That Old Feeling

Playwright George S. Kaufman, 59 (Of Thee I Sing, You Can't Take It with You), and British-born Actress Leueen MacGrath, 34, who played the friendly secretary in the Mayfair, Broadway and movie versions of Edward, My Son, applied for a marriage license in Doylestown, Pa.

Cinemagnate David O. Selzniclc, 47, who recently rented out his entire stable of stars, flew to Paris to join Cinemactress

Jennifer Jones, 30, whose contract ranks among his most valuable professional properties. Then they headed for the south of France to be married.

Actress Madeleine Carroll, 43 (Goodbye, My Fancy), was ready to go back to Paris to talk things over with third husband Henri Lavorel. "I hope for a settlement of our problems," she confided to a Manhattan gossip columnist, "but I want to reserve judgment until I see him."

Betty Farley, 26, slim blonde eldest of Politician Jim Farley's three children, set the date (June 9) and the place (St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City) for her wedding to Glenn Montgomery, 35, electrical engineer and wartime lieutenant colonel.

Actress Joyce Mathews, 27, who divorced Comedian Milton Berle, 40, two years ago, even though she rated him as "a swell person and a great artist," was rumored thinking of remarrying him. "Why don't you ask Milton?" said she to a nosy newsman. Said Milton: "Well, now, suppose I say maybe."

Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart, 41, who

has managed to duck matrimony through a full decade as Hollywood's "Most Eligible Bachelor," finally announced his engagement to Divorcee Gloria Hatrick McLean, 31, mother of two and onetime daughter-in-law of the late Evalyn Walsh ("Hope Diamond") McLean.

Women at Work

Veteran Stripper and sometime Litterateur Gypsy 'Rose Lee, currently touring the Midwest with her own girlie show in a carnival, discoursed on what it takes for success in stripteasing. "Brains! To go on year after year," said she, pointing to her forehead, "you got to have it up here."

Veteran Diplomat Vijaya Lakshm Pandit, sister of India's Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and first woman ambassador to the U.S., talked to newsmen about how to be realistic in diplomacy: "You can't rely on [just] words and promises."

Fanny Blankers-Koen, blonde Dutch housewife who has four Olympic gold medals and two kids of her own, stepped off the plane in New York, sought out a track where she could work the kinks out of her legs (she ran an all-star field into the ground at Los Angeles later in the week), got an unexpected welcome on her first trip to the U.S. from a swarm of eager little helpers at the track (see cut).

Edda Ciano, daughter of Mussolini and ranking prewar playgirl of Fascist Italy, was anticipating a tidy windfall: the U.S. Government was expected to release to her some $40,000 in royalties on her late husband's Ciano Diaries, now that the Italian government had decided it was all right for her to accept.

A Matter of Opinion

When you first go on a quiz show, "you feel smart, impeccable, confident," declared Cartoonist Al Capp (Li'l Abner), describing the queasy sensations of a television guest star. But "after 15 minutes of being asked the simplest questions to which you cannot give the simplest answers [your fellow contestants] aren't your friends, they're your mortal enemies --exposing your ignorance, shaming you by their faultless haberdashery . . . and their air of slightly nauseated pity . . ."

"Don't say I'm forsaking Christianity," urged Dizzy Gillespie, goateed high priest of bebop, announcing his conversion to Mohammedanism to Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Irv Kupcinet. "Christianity is forsaking me. Or better, people who claim to be Christians just ain't. It says in the Bible to love thy brethren but people don't practice what the Bible preaches ... I been studying the Koran myself. That's the Islam Bible, you know. Once I get converted, I can't drink, or eat pork."

Secret Service protection? Nonsense, snorted Vice President Alben Berkley, 71. "I'm a big boy now," he declared. "And besides, who would want to harm a young man like me?"

"The 25 Men Who Rule the World," Collier's brashly announced, in an article based on an informal poll of members of the Overseas Press Club, are the U.S.'s Harry Truman, Dean Acheson, Paul Hoffman, Walter Reuther and Douglas MacArthur; the U.S.S.R.'s Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov, Nikoli Bulganin and Lavrenty Beria; Britain's Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Winston Churchill; France's Jacques Duclos and Charles de Gaulle; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, China's Mao Tse-tung, Spain's Francisco Franco, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Israel's Chaim Weizmann, Jordan's King Abdullah, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, Argentina's Juan Peron, and Pope Pius XII.

Not at all, argued glib New York Post Home News Pundit Max Lerner, after studying the list. These 25 men might be the "movers and shakers, in the narrow sense of power. But they are not the men who rule the world . . ." Lerner, perhaps confusing influence with power, made his own list of the 25 who "really rule the world . . . the political, intellectual, and moral rulers . . .": Stalin, Churchill, Nehru, Pope Pius, Weizmann, Mao Tse-tung, Tito; and Physicist Albert Einstein, Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell; Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, Artist Pablo Picasso, Writers Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Scrtre and William Faulkner; Theologians Jacques Maritain, Karl Barth, Martin Buber, Albert Schweitzer and Reinhold Niebuhr; and, as a "moral symbol of the Western democratic creed, whom the whole world recognizes," Eleanor Roosevelt.

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