"I am a soldier of the church," said the Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, 71. "The general has told me to go there, and I love it." Pope Paul VI had ordered Bishop Sheen to Rochester, N.Y., where he will take over the diocese, assuming his first pastoral assignment in 42 years. Sheen, who used to compete with Uncle Miltie for the Tuesday night Nielsen ratings, will continue the TV sermons he resumed last September after a nine-year absence. "In Rochester I will be closer to the people," he told a Manhattan press conference. Carried away by interfaith enthusiasm, a photographer rushed up to the bishop and called out the Hebrew blessing: "Mazel tov!"

When he read the play, the celebrated author's great-great-great-grandson was scandalized. So he brought suit in a Paris court to have his ancestor's name deleted from the title, and Judge Max Leboulanger quickly agreed. "Damaging to the family's good name," ruled the magistrate. So, thanks to the Comte Xavier de Sade, an eminently proper gentleman farmer from Conde-en-Brie, the name of his peculiar forebear, the Marquis de Sade, was ordered removed from the billboards advertising the Paris production of Marat Sade. Protested Producer Tony Azzi: "Real sadism."

Thoroughbred race horses are not noted for the sweetness of their dispositions. But Kelso, winner of an alltime record $1,977,896 before his retirement last March, was as gentle as a lamb. Kids fed him sugar; a chocolate sundae would cheer him up if he'd lost a race; and everybody loved him so much that his owner, Mrs. Richard du Pont, gave him a mailbox at the barn to handle all the fan letters. Now nine, the magnificent gelding is taking his ease, jogging around Mrs.du Font's Maryland farm, treating her to early-morning canters like any other saddle horse.

A teacher at Paris' Ecole Speciale d'Architecture once remarked: "She has everything: beauty, grace, intelligence. She is a brilliant student." The girl did cut short her education in order to get married seven years ago, but that doesn't seem to have hurt her standing. Still dazzling, Iran's Empress Farah Diba, 28, traveled to Shiraz in southwestern Iran, donned the elaborate academic robes of Pahlevi University, which happens to be named for her husband, and accepted an honorary degree in science and arts as the university celebrated its fifth anniversary.

Filed for probate in Manhattan, the will of the late Elizabeth N. Graham, better known as Elizabeth Arden, disposed of an estate valued at some $50 million by settling $2,000,000 on a niece, Mrs. Patricia Graham Young; $4,000,000 on her sister, Vicomtesse Henri de Maublanc; $1,000,000 on a nephew, John B. Graham; and a total of $3,000,000 on maids, chauffeurs and some 200 employees in her beauty empire. The principal beneficiaries: New York State and the U.S. Government, which will take approximately $39 million in estate taxes.

After a grueling 38-week session, practically everybody in Congress had hustled home to the hustings for a few speeches before Election Day. Staying behind in Washington, however, was an indefatigable pair: Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, 69, and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 70, who went on orating in their pajamas at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Russell was in for a routine physical, Dirksen for an operation to remove the surgical pins from the hip he fractured last spring. It looked as if they were getting set for a hot debate on Medicare.

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With so many people writing in to complain to the Selective Service about his exemption, a New York City draft board decided to have another look at Lynda Johnson's beau, Actor George Hamilton, 27. George has been exempted on grounds that he is the sole financial support of his mother, Mrs. Anne Hamilton Spalding, who, after four divorces, lives in her son's $200,000 Beverly Hills house. The board has ordered him to report Nov. 7 for a physical exam and possible reclassification. In Munich, where he's filming Jack of Diamonds, George broke his usual silence about the matter: "I do feel that I have an obligation toward my country. If they want me, I'll go."

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The gospel according to John provoked such outrage that it seemed the only atonement for the Beatles would be to tonsure their Shaggy locks and turn them into hair shirts. "We are more popular than Jesus Christ now," Beatle John Lennon had pronounced, moving scores of disk jockeys to ban their records. Now John has received some expert support. Richard Cardinal Gushing, 71, preached in Boston's Holy Cross Cathedral: "The Beatles are better known than Christianity throughout the world." His point: Missions must be strengthened in a world in which Christians are outnumbered. Was that what John meant all along?

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