Friday, Feb. 01, 1963
Lest anyone forget, there is Kathleen, 11, Joseph, 10, Robert Jr., 9, David, 7, Mary Courtney, 6, Michael, 4, Mary Kerry, 3. Come June, Ethel Kennedy, 33, Bobby's wife, is expecting another.
Crossing up those who hoped she might wait around for Britain's Bonnie Prince Charlie, Denmark's vivacious Princess Anne-Marie, 16, got engaged to a darkly handsome older man, 22-year-old Crown Prince Constantino of Greece. At the royal announcement, Greek and Danish flags sprouted side by side on Copenhagen's public buildings; crowds cheered lustily as the betrothed appeared on the balcony of Amalienborg Castle. Even publicity-hating King Frederik IX relented and let the couple pose for a group of 42 photographers. "Take it easy," he told the pair as they began to fidget before the popping flashbulbs. "You've got plenty of time, so just relax." No date has been set for the wedding, but it probably won't be until early next year. The Princess must first finish the tenth grade.
As he passed his 89th birthday at his $1,000,000 villa on the French Riviera, Author Somerset Maugham demonstrated the art of growing old realistically. "I am a very old party who has arrived at an age which is no longer amusing," he gruffed. "On this birthday I really have no wishes to make."
Youthfully quickstepping out of a regional conference in Boston were six New England Governors, two Republicans and four Democrats, averaging only 42 1/3 years in age. There was Rhode Island Republican John H. Chafee, 40, New Hampshire Democrat John W. King, 44, Maine Republican John H. Reed, 42, Vermont Democrat Philip H. Hoff, 38, Connecticut Democrat John Dempsey, 48, and Massachusetts Democrat Endicott Peabody, 42. All but Reed and Dempsey are newcomers elected last fall (Hoff became Vermont's first Democratic Governor in 109 years). With a vigah befitting their years, the six agreed to ask their legislatures for a total of $2,700,000 to finance a New England exhibit at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair.
"All clowns in three rounds," intoned Heavyweight Cassius Clay. True to his word, it was in the third that Clay's foe hit the hay. But the boastful young bard, although he slugs hard, must face Sonny Listen some time. And while he can't rhyme. Sonny's right is sublime--and each doggerel has its day.
The tender twosome was getting its lumps in London. Elizabeth Taylor, 30, dislocated a cartilage in her left knee while on the set of her new film, The VIPs, and wound up resting her pretty bones in a wheelchair after what was described as "manipulative surgery," meaning resetting the knee. Poor Richard had his troubles too. Getting into a cab near Paddington railway station, Burton found himself competing for the ride with six narrow-panted Teddy boys. "Suddenly somebody lunged out," recounted Burton afterward. "Then a really small boy got me on the ground and I was helpless. They kicked me all over." The rascals got the cab, and Dickie got a black eye, a torso full of bruises and an unsightly gash on his nose.
Touring the U.S. to help stir up interest in women's track and field, Germany's Junoesque Jutta Heine, 22, finished second in the 60-yard dash but was No. 1 with the photographers. Six feet tall, with eyes of blue, the blonde daughter of a well-to-do Hannover lawyer won a silver medal by coming in second to the U.S.'s Wilma Rudolph in the 200-meter dash at the 1960 Rome Olympics. For the next three weekends, she will put on her spikes at meets in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Louisville.
A clerk in the Harrisburg, Pa., unemployment service dialed what he thought was the phone number of an out-of-work job seeker. "We think we have a position for you," he told the man who answered. "Thank you very much," replied Pennsylvania's newly elected Governor William Scranton, 45, over his private, unlisted phone, "but I've already got one."
To the horror of many Oakland, Calif., Tribune staffers who like their office to look like something out of The Front Page, the Trib's heir apparent, jet-setty Joseph W. Knowland, 32, son of the editor, ex-California Senator William Knowland, has installed himself in a virtual pleasure dome of an office. Young Joe has put in a bar, a refrigerator, a television set and--according to grumpy local account--an $1,800 walnut desk instead of an old roll top like the kind Dad uses. Beefed one dingier-than-thou Tribman: "It's like something out of Playboy."
Ill lay: Maria Callas, 39, recuperating in her Milan apartment after surgery to correct a hernia; Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 45, whose novel of Stalin-era slave-labor camps won praise from Premier Khrushchev, undergoing treatment for "a serious disease" (apparently cancer) in Moscow; Actress Carroll Baker, 31, stricken in London with mononucleosis.
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