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When a man gets a crush on Rita Hayworth, he is sometimes in danger of carrying the thing too far. Twice-married Crooner Dick Haymes, 34, was in trouble with the U.S. Immigration Department because he followed thrice-married Rita to Hawaii last May. Possible punishment: deportation. A "neutral alien," born in Argentina (of Scottish-Irish parents), Haymes entered the U.S. in 1937. He forfeited his right to U.S. citizenship in 1944, the Government said, by claiming exemption from the draft, and thus re-entered the country illegally when he returned from his romantic pursuit of the rollicking Rita. A "technicality," retorted Haymes, who learned that both his estranged wife and Rita were, as the tabloids said, "ready to stand by him."

On the eve of his 79th birthday, and ready for more work ("Unending public chores seem to have become my privilege in life"), Herbert Hoover talked of his high hopes for the Federal Commission on the Reorganization of the Executive Branch, which he will head. Said he: "[Perhaps] the commission can contribute something to lessen what President Eisenhower has aptly described as our 'staggering economic burdens'. . . strengthen private enterprise, reduce the burdens of taxation, lessen bureaucratic tyranny over our citizens and generally improve the efficiency of our government."

While preparing his memoirs on his White House years for late 1954 publication in LIFE, Harry Truman turned out a little extra literary work on the side: the story of his readjustment to the life of an ordinary citizen for a series ("Mr. Citizen") to be published in Hearst's American Weekly. "Many people do not stop to think what happens to a man who has been President," Truman explained. "We believe that anybody can be President of the United States, and that when he is through, he can go back to being just anybody again ... I can't say that I feel exactly that way about it, but I admit that I may be somewhat prejudiced."

Veteran Pro Golfer Lloyd Mangrum

(see SPORT) gave off a loud pooh-pooh. All the talk about Ben Hogan being the world's greatest golfer "makes me a little sick," Mangrum said. He knew "half a dozen" pros who would "do just as well as Hogan if they could afford to pick their spots." He didn't want to "knock" Ben. but "it's a little ridiculous, all this notoriety." Said Hogan: "I don't answer things like that."

James Caesar Petrillo, the merry dictator of the American Federation of Musicians, was back from talks in Europe with some slightly revised opinions on foreign trade. Not only was he now willing to allow foreign orchestras to play in the U.S., but he might even reconsider his old opposition to foreign-pressed records. "If we stop foreign records coming here," he figured, "we stop our records going there. Then we lose." But, he added confidentially, "they got nothing to sell to the American people anyhow."

In New Orleans, Mrs. Francis Nixon, 68-year-old mother of Vice President Richard Nixon, was caught catnapping her way across the country by sitting up on a three-day and three-night train trip from California to Florida (where she will sell some property). "Of course, my sons wouldn't approve," she confided, "but I like to travel that way. You meet so many nice people in the coach."

Still lumbering about Europe before getting on with his African trip, Ernest Hemingway described his latest literary output to a Paris interviewer in the Ritz bar: "Been working steady for three years. Finished three books since Old Man and the Sea. Going to let them lie for a year and then go back over them again. Don't have any titles for any of them yet. I never select a title until the book is finished."

Two days after New York physicians told him he had cancer, the late Senator Robert Taft made out a will leaving his entire estate to his family: his personal effects to his invalid wife, Martha, as well as the income from two trust funds set up from the remainder of the estate--the first (49%) to be disposed of at her death as she sees fit, the second (51%) to be divided among the four Taft sons.

Composer Jean (Finlandia) Sibelius, 87, great bald eagle of symphonic music, was named winner of the first international Wihuri Foundation music award (after Millionaire Finnish Shipowner Antti Wihuri) for "promoting the spiritual and economic work of humanity." The $21,250 prize money, added to the generous lifetime annuity he gets from a grateful Finland, should keep him puffing his beloved cigars till the end of his days.

On his way to the trout streams of Banff and Jasper, Canada, Joe DiMaggio was asked if the presence of Marilyn Monroe, on location near Jasper, had anything to do with his fishing trip. Said he: "Purely coincidental ... Of course, if I can see my girl I shall."

Mrs. Perle Mesta, gadding about the Soviet Union, was full of nice things to say about her hosts. At a meeting of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow she was "pleasantly surprised to see so many women in politics," especially the "olive-skinned, slant-eyed, Oriental-looking women with long black braids." As for the Baku oilfields, they are "just terrific." Explained Perle (who inherited an oil fortune.): "They're larger than any I've ever seen in the United States ... It looks as though the oil is flowing freely."

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