In living proof that the wages of multiple matrimony is debt, aging (43) Crooner Dick Haymes filed for voluntary bankruptcy in Manhattan, listed his assets as $5,493. including $9 in his bank account. His liabilities are somewhat more formidable: $522,242, including some $20,000 in payments owed to his second wife, Cinemactress Joanne Dru, and a similar debt of $11,000 due his third wife, Nora Eddington Flynn Haymes.

Appointed as its Roman Catholic co-chairman by the National Conference of Christians and Jews: retired Career Diplomat Robert Murphy, 65, now president of Corning Glass International. His N.C.C.J. opposite numbers: Reform Jew Lewis L. Strauss, 64, longtime (1953-58) chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, later rejected by the Senate as Ike's appointed Secretary of Commerce; Methodist Carrol M. Shanks, 61, president of Prudential Insurance Co. of America.

Never one for pomp and ceremony, Britain's Prince Philip accepted the Lord High Stewardship of Plymouth, England, then made a refreshingly candid comment: "One is left with the impression that this position has no duties. This suits me admirably, and I only hope that no one tries to think of any."

A ward of a Hollywood juvenile court ever since she killed her mother's lover with a kitchen knife in 1958, Cheryl Crane, 16, daughter of Cinemactress Lana Turner, was sent off on court orders to a county school for problem girls.

The inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph, Swiss Physicist Auguste Piccard, 76, stepped forward in Lausanne to get an achievement award presented jointly to him and his son, Jacques Piccard, by Philadelphia's Drexel Institute of Technology. The Piccards were due for special recognition for the record dive of the bathyscaph last January to a depth of 37,800 ft. in the Pacific (TIME, Feb.1). Jacques Piccard and Navy Lieut. Don Walsh manned the odd craft in the sensational descent.

Receding grey hair setting off his still youthful face, Cinemactor James (Strategic Air Command) Stewart, 51, pinned a brigadier general's star on each shoulder of his Air Force blues, reported at the Pentagon for two weeks of reservist training duty. Quartered at Boiling Air Force Base, General Stewart commuted daily by launch across the Potomac to his Pentagon office. Though a well-qualified air plane pilot, Stewart is now chairborne in a public relations spot as deputy director of information in the office of the Secretary of the Air Force. In a general mobilization, the deputy's job would be his.

One of the last of Hollywood's tycoons, Producer Samuel Goldwyn, 77, a staunch Republican, uncorked the sort of Goldwynism that made Goldwynisms famous. He was ticking off the tough issues that Nixon faces in the presidential contest: "The defense budget, the U.S. foreign policy mess, Castro. And that H-bomb. That's dynamite!"

An attorney for waning Cinemactress Laraine Day, 39, confirmed what most Holly wooders have long suspected: her 13-year marriage to baseball's onetime tough guy, Leo Durocher, 53, will soon be called out on strikes. Durocher has recently been touching bases with blonde Hollywood Dancer Larri Thomas, 26, estranged wife of Actor John Bromfield.

A traffic judge in Oakland, Calif, gave a three-day jail sentence (suspended) to Alan H. W. Chiang, 25, a grandson of Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, for revving his car up to 80 m.p.h. in a 65-m.p.h. zone. Not at all impressed by young Business School Student Chiang's influential background, the judge was most displeased at the State Department's efforts to save Chiang's face, and at Chiang's demand for a jury trial, duly granted, but made pointless by Chiang's plea amounting to no defense.

Just when almost all Britain was rejoicing over the impending May marriage of Princess Margaret to a happily suitable commoner, Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, the editors of a top British authority on noble genealogy, Debrett's Peerage, came along to spoil the illusion that Tony is just an ordinary bloke. After 16 days of laborious climbing in a forest of family trees, Debrett's Assistant Editor Patrick Montague-Smith proclaimed that Armstrong-Jones is not only of royal blood but also a very distant kinsman of Margaret. In a complex chart, Montague-Smith submitted proof that Tony is 22nd in descent from King Edward I's daughter Elizabeth* Moreover, a medieval lord of Harlech was a mutual ancestor of both Tony and Margaret. Exulted Tree Tracer Montague-Smith: "A thrilling discovery! The relationship between Princess Margaret and Mr. Armstrong-Jones really comes to this: they are twelfth cousins, twice removed!"

* Not very startling news to Britain's upper-class society, vast numbers of whom can trace their ancestry back to Edward I.

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