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Silent on her peak outside London town, blonde, swivel-hipped Marilyn Monroe, who is scheduled to meet Queen Elizabeth at the annual "command performance" later this month, did not seem displeased when told that M-G-M is "very interested" in having her star in the studio's planned film version of Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Although nobody would take Marilyn seriously when she said a couple of years ago that she wanted to play Grushenka,*M-G-M said last week, "The part is hers, if she doesn't want half the studio to do it."

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On his first visit to Spencer, Ind., his American mother's home town (pop. 2,394), Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan gave a ten-minute talk from the pulpit of the Methodist Church his late mother used to attend as a girl, but when the plate was passed, the man who holds Britain's purse strings had to float a modest loan to raise enough U.S. currency for a contribution.

Traveling through Communist China, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, turned up at Taerh Monastery at Sining in the remote northwest, where he posed for pictures after discussing matters of mutual interest with two Living Buddhas, seven-year-old Achia, head of the monastery, and the equally youthful Saito.

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Lady Chatterley's Lover, the gamiest gamekeeper in literature, tried to squeeze into New York State in the form of a French film adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's famed novel, with French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux as Lady Chat-terly, but was kept out by the New York board of regents. Condemning the entire movie as "immoral" in theme, the board said the film "glorifies adultery," presenting it as a "desirable, acceptable and proper pattern of behavior."

After pleading that he was too sick to testify because of his heart condition, Manhattan's frog-voiced Gambler Frank Costello, 65, looked in perfect health when the Government's deportation case against the Italian-born racketeer was thrown out of court (because so much of the evidence was gathered through wire taps). "By the law of averages, I was bound to win this one," said Costello. Then he was led back to prison, where he recently began serving a five-year sentence for cheating the Government on taxes.

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While Harlow H. Curtice, 63, president of General Motors at $775,400 a year (take-home pay: $121,689), was being received in private audience by Pope Pius XII at Castel Gondolfo, Italy, his big brother LeRoy, 68, a G.M. paint and metal inspector, relaxed in his frame house in Lansing, Mich., happily anticipating his first $63 monthly company pension check after retirement. When kid brother Harlow retires in two years, his pension will come to about $68,000 a year. Said LeRoy: "I wouldn't want his job. Too many headaches. On that job your brain works 24 hours a day, even in your sleep."

In Paris, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau demonstrated that his talents are not limited to diplomacy when he published his third volume of fairy tales, L'Ourse aux Pattons Verts (The Lady Bear with the Little Green Paws), a group of stories about romantic princesses ready for marriage, fish that talk and a lady bear named Clementine, who is dedicated to an ancient Gallic ideal: liberty.

In the midst of his campaigning against Republican President Eisenhower, Democratic ex-President Harry S. Truman briefly switched from his give-'em-hell stance to his elder-statesman pose, announced: "The past President should be helpful to those who succeed him."

Looking somewhat like a younger edition of her celebrated mother, Jennie Ann (changed from Pia) Lindstrom, 17, blonde and shapely daughter of Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, enrolled as a freshman at the University of Colorado, undecided as to whether she should specialize in English literature or take a pre-law course. Cornered by reporters, Jennie Ann, only ten when her mother left her father and ran off to Europe with Italian Director Roberto Rossellini, firmly said: "Of course I get letters from my mother, and I plan to see her again, although I can't see why people should want to know about things like that."

*Dostoevsky's description: "There was a childlike look in her eyes ... It was that softness, that voluptuousness in her bodily movements, that catlike noiselessness. Yet it was a vigorous, ample body."

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