What was John Lennon doing in Brigifte Bardot's hotel room? According to a new skin-deep biography of B.B. by British Writer Peter Evans, the former Beatle once more or less invited himself there. Since Lennon was in an Oriental mood at the time, Brigitte was advised to provide some cushions and sitar music for a bit of transcendental meditation. When all was ready, Lennon appeared at London's May Fair Hotel, took up a yoga position on the floor, and said not a word for half an hour. Brigitte tried to make conversation, but Lennon sharply told her: "Don't ask questions; listen to the sounds, feel the vibes." After more than an hour, Brigitte's stomach sent off a few vibes, so she suggested going out to dinner. Lennon said that he could not move because he felt a religious experience coming on. He promised, however, that while she was supping he would write a song in her honor. "When I got back to the hotel," Brigitte recalled to Evans, "Lennon was asleep on the floor, surrounded by masses of cushions and flowers and empty beer bottles."

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Shoichi Yokoi, 57, the Japanese Imperial Army corporal who only last January emerged from his World War II hiding place in the jungle of Guam, found the contemporary world rather unsettling. Modern women, particularly, struck him as "monsters" who "screech like apes." Now, apparently, he has found an old-fashioned girl to marry: Mihoko Hatashin, 44, a war widow. Said Mihoko: "We can now communicate with each other by eyes, though we don't talk to each other much." The couple's expected honeymoon site: Guam.

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President Nixon is opposed to liberalized abortion laws, and Senator McGovern is somewhat less than an advocate. Whom, then, should a committed feminist support? When challenged at a women's caucus in Manhattan for backing McGovern, Committed Feminist Gloria Steinem drew laughter and applause by answering: "If McGovern were a woman and he got pregnant, he would make an honest decision whether or not to have an abortion. If Nixon got pregnant, he'd have an abortion but he'd go around afterward telling everybody that he was still a virgin."

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It was a rare occasion that could bring together Lucille Ball, Rowan and Martin, and Flip Wilson as Geraldine in a bunny outfit--an anniversary party at the Beverly Hills Hotel in honor of Johnny Carson's ten years as host of the Tonight Show. After receiving an eleven-tier cake almost twice his height (5 ft. 11 in.), Carson startled his guests by announcing: "A lot of columnists have been asking why me and my gal haven't set a date for the wedding, so I think I will tell you that we were married at 1:30 this afternoon." With that he kissed his third bride. Actress Joanna Holland, 32, then turned and was surprised by a congratulatory buss from Geraldine. "I want to give you my best salute," said she.

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Half a century ago, according to an Athens piano teacher named Maria Emmanuel, King Carol of Rumania had a passionate fling with his wife's sister, Princess Irene of Greece. The outcome of the affair, says Maria, was her own birth. In recent years, she has been trying to claim a share of the late King's estate, estimated at $70 million. She has also tried to visit her supposed mother, now 68, living in Italy as the dowager Duchess of Aosta. Says Maria: "If she had looked me in the face and said, 'No, you are not my child,' I would have gone away and done nothing more." Instead, the dowager Duchess filed a suit in Athens against Maria for defamation. Result: Maria was convicted and now faces a 21-year prison sentence. "I have no wish to embarrass the royal family," insisted the pretender, who is appealing, "but I know the Duchess is my mother and I am determined to prove it."

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Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was a noisy nuisance in New York until convicted and fined for conspiring to manufacture explosives, has lately become a noisy nuisance in Jerusalem. There, his Jewish Defense League announced that it was gathering arms for a private war against Arab terrorists. Israeli police scooped up Kahane and five lieutenants on suspicion of smuggling. The rabbi, who claims 1,000 local followers, was delighted, for he has applied for Israeli citizenship and talks of running for the Knesset. "The government has made a big mistake by going after us this way," Kahane said. "It has made us seem like a big, important organization, which we're not, yet."

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They don't do battle in the Senate the way they used to, but Jacob Javits of New York and Morris Cotton of New Hampshire showed that they at least retain some of the oldtime fire. During a debate on federal safety laws, Javits accused Cotton, a fellow Republican, of "glittering rhetoric that you know to be a falsehood." Up rose Cotton, with fists clenched: "Did you say I spoke a falsehood?" Javits: "I didn't mean it that way." Cotton: "What did you say, sir?" While John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky stepped between the aging gladiators (Cotton is 72, Javits 68), Presiding Senator Elaine Edwards of Louisiana pleaded for order: "Gentlemen, please!" In the next day's Congressional Record both legislators had diplomatically edited their spat out of existence.

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