The party took place at the British consul general's house in Boston. Moving through the reception, Jacqueline Kennedy welcomed the first ten British graduate students awarded scholarships by Britain's Kennedy Memorial Fund, established after the President's death to send Britons to the U.S. for research and travel. Never far from the side of her brothers-in-law Bobby and Teddy, Jackie said little, although she was especially pleased to see Lord Harlech, formerly Sir David Ormsby Gore, the British Ambassador to the U.S. during the Kennedy Administration. After the party, Jackie invited the students out to Hyannis Port for the weekend.
The great man had written in My Early Life: "I loved my mother dearly --but at a distance." A painful distance, according to Randolph Churchill, 55, chronicling the early life of Sir Winston Churchill in a biography now being serialized by London's Sunday Telegraph. "Winston's schooldays were the only unhappy part of his life," writes Randolph about his father. "The neglect and lack of interest shown by his parents were remarkable." Winny constantly begged "Mummy and Papa" to visit him at school, but "Lord Randolph was a busy politician; Lady Randolph was caught up in the whirl of fashionable society." The biographer, who himself suffered from having a busy famous father, concludes that parental indifference forced Winston early "to stand on his own feet."
Holy propaganda! No sooner had TV's Batman and Robin resumed their camp crusading for another season than the Soviet humor magazine Krokodil published a humorless tirade calling them "idealized representatives of the FBI." The show, said the editorial writer, is attracting "more and more millions of children, teenagers and underdeveloped adults. Betmvenomaniya is raging in American schools like the plague. The games of children are becoming cruel. Batman is making the spiritual night of America darker." Gleeps!
This particular Rockefeller Center is not a very grand place. Set up with a $3,000 foundation grant, it comprises 30 acres of land with a small school building, a library and some playground equipment. Still, the center in the West Virginia town of Emmons (pop. 300) means more to former Anti-Poverty Worker John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV than the complex of skyscrapers that his grandfather built in Manhattan. "It's great," said Rockefeller, 29, now a Democratic candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates. Jay was so proud of the new center that he got his father, John D. Rockefeller HI, to fly down from New York for the dedication party, when the whole town turned out to hear the two marching bands and strut in the cakewalk contest.
He was playing it straight this time. Bob Hope and his wife Dolores signed over 80 acres of land, valued at more than $500,000, as a site for the new $5,500,000 Eisenhower Medical Center to be built in Palm Desert, Calif., where Ike and Mamie spend their winters. Earlier, the Hopes had chipped in $50,000 toward the heart, pulmonary and cancer research center.
Midstlaurels stood: Houston's Dr.
Michael DeBakey, 58, pioneer of the artificial heart, honored with the Maine Heart Association's Drake Memorial Award for his achievements in cardio vascular surgery; Swingman Benny Goodman, 57, named for New York City's Handel Medallion for his contributions to world culture and American music; West German Chemist Ernst Klenk, 70, and New York Physician Harry Goldblatt, 75, named to share the Vernon Stouffer Foundation's first annual $50,000 Stouffer Prize for their lifelong research into the nature and treatment of high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis.
A New York Yacht Club syndicate paid $30,000 to build the schooner America in 1851, then sent her spanking off to England to prove its boast that she was "the fastest yacht afloat." America triumphantly returned with the Royal Yacht Squadron's "100-Guinea Cup," the ugly silver ewer that became the famed America's Cup. The America herself was broken up long ago, but now she will be grandly resurrected. Yachtsman Rudolph Schaefer, 66, president of the Schaefer Brewing Co., has commissioned a replica of the 103-ft. gaffrigged beauty for $400,000. The new boat will not race for the cup next year against the versatile 12-meter sloops, however.
She will just be standing by, said Schaefer, "to rekindle the spirit of the America."
She had spent many summers there as a girl before going away to the equally implausible principalities of Hollywood and Monaco. Now Princess Grace, 36, was back in the Kelly summer home with her prince and three small Grimaldis in tow. Of course, Ocean City, N.J., lacks a certain Monegasque patina, but the princess was feeling gracefully and somewhat plumply at home. "It has been lovely to come here and sit and look at the ocean," said Grace, gently shaking a new silvery-blonde hairpiece that cascaded over her shoulders.
His nickname was "Stretch" more than 50 years ago when he was the finest first baseman that Stony Point, N.Y., had ever seen. James A. Farley didn't make it to the big leagues, although he was quite a pro at politics--another game he took seriously. Now, at 78, F.D.R.'s old campaign manager has decided to get back into baseball. He has signed on as president of the Little League Foundation.
Radiant in the candlelight, Lynda Bird Johnson, 22, dined at San Francisco's Shadows Restaurant, then set off with her date to Sausalito's Trident nightclub to listen to soft guitars until midnight. Was her escort that smoothie, George Hamilton? Not this time. Lynda's best-publicized beau did not turn up as she headed west for a Hawaiian vacation.
Her date on the California stopover was a more earnest type, Dr. Brent Eastman, 26, the athletic intern who piloted her raft down Wyoming's Snake River last year while working as a summer guide. Would they get together again on her way back to Washington? Maybe, he answered. "But I'm an intern, and I'm pretty well tied down to the hospital."
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