Unlikely as it seemed, the personable Ago Khan, 22, was fresh out of prospective begums, at least as far as anyone in the gossip mills knew. One of his brightest flames, Sylvia Casablancas, 19, daughter of Mexican Moneybags Fernando Casablancas, disclosed that summer had brought her a love match with handsome French Tennistar Jean-Noel Grinda, 22. That still left the Aga linked with pretty Tracy Pelissier, 18, stepdaughter of British Moviemaker Sir Carol Reed, and the Aga's house guest in Cannes for a spell last summer. Tracy's mother spiked any thoughts of serious romance most effectively last week: she announced her daughter's troth to British Actor Edward Fox, 24.

A mimeographing press association called Women's News Service polled a covey of newspaper women's-page editors (mostly females) across the U.S., learned that almost a quarter of the distaffers were dead set against the idea of any woman's election as U.S. Vice President. The rest named some favorites. Top choices: Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, ex-Ambassador to Italy (1953-57) Clare Boothe Luce, Eleanor Roosevelt.

West Germany's patriarchal (83) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer journeyed last week to Cologne's Roon-Strasse and the site of a synagogue first battered by the Nazis and later demolished by Allied bombs. There, in the newly rebuilt synagogue, he observed Jewish custom by wearing a hat while taking part in the consecration ceremonies. Der Alte briefly explained his presence to the congregation, including some survivors of the mass murder of most of Cologne's Jews: "I want to show all Germans that the Federal Republic intends to be a shield of order and a haven of justice."

The sneak thief's fancy was tickled by a package of phonograph records, a man's hat and topcoat that reposed in a car parked on Chicago's South Side. The crook grabbed the loot and ran, little knowing that he had been seen by his victim--none other than Track Great Jesse Owens, who burned up the 1936 Olympics. Balding and 30 Ibs. heavier at 46 than in his running days, Illinois Youth Commission Member Owens raced down a flight of stairs, nailed his quarry in roughly 100 yds., failed to clock his own time for the dash.

In San Francisco, Kremlin-approved Soviet Novelist Mikhail (And Quiet Flows the Don) Sholokhov, 54, and Boston-disapproved U.S. Novelist Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell, 55, met for the first time since they were war correspondents in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Caldwell complained that he gets no royalties from his highly popular Russian editions. Sholokhov's rejoinder: he gets no money from the U.S. for his books either. Later, Author Sholokhov sounded off in Washington to some U.S. authors about Nobel Prize-declining Novelist Boris (Doctor Zhivago) Pasternak. "A hermit crab," sniffed Sholokhov. Pointing out that they had never met, he added: "A fact that is indifferent to me--but bad for Pasternak."

Saudi Arabia's Prince Mashhur, 6, who melted the U.S. in 1957 when his father King Saud brought him to Walter

Reed Army Hospital for treatment for partial paralysis, went visiting a young lady friend in Cairo. She is Nahed Hassanein, 4, daughter of a Cairo lawyer and rumored to be the young prince's intended bride. No one could say that it was love; Nahed seemed more taken by a toy animal that Mashhur brought her than by the prince himself. In any event, the tots have plenty of time to get to know each other: if they do marry, it will not be for years.

General Maxwell Davenport Taylor, 58, retired Army Chief of Staff, flew from New York City to Mexico City and foreign residence as board chairman of Mexican Light & Power Co. Ltd., a Canada-incorporated utility that supplies about a third of Mexico's electric power. Same day, another Army notable, 2nd Lieut. Pete Dawkins, 21, West Point's most acclaimed all-round cadet (first captain of cadets, '58 football captain, '59 class president, "Star" man in scholarship) since Douglas MacArthur, headed for two-year expatriation in England, where as a Rhodes scholar he will study at Oxford.

Landing in Miami after a voodoo-drummed idyl in Haiti with Omaha Dentist Miles Graham (real name: Marlon Brando), sultry Eurasian student Timy Van Nga (real identity: Actress France Nuyen) lost her temper at the airport when lensmen tried to snap the ill-disguised lovebirds (TIME, Sept. 28). After conking a photographer with her purse and punching his face, France abandoned the precarious world of Timy Van Nga to return to Broadway and her title role in The World of Suzie Wong.

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