.
   Dr. Newman's work is being financed by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Public Health Service.
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JUNIOR LEAGUE GUIDED TOURS
   On March 21, Dr. Carmichael and our Junior League chairman, Mrs. Robert Nelson, officially inaugurated guided tours in the First Ladies Hall.  This tour in the Arts & Industries Building is limited to students in the 5th and 6th grades.
   As with the popular tours of the American Indian Hall, this new History of America tour will be conducted by volunteers in the Junior League.  Tours must be arranged in advance by calling Mrs. Nelson, OL 4-1158, or the vice-chairman and docent, Mrs. Alexander Chilton, JE 3-8085.
   In addition to the above, the following Junior Leaguers