Funny, but soon after NBC Newscaster Chet Huntley said that the nation's meat industry was "sick" and that one of the consumer's greatest problems was "too much fat in our beef," a new viand went on sale in New York. The product: Chet Huntley's Nature Fed Beef, advertised by pictures of a lean and hungry Chet and by promises of "quality and flavor, plus low fat and high protein." The fat was in the fire, and NBC, prodded by a local packer, ordered Huntley to trim his name and face from the chopped chuck and sirloin. Good night, Chet.

The ahs turned to ahas the minute she turned her back. At a fashion show benefiting the Hollywood Museum, barefoot Soprano Patrice Munsel, 39, sashayed out in a pair of gold lace pajamas with an emerald on her big toe. Brava! But Munsel, who admits her pj's are not for sleeping, saved the real treat for retreat: a peekaboo backline, cut clear down to her basso profundo.

She really needn't have worried, but after all, acting as official White House hostess at 16 can be slightly overwhelming. So Luci Barnes Johnson primped nervously as she prepared for an East Room musicale by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But she let it all happen naturally, and the result was as fresh as a cherry blossom. "I don't really realize that I am a President's daughter," she told reporters, "and that I represent American youth. If I did, I would go out of my mind." It is best to be yourself, she went on, even if you "sometimes make mistakes, as I may be doing right now talking to you."

Mother didn't mind talking at all. At Texas Woman's University in Denton, Lady Bird Johnson added an honorary

LL.D. to her L.B.J.* Addressing nearly 2,000 girl students, Denton's new Dr. Johnson said: "You were born at the right time. It is a good time to be a woman. It is a good time to be alive."

Little boys are not normally noted for observance of protocol. But when William Wallace Daniel, 4, was asked by Grandfather Harry S. Truman, 79, to accompany him to a bridge dedication, William fell solemnly into step a respectful three paces behind, with all the inborn aplomb of a White House aide. After the bridge at Florida's Duck Key had been named after him, Truman met the press. Who would be the Republican presidential candidate? Harry riposted: "I don't nominate Republicans; I just beat 'em."

The invitation was a minor intimation of immortality: "The Former Friends of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. invite you to A Gala! Joyous! Exultant! Celebration of his Departure from the Government of the United States of America and the Opening of his New Offices, CASH (Center for the Advanced Study of History). Dinner and Dancing ... 7 o'clock till dawn . . . Many Door Prizes--a Favorable Mention in his History of the Kennedy Administration . . . Come as you were."

The bride, Meriel Douglas-Home, 24, promised to love, honor and cherish Oxford Economics Tutor Adrian Darby, 26. "They thought 'obey' was rather stereotyped," explained her brother. Meriel entered the tiny church in Coldstream, Scotland, to the brisk strains of Jerusalem The Golden; no Wagner or Mendelssohn for her. And no florist, either: the pussy willows, daffodils and tulips in the church had been ' arranged personally by the father of the bride, British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, who does that sort of thing for a hobby.

The will was drawn up in 1939 before tax laws were eased to lessen the Government bite on estates. Lawyers drew up a later will, but Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr, who died in 1963, never got around to signing it. So the widow and four children had to pay a whopping tax of $9.4 million (45%) on Kerr's more-than-$20.8 million estate, most of it in oil stock with a market value of $14,472,703, plus another $2,594,000 in real estate, bonds, a motel, and radio and television properties. To pay the tax collector, the oil-rich Kerrs had to borrow a cool $6,100,000 in cash.

In 1911 she was sensational dancing the "grizzly bear"; in 1939 she presented a new one called the "Castle rock and roll," which included such steps as "kick the bucket" and "banking the turn." But today's twist and "dances of the South American ilk" irk Irene Castle, 71. "I don't mind so much what they do with their fannies," she said. "It's what they do with their arms and heads. All this jerky, jerky, jerking. It's so unbecoming."

The first woman member of the Atomic Energy Commission describes herself as a "geneticist with nest-building experience." Mrs. Mary Ingraham Bunting, 53, president of Radcliffe College since 1960, was leaving campus for commission because, said she, "I have always felt that one thing that blocked women's education all along the line was lack of visible opportunities at the end. This was a way to make one opportunity visible."

-She already holds two degrees of her own, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Journalism, from the University of Texas.

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