On their soth wedding anniversary, celebrated on the French Riviera, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill received the attentions of an esteeming world: telegrams and letters (from the Queen, the Prime Minister, the President of the U.S.), hampers of flowers, a gallon of 119-year-old cognac, a 25-lb. chocolate cigar. The day was quiet, with a few champagne toasts on the villa terrace; but, as the New York Times editorialized, it was "still another great day in a life that has known much greatness."

Lawyer Edgar Eisenhower and Major General Louis W. Truman, the new commandant of Washington's Fort Lewis, met for the first time, paired off as golfing partners in Tacoma, were calling each other "Edgar" and "Louie" by the time they stepped onto the first green. When Truman was asked about his relationship with the former president, he said: "We're cousins." Ike's brother could empathize. "In that case, Louie, I suppose you've got the same kind of problem I have." Said Truman: "I think yours is worse than mine."

Docking in Los Angeles after a voyage from Hong Kong with his fourth wife, Chinese-American Kay Ling, 45, Musical Comedy Composer Rudolf (The Vagabond King) Friml, 73, sniffed: "We were in London last spring and attended My Fair Lady. I was nonplused. It was a terrible thing. I couldn't sit through it. I just walked out."

Meeting baseball writers as a group for the first time since his paralyzing auto accident last January, Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella spoke with undiminished spirit through a microphone suspended from his neck brace. Over the previous weekend, he had been home for the first time with his wife and children, and it was "the best medicine I've had." At Manhattan's N.Y.U.-Bellevue Medical Center, his daily routine includes lifting 17-lb. sandbags, breathing oxygen to help his respiration and speech. "I can feed myself," he boasted, "and that's a big thing. You hate to have someone feed you."

The Army ordered Private Elvis Presley to West Germany as a truck driver.

Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voellcer, who as Robert Traver wrote the fictional bestselling Anatomy of a Murder, likes an occasional sauna bath with his Finnish neighbors, deplores meddlers who interfere with the harmless customs of free citizens. Last week, writing the opinion for a decision exonerating four nudists, Justice Voelker--who is privately "revolted" by nudism--went after some offensive cops. Four carloads of flatfeet had raided the nudists' camp, "descending upon these unsuspecting souls like storm troopers, herding them before clicking cameras like plucked chickens." It was "indecent--indeed the one big indecency we can find in this whole case," and the "final irony" came when a warrant was sworn out that one of the cops was "the aggrieved victim of an indecent exposure. It seems that we are now prepared to burn down the house of constitutional safeguards in order to roast a few nudists. I will have none of it."

A bit low-slung in a two-tone, 1929-style swim suit, Marilyn Monroe skipped out of the Pacific in a scene from her new film, Some Like It Hot. There was some discussion about her taking off a few pounds, but Marilyn firmly declined. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon wear women's clothes in several sequences in Hot, and "you want your audience to be able to distinguish me from Tony and Jack," Marilyn said. "Besides, my husband likes me plump."

Said Mississippi's Democratic Senator James O. Eastland: "Thank God for your country and for your leadership." Speaking on the same occasion was Indiana Republican Senator William E. Jenner, who said he knew "how important it is for a national leader to really lead and not just drift. I can appreciate how lucky you have been." The occasion: a joint session of the Dominican Republic Legislature of Dictator Rafael Trujillo.

Using an 1803 Army Engineers' map, the National Park Service excavated the parade ground in Baltimore's Fort Mc-Henry, made some progress on one of history's minor problems: as British warships fired on the fort in 1814, Francis Scott Key had marveled at the carmine traceries of novel Congreve rockets, noted everything but the exact location of the star-spangled banner. The Park Service dug up the big, hand-hewn supporting-brace timbers that kept Key's inspiration so gallantly streaming.

The municipal government of Genoa announced the 1958 winner of the $8,000 Christopher Columbus international communications prize: William R. Anderson, skipper of the U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus. 1957 winner: Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover.

In Topeka, Kans., someone told Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson that he had been mentioned as vicepresidential or even presidential timber. Swiftly whittling the old political metaphor, Benson said. "I have been good timber for a whipping post," added, "I have no political ambitions. I am on leave from my [Mormon] church duties in leadership, and when the President gets through with my services I want to get back to them."

American Negro Singer Paul Robeson was made an honorary professor at the Moscow State Conservatory of Music.

At ceremonies in Rome, where she received an award for distinguished performances in the Italian theater, fiery, fiercely maternal Actress Anna Magnani posed with her polio-victim son, Luca Alessandrini, 15, in a stark, harshly lighted scene reminiscent of one of her own neo-realistic Italian movies.

U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon Maxwell Henry Gluck, who achieved sudden fame of a sort because he didn't know who was Prime Minister of Ceylon (he finally learned: Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike), decided to give it all up after twelve months at his post, prepared to return to ladies' wear retailing (Darling Stores Corp.) and horse breeding.

From the office of Richard Milhous Nixon came confirmation of reports that the Vice President's daughters, Patricia, 12, and Julie, 10, have shifted from Washington's Horace Mann Public Elementary School to the private Sidwell Friends School.

At a fashion show sponsored by Fleet wives in Newport. Mamie Eisenhower heard the narrator comment that "the sack is probably the only style that was completely wiped out because too many husbands said, 'I just won't let my wife wear it.' " Said Mamie wistfully: "She is so right."

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