Resting Comfortably

Tallulah Banlchead, the theater's pin wheel from Alabama, was "resting comfortably" with neuritis at a Chicago hospital; Private Lives closed down for a fortnight.

Helen Hayes had violent stomach trouble just before Happy Birthday's curtain time in Manhattan; play & star got together again after a one-day intermission.

Bing Crosby looked none too healthy in a photo from the wilds of Alberta, Canada--but it was mostly the usual depressed hat and the unusual beard. Hunter Crosby was dead tired after a day of shooting. His bag thus far: a moose, a bighorn sheep, and a mountain goat.

Herbert Hoover, back at his desk in Manhattan, was "well on the way to recovery" from shingles at 73.

Sitting Pretty

John Roosevelt's little-publicized wife, Anne, a honey-blonde, turned up in her evening clothes in a vanishing-cream ad, testifying: "Before I go out--always a 1-Minute Mask . . . my skin looks finer-textured--it looks clearer. And it feels wonderful! Smoother all over!"

Rita Hayworth, another beauty, finally got around to suing Wonder Boy Orson Welles for divorce, after four years of marriage, two of talkative kiss-&-make-up & goodbye-again.

Robbed: Sari Gabor ("Zsazsa") Hilton, emerald-eyed, diamond-bright Miss Hungary of 1936, estranged wife of Hotelman Conrad Hilton (New York's Plaza, Los Angeles' Town House, Chicago's Palmer House); in the mirrored boudoir of her Manhattan penthouse. Jewel-&-fur-bearing Mrs. Hilton (who once told tabloid reporters that unidentified villains had kept her in "continuous slumber" for six months with mysterious drugs) now reported to police that a tall stranger in a grey suit, fedora, pigskin gloves and dark glasses had tied her and her maid to a love seat and made off with her jewels. He first got Zsazsa out of bed in her black chiffon negligee, she said, and took the diamond ring, diamond bracelet and diamond necklace she had been sleeping in. Then he got the stuff off the night table, and the box full of diamond odds & ends on the floor under a chair. Zsazsa's estimate of the take: at least $500,000 worth. Police estimate: $150,000 at most.

Moving Fast

On Rongerik Atoll, "King" Juda of Bikini and his people prepared to move again. They had never quite understood why the U.S. Navy wanted their island; they were told it would be "something good for mankind," and so they agreed. Now, after a year and a half on smaller, less fertile Rongerik, they were ailing. So the Navy prepared Chapter Two in the Bikini odyssey. Juda and his people were to be shipped to Ujelang Atoll, 400 miles to the west. Ujelang, it was explained, was larger, more fertile. But what ailed Juda's people most was homesickness. "We want to go back to Bikini," they told officials. "We just want to go back."

In Queens, N.Y., the Archduke Franz Josef, 42-year-old grandnephew of Austria's late Emperor, paid a $25 fine in traffic court (for driving with bright lights in a dull-light zone)--after a bystander kindly lent him the $25.

In Zumikon, Switzerland, Leopold, exiled King of the Belgians, briefly rose from obscurity by giving his royal all to the rigors of the Swiss Golf Tournament, then settled down again with a beaker of something refreshing.

In Dublin, Queen Victoria and the Irish were nearly through with their decades of trading stony stares: the statue of her, right outside Parliament, was to be removed at last, to make space for a parking lot.

Queen Mary gave a matronly shove to a campaign to export ladies' handiwork (and thus import U.S. dollars) by contributing six flowery chair-covers which she had embroidered herself.

The Duke of Windsor was in London for a short visit, but the wedding to which he and the Duchess had not been invited was no longer a live issue; they now planned to find their fun in the U.S.

Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who used to belong to the Greek Orthodox Church, simplified things by joining the Church of England (now there would have to be only one wedding ceremony instead of two).

Princess Elizabeth, announced Buckingham Palace, would stick by the old wording in the Book of Common Prayer's marriage service. Others might now "cherish," but, future Queen or not, she would promise to "obey" her husband. And the details of the wedding cake were all set. It would be only a four-layer austerity affair, with a few decorative accents (Elizabeth's and Philip's crests, small reproductions of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral; little tableaux; a battle scene at Cape Matapan, some musical emblems, Cupid holding the bride's and groom's initials, the crest of the Royal Navy, the badges of the ATS and the Girl Guides, a representation of H.M.S. Valiant, the badges of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, India and Pakistan).

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