The heir to the throne of England drove to his Sunday polo match in his blue Aston Martin convertible with a smashing blonde bird in black slacks and a cream-colored shirt with the tails hanging out. Between chukkers, they chatted it up and laughed a lot, and then Prince Charles, 23, drove her back to Windsor Castle. Georgiana Russell is the name--the 24-year-old daughter of Sir John Russell, Britain's Ambassador to Spain, and Lady Russell, a former Greek beauty queen. Georgiana, a gifted linguist (French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian), lives in London and works for Vogue. The gossip columnists are overjoyed.

San Antonio, Texas, is 1,500 miles from Charlottesville, Va., where former President Lyndon Baines Johnson had suffered his second severe heart attack only five days before. But so strong is the L.B.J. homing instinct that he persuaded his doctors to let him make the flight with a heart monitor taped to his chest. Next day his doctors at the Army's Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio said he was in "great spirits" and responding well to treatment, which will probably last several weeks.

At one of his rare solo concerts, in Manhattan's Whitney Museum, Jazz Pianist-Composer Duke Ellington received an even rarer compliment. Togo's Ambassador to the U.S. presented him with a block of his country's stamps honor ing four great composers. "Ah," said the delighted Ellington, "Debussy, Bach, Beethoven--and Duke."

"I'm so nervous," said Movie Star Jane Wyman, wringing her program in San Diego's Off Broadway Theater. The former wife of California Governor Ronald Reagan was waiting for the curtain to go up on the musical Guys and Dolls, starring Daughter Maureen Reagan in the most exciting part she has had in her four-year acting career: Adelaide, the nightclub entertainer and perennial fiancee of Gambler Nathan Detroit. In four pairs of eyelashes and a fluffy blonde wig, Maureen drew guffaws and catcalls in her bumping and grinding A Bushel and a Peck number, but the theater critic of the San Diego Union was more restrained. "Maureen Reagan," he wrote, "compensates for a small voice with large eyes and a dignified dedication."

Among the casualties of President Nixon's rapprochement with China is a svelte and soignee French author and television producer named Danielle Hunebelle, who was so upset by Henry Kissinger's failure to look her up in Paris on his way back from the secret negotiations last summer that she crashed her car. During her recuperation, she wrote him a long, long letter--about their meeting when she was doing a magazine piece on him, about their ripening friendship when she was doing a TV documentary on him, about Kissinger's skittishness at a deep involvement because of his job. "Giving up the hope of understanding him," writes 49-year-old Danielle, "I decided to love him." Danielle's love letter has just been published in Paris as a 242-page book titled Dear Henry. On the dust jacket is a painting of Presidential Adviser Kissinger on his doorstep in striped pajamas, picking up a bottle of milk, a newspaper--and the morning mail.

The relations between Classics Professor Erich Segal and Yale University have not been exactly a love story. The professor seemed to be professing so much that wasn't classical--movies, for one thing, such as Yellow Submarine, for which he commuted to England to work on the script, and Without Apparent Motive, in which he played a French-speaking murder victim. Then came his super-bestseller, Love Story, which brought on such burdens as the latchkeys he said were thrust on him by airline hostesses. At Yale since 1964, an associate professor since 1968, Segal, 34, was up for tenure--which means that its possessor cannot be fired, except for flagrant wrongdoing. But the classics faculty turned thumbs down. Instead they appointed him senior lecturer, a post that carries fewer classroom responsibilities than a professorship. "It's sort of a middle ground," explained Department Chairman J.J. Pollitt.

At London's Aldwych Theater, the Natal Theater Workshop Company had one of the hits of the season with a Zulu version of Macbeth titled Umabatha. Princess Margaret paid her royal respects to the cast, and any scandal sniffers tempted to read significance into the sometime absence of her husband, Lord Snowdon, might well be discouraged by the catalogue of false rumors about her sister, Queen Elizabeth II, culled from the French press by Jean Marcilly, ex-editor in chief of France Dimanche. In Marcilly's survey, French papers have had the Queen pregnant 92 times, with nine miscarriages. She has been about to break up with Prince Philip 73 times, on the verge of abdicating 63 times, and near a nervous breakdown 32 times. And she has expelled Lord Snowdon from court no fewer than 151 times.

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