Monday, Aug. 06, 1956
Names make news. Last week these names made this news:
After the Soviet ship Pobeda sailed from Italy with some 400 homeward-bound U.S.S.R. tourists aboard, the Soviet embassy in Rome sprang a surprise: two of the sightseers, bustling incognita about the city's antiquities, had been a daughter of Nildta Khrushchev, Rada, and a daughter-in-law of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, Ina--a kind of junior ladies' division of the famous B. & K. traveling troupe. Neither lady's husband made the trip; Rada had prosaically explained: "My husband is just another Russian who works in Moscow. He could not get a vacation."
Sagging ex-Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis, 42, hit a new snag in his game effort to wrestle his way out of the red, pay off a mountainous $1,210,789 in federal income-tax arrears (TIME, May 14). Examined by an Illinois Athletic Commission doctor, Wrestler Joe was found to have a "cardiac contusion," i.e., damage to the outer layer of his heart, possibly suffered when, as Louis recalled, he cracked three left ribs in a recent grappling match in Ohio. Upshot of the diagnosis: Louis, if his disability proves permanent, can never again wrestle in Illinois, will probably be banned also in many other states taking notice of Illinois' action.
At their newly refurbished hideout on the Ionian isle of Corfu, Greece's King Paul and pert Queen Frederika entertained two neighbors with whom they were once not even on speaking terms. Their guests: Yugoslavia's Dictator Tito and his buxom mate Jovanka. Convoyed constantly and zealously by security-mad Greek cops, Frederika and Jovanka climbed into a tiny motorboat, Paul and Tito into another, raced each other along Corfu's waterfront. Ashore, hosts and guests buzzed about merrily in two M.G. sports cars, tops down, good will up.
A Roman court took pity on two children of Benito Mussolini, ruled that their health is too delicate for them to earn a living and awarded them pensions for life. Tubercular Jazz Pianist Romano Mussolini, 28 (TIME, Jan. 30), will get $112 a month; his sister Anna Maria, 27, partially crippled from a polio attack in childhood. $192 a month. The pair will not burden Italy's grandly evasive taxpayers; the support funds will come from their father's confiscated estate.
In darkest Africa, where the British introduced soccer along with other Anglo-Saxon blessings, one-shoed King Freddie of Buganda, leading a clutch of his chiefs, kicked off with his bare foot against a team of Britons calling themselves the Abagurusi (Senile Ones). Cantabrigian Freddie, 31, whose popularity forced the
British to restore him to his throne last year after a two-year exile, played valiantly, but he and his boys were edged by the agile Seniles, 2 to 0.
Like many another summer mother, Actress Ingrid Bergman turned temporary tennis instructor at her villa in Santa Marinella, Italy, showed the grips to Robertino, 6, and her four-year-old twins Isotta and Isabella. It has been more than seven years since Ingrid journeyed with Italy's Director Roberto Rossellini to the volcanic isle of Stromboli to make a movie of that name ("Raging island!
Raging passions!") and wound up pre senting little Robertino to Rossellini while still awaiting her divorce from Dr. Peter Lindstrom. In the current issue of Redbook magazine, Ingrid describes her "or deal" and defends her "selfish decision." "I've never been able to understand all the fuss. All right, I had a baby before I was married. It's not the first time that ever happened to a woman, and it's not the last . . . And if the two people love one another and marry, and if they have a happy family, isn't that what counts?" The week's bulletins on honeymooning Playwright Arthur Miller and Cinemac tress Marilyn Monroe: P: In Washington, the House, by a lop sided roll-call vote of 373 to 9, cited left-leaning Miller for contempt of Con gress for his refusal to unclam about form er Red buddies before the Un-American Activities Committee.
P: In London, Britain's Lord Chamberlain Roger Lumley, Earl of Scarbrough, offi cial censor of public stage plays, slapped a ban on Playwright Miller's latest one-acter, A View from the Bridge. "The play has a theme of incestuous love," ex plained Miller ruefully. "That got by all right, but the censor objected to a scene" in which two men embrace one another." P: Wife Marilyn was getting mixed no tices. From her old (69) acquaintance, Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, with whom La Monroe sipped gin and grapefruit juice, came a highbrow huzza: "She's quite remarkable!" But from the London News Chronicle's Fashionewshen Jean Soward came a Soho snarl. Ticking off Marilyn as a "fat frump," Jean com mented: "The most prominent thing about her is her spare tire. Lots of us have one, but most of us dress to disguise it." Re torted uncorseted Marilyn airily: "Any woman who dresses to please women is only fooling herself."
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