New Horizons

In Hollywood, Cinemactor Tyrone Power learned that he was about to receive a distinctly personal 3Qth-birthday gift: a life-size bronze nude (except for towel-draped hips) of his wife Linda Christian, who had posed for the statue last year in London while Power was busy making a picture.

One of the orders in the will of Showman Earl Carroll, who died four years ago in a plane crash in Pennsylvania, was finally carried out: a life-size bronze of a nude woman was placed over his tomb in Glendale, Calif.

At the University of Oregon, visiting Historian Arnold Toynbee took a tour of the campus, including the new bowling alleys. Hearing that he had never bowled, a professor's wife said: "You said in your History . . . that the rise and fall of civilization is based on a series of challenges and responses. Now here is a challenge. What is your response?" Said Toynbee: "I'll accept it," and promptly peeled off his coat. His first frame: a complete miss; the third: a clean strike. His reaction to the event: "I say, I think that was a good bit of fun. We must do it again."

In Jacksonville, Presidential Candidates Estes Kefauver and Richard Russell met unexpectedly while trying to harvest some votes during a quick tour of the same cigar factory. They carried off the encounter like true Southern Gentlemen. Russell: "Hello. Estes, I haven't seen you in a long time. How are you holding up?" Kefauver: "I'm fine, got a little sore throat in Cincinnati last night. Which side of the street are you working?" Russell: "I'm working both sides." "Be good, Dick." "You be the same, Estes." And with that, the candidates parted to look for less crowded hustings.

The entire town of Virginia City, Nev. and nearby residents were invited to be the saloon guests of onetime Manhattan Society Reporter Lucius Beebe and Author Charles Clegg. The occasion: their purchase and revival of the long-defunct old sagebrush weekly, The Territorial Enterprise, in which Mark Twain got his first byline in 1863. Among the new contributing staff: Walter Van Tilburg Clark and Bernard DeVoto.

Money Matters

After brooding over the unequal struggle between writers and tax collectors, A. P. Herbert, author, wit and longtime M.P., wrote a letter to the editor of the London Times: ". . . We sell capital and it is treated as income. The work of three years is taxed in one. We have a sudden success, after lean years, and soar into the regions where we are allowed to keep only a few shillings in every pound. Such a success cannot often be repeated . . . It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up in the tax race. If something is not done for us soon, we may no longer be disposed to try . . . The only work that gives me any real hope now is my weekly toil for the football pools. To this I devote increasing time and trouble, for any money I earn in this way will be free of tax . . ."

Billy Wallace, wealthy polo-playing friend of Princess Margaret, commissioned an artist to paint miniatures of him on six of his favorite ponies, then decided the pictures were "certainly attractive," but not worth more than six pounds ($16.80). The artist wanted 18 guineas ($53) and went to court. A Bournemouth judge ordered Wallace to pay the artist's price plus court costs.

The British Admiralty placed an order with a Clydebank shipyard for a new yacht for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. The new 380-ft. craft, which is expected to be finished in X953) will replace the obsolete 53-year-old royal yacht Victoria and Albert.

In London, the Prudential Assurance Co. announced that it had paid a $25.80 life-insurance claim to the estate of the late King George VI, who bought the policy in 1928 when he was the Duke of York. President of the Industrial Welfare Society at the time, he was interested in how low-rate insurance worked, bought a "penny policy" and faithfully kept up the penny-a-week premiums for the rest of his life.

Rosy Views

In Uvalde, Texas, Veep Alben Berkley called on ex-Veep John Nance Garner

for the first time in twelve years. After a barbecue picnic on the lawn, Barkley, 74, beamed tirelessly for the photographers and said, "Well, John, if they didn't ask for more pictures, we would know we were slipping." Host Garner, 83, smiled again. Yukio Ozaki, 93, onetime mayor of Tokyo, who sent the cherry trees to Washington-as a good will gesture some 40 years ago, surprised his doctors by getting up from his "deathbed" to sit on his veranda and write a little poem in memory of the gift. The poem:

As I gaze at cherry blossoms in my

garden

From my sickbed, I recall The Potomac in spring.

Former Democratic Boss James A. Farley, now chairman of the board of the Coca-Cola Export Corp., sailed from Manhattan to open a bottling plant in Cork, the first in the Irish Republic.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., recently named one of the world's best-dressed men, was asked to speak a few words to open the London tailoring exhibition. Sample of the words: "A generation drab in dress is drab in outlook." Tailors, he added, should strive for "restrained enterprise" in men's clothing. The sharp eyes of Savile Row cutters noted the speaker's own restraint: a double-breasted brown suit, cream shirt and frayed black tie (a relic of his days in U.S. Navy uniform).

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