In Washington to plug for a $50 million-a-year international medical-research bill (see MEDICINE), spry Boston Heart Specialist Dr. Paul Dudley White, 72, enchanted a Senate committee with a stethoscopic tour of Biblical history. "Heart disease," he said, "probably killed Adam." "I thought original sin killed Adam, Doctor," murmured Alabama's Lister Hill. White: "I believe that heart disease is our fault and not 'God's will.' " But what about Eve? asked West Virginia's Jennings Randolph. "Eve escaped," said White, warming to the topic. "Ladies have a great advantage with respect to coronary thrombosis. They do not get it until 50-odd. Men get it in the 30s." "I shall not pursue the point," pursued Randolph. "I did desire to know the malady from which she suffered." "Well," said Dr. White, "she may have had cancer. Or some mental disorder."

On the BBC's Scrapbook of 1936 came a recording of the soft, hesitant voice with the stirring plea: "I have found it impossible ... to discharge my duties as King . . . without the help and support of the woman I love ..." Millions listened to the abdication speech of Edward VIII, rebroadcast in England for the first time, as the Duke of Windsor danced away the evening with the woman he loved in a Manhattan nightspot.

Milestones last week in the crowded calendar of widowed Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor and freshly divorced Crooner Eddie Fisher: both made beaming appearances at a banquet honoring Old Vaudevillian George Jessel, where Liz chipped in $100,000 for some Israel bonds; Eddie hosted a surprise 27th birthday party for his lovely friend, gave her a purse studded with 27 diamonds; Liz leased a Nevada desert ranch, just to be near Eddie during a Las Vegas saloon engagement next month.

His lecture (subject: "The Future of Europe") duly applauded, Laborite Peer Lord Attlee settled down for tea at Indiana's Valparaiso University. Cream or lemon?asked the hostess.Answered Attlee, with just the flicker of a smirk: "Ever since the Boston Tea Party, you Americans have been trying to dredge up our bloomin' tea and give it back to us. No, thanks--I'll have coffee."

By the will of her mother, who died last November, titian-topped Cinemactress Greer Garson, already passably well off as the wife of millionaire Texas Oilman E. E. ("Buddy") Fogelson, will inherit an estate of about $100,000.

Proud at becoming a grandfather for the first time, Cleveland Pediatrician Benjamin (Baby and Child Care) Spock, 55, noted that Daniel Wood Spock (8 Ibs. 5 oz.) has the long-boned family heels, shipped off to the papa, Dayton Museum of Natural History Employee Michael Spock, a free copy of the bestselling (some 10 million copies) manual that has helped mold countless U.S. kiddies from cradle to kindergarten. Wise Dr. Spock promised to steer clear of ad-lib footnotes. Said he: "Don't meddle in your grandchildren's upbringing."

At a benefit ball in Athens. Greece's perkily pretty Queen Frederilca and towering King Paul shared a turn about the floor and a moment of royal amusement. Later, Her Majesty gave a club group a few homey recollections of last fall's U.S. trip. Sample: when the Queen asked to see the launching of a moon rocket she was told that the request posed difficulties because future visitors might use it as a precedent. "Why don't you," suggested Frederika helpfully, "make a rule that only queens and upwards can go?"

For her artistic and highly profitable efforts to popularize the hip-rolling ethnic dances of the Caribbean, Haiti awarded Negro Dancer Katherine Dunham the Order of Honor and Merit with the rank of commander. Adding to the general joy, the mayor of Port-au-Prince made Dancer Dunham an honorary citizen.

It was heart-stabbing enough for Los Angeles Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella, paralyzed 13 months ago by auto-accident injuries, that his 15-year-old son David was declared a juvenile delinquent by Children's Court in Jamaica, L.I., for fighting in a furtive gang rumble. But worse followed. Released in the custody of his mother, David was driven to Flushing precinct headquarters, where police accused him of breaking into a drugstore with a white friend, stealing $9 and some cigarettes. When David confessed, Roy was crushed. "I tried to help as much as I could with juvenile delinquency, and here's my boy that jumped the track," Roy said. "Whenever I spoke to boys who had been in trouble, I asked them to think why. I made them think about themselves and about why they did those crazy acts. Now I have to ask Dave why."

On the prowl for a candidate for mayor in next fall's election, Philadelphia Republican leaders sounded out a local lawyer. Would he? Answered bald, ever-boyish Harold Stassen, 51, Governor of Minnesota (1939-43), sometime (1955-58) presidential assistant on disarmament, soundly defeated candidate last spring for the Republican gubernatorial nomination: a tentative yes--if the bosses can rout up enough rank-and-file support.

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