A mite miffed when woolly-mopped Pianist Van Cliburn begged out from their ceremonial dinner (reason: a prior engagement), the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce brooded once more, decided that Prodigy Van was not really one of the nation's ten outstanding young men of 1958 after all, instead named fresh-faced Crooner Pat Boone.

Sir Winston Churchill, whose major contribution to British tailoring was the blimp-skinned, zippered "siren suit" of World War II, came armed with an eye-grabbing gimmick to a London performance of daughter Sarah in the title role of Peter Pan. The fist-warming addition to Churchilliana: a beaver muff.

Coming clean with the revehooers. Comedian-in-Exile Charlie Chaplin anted up $425,000 at an out-of-court settlement on some $700,000 in back taxes owed the U.S. Government. Uncommonly gleeful at the windfall, taxmen explained why: had Charlie, safe in Switzerland from the law's clutch, refused to pay up, the Feds' only out would have been to sling a legal hammer lock on his assets left in the States --and a careful search had failed to uncover a penny's worth of hockable loot.

General of the Army George Catlett Marshall turned 78, celebrated the day at home in Pinehurst. N.C. with family and a few friends, including Manhattan Banker Robert A. Lovett, who succeeded him as Secretary of Defense in 1951. From Gettysburg a brace of presidential aides brought a message from a wartime comrade-in-arms: "Mrs. Eisenhower joins me in best wishes to you and Mrs. Marshall for a fine new year and in affectionate regards." From nearby Fort Bragg, the band of the rugged 82nd Airborne Division marched in for a brief serenade. But frail, weary Old Soldier Marshall, although heartened by the tributes, stayed bedridden. Explained a friend: "The general has just worn himself out."

In Chicago, lawyers filed for probate the will of Ada Foote Wrigley, who died three weeks ago at about 90 (TIME, Dec. 29, 1958) after spending the last eleven years of her life in a coma. Left by the widow of Gumogul William Wrigley Jr.: $1,500,000, to be placed in trust for five grandchildren--plus the trusteeship of Wrigley's vast (about $40 million) estate, which will now be divided among his two children (Philip Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, and Dorothy Wrigley Offield), one son-in-law, two grandchildren.

Not quite a year after his 22-year career as a homer-hammering catcher ended in a Long Island auto accident (TIME, Feb. 10, 1958), Old Dodger Roy Campanella was back in baseball. His new job, at an estimated $25,000 a year: assistant supervisor of scouting for Los Angeles in the eastern part of the U.S.. and special coach at the Bums' spring training camp at Vero Beach. Fla.

In Manhattan, Method Actress Kim (The Goddess) Stanley, a whiz at playing emotionally unstrung doxies, let the world know that despite the absence of one parental name on the birth certificate of her two-year-old daughter. Laurie Rachel Conway. the tyke has a father. In asking a court to provide a new birth certificate for Laurie, born 6 1/2, months after Kim's divorce from her second husband, Actor Curt Conway, mother Stanley boldly named the party of the second part: Actor Alfred Ryder, who married her last August, submitted an affidavit of parenthood with his wife's request.

Bouncing through the sage on the Arkansas cattle barony of Winthrop Rockefeller, ten-year-old Millionheir Winthrop Jr. tumbled out of his tiny motorized wagon, broke his right leg. In Manhattan, mother Bobo wailed maternally, said of her son's visits to her ex-husband's home on the range: "Something happens every time he goes there. The last time, he fell on his head."

Bearded for a rare interview in his Cambridge digs, elderly (80 last week) Litterateur E. M. (for Edward Morgan) Forster, whose last novel. A Passage to India, saw print 35 years ago, confessed that he was not up on the current product ("I don't read novels a great deal nowadays"), but held no animus against Britain's young Angries: "I don't feel the least hostile to young people or bothered about them. I don't understand them, but when I was young, people didn't understand me. It's a perfectly natural process."

Kicking such front-running perennials as the Duchess of Windsor and Mrs. William Paley (wife of CBS' board chairman) upstairs to a new "Hall of Fame," because their "faultless taste in dress, without ostentation or extravagance, places them above annual comparison," the New York Dress Institute announced its latest list of best-togged ladies, settled on a tie for first. Co-winners: sporty Manhattan Socialite Mrs. Winston ("Cee-Zee") Guest, Roman Socialite Countess Rodolfo Crespi, in her deb days plain Consuelo O'Connor of Manhattan, who modeled one of her title-earning, high-waisted high styles, suitable for formal balls or. in a pinch, campsite tenting.

For duty done for crown and country, Queen Elizabeth II bestowed royal favor in the New Year Honors List on some 2,000 loyal subjects, ranging from envoys to drovers. Among the cited: Cinemactor Alec (The Horse's Mouth) Guinness, dubbed Sir Alec; Novelist-Newshen Rebecca (The Meaning of Treason) West, named Dame Commander Order of the British Empire, distaff equivalent of knighthood; Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Harold Caccia, Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George; Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis, chosen for the selective (limited to 24 living members) Order of Merit; Auto Racer Stirling Moss, Order of the British Empire; Auto Magnate (Hillman) Sir William Edward Rootes, upped from knight to baron.

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