All of the faces in the line-up were familiar, but two seemed strangely out of place. Democratic Rooters Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin joined oldtime Republicans Bob Hope and John Wayne in a $125-a-head fund-raiser on behalf of California Governor Ronald Reagan's campaign for reelection. Before 900 appreciative guests, Sinatra and Martin sang and made themselves available as targets for one-liners in which Sinatra's difficulties with the law seemed to figure prominently. "Ronnie is thrilled to have Frank in his camp," said Hope, "but he wishes they'd stop calling him the Godfather." Martin explained that "Sinatra's had a tough time. He was unwanted as a child and now he's wanted in five states." Sinatra: "I've performed, I think, in most of the countries I'm allowed to go to."

"Three hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets," said Napoleon. "Politicians and political types invariably regard the press as an implacable enemy," President Johnson's onetime press secretary, George E. Reedy, told an audience of Princeton University students last week. A U.S. President "tends to view attacks upon himself as attacks upon the country," said Reedy. "L.B.J. could pull out a mental file drawer in which he had catalogued every major sin by anyone who had ever held a pencil."

At a meeting of the Washington chapter of the Society for the Further Respectability of Burlesque, Veteran Ecdysiast Ann Corio turned up in laced brown leather boots, which she said were her tribute to the woodsmen of the world and (because they zipped up the back) the zipper industry. "I always feel I've failed the zipper industry," said Miss Corio. "I use hooks and eyes on all my garments because the movement to unhook them is both quicker and more graceful than the long, often erratic gesture of zipping. Early in my stripping career, a zipper failed to unzip, quite ruining a performance attended by three members of the Supreme Court."

Pretty and petite as ever, Actress Audrey Hepburn, 41, is putting everything she has into her current role: doctor's wife. She was married in 1969 to an Italian psychiatrist, Andrea Dotti, 32, and now lives in Rome. Last week she admitted to an interviewer that she often joins her husband for dinner at the hospital when he has to work late, and that her traveling these days is mostly limited to medical conventions. "If I could have a part in a film to be made on the street in front of my house and I could come home for lunch, I might accept it," says Signora Dotti. "I don't want to be tossed around the world any more or be a prisoner in a movie studio when my husband comes home."

After 26 years as Boston's archbishop, ailing Richard Cardinal Cushing, 75, was helped up the steps of Holy Cross Cathedral for the two-hour ceremonial installation of his successor, Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros. In what he called "a kind of farewell" to his flock of 1,900,000, the cardinal acknowledged that he had "never dreamed that God in his providence would allow me the privilege of presiding at the installation of my successor. I consider it a special sign of his goodness that he spared me to this day."

Success, anyone? Herewith a few million dollars worth of advice from no less an expert than Aristotle Onassis. Don't worry about your physical shortcomings ("I am no Greek god"), he told the highly motivated readers of a magazine called Success Unlimited. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive; maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic; patronize posh watering places even if you have to nurse your drinks. Never niggle when short of cash. "Borrow big, but always repay promptly."

An interview with White House Chef Henry Haller appears in the current Washingtonian magazine with lines drawn through certain sentences (still clearly legible) that White House staffers found objectionable. It was not censorship they wanted, the aides explained. They just did not think that the U.S. public needed to know that President Nixon mixed himself a martini every night before dinner, that the Nixons love meat loaf and hate calf's liver, that Pat Nixon "at times appears to lack a good appetite" and that she was in the White House eleven months before she visited the chefs in the kitchen.

The bridegroom wore hair and maroon velvet, the bride wore flowers and white satin when Michael Wilding, 17, son of Actress Elizabeth Taylor and her second husband, Actor Michael Wilding, married Beth Clutter, 19. Outside London's Caxton Hall Registry, a crowd of 500 gathered to goggle at the groom's mum (in white wool pants and a rink-sized diamond) and her husband, Richard Burton (in business suit and a new slim, "off-the-sauce" look). No wedding reception, no honeymoon. "Too old-fashioned," explained a p.r. man. "These are a couple of mod kids."

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