She was the Roman goddess of wealth and marriage, and it took plenty of the former before Armand Hammer, 78, could latch on to Rembrandt's Juno. The perdurable Occidental Petroleum Corp. chairman, who recently received a $3,000 fine for making illegal contributions to the 1972 Nixon campaign, bought the 17th century masterpiece for $3.25 million from Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf II. The most highly priced Rembrandt ever sold, the painting will eventually land in the Los Angeles County Museum. "The seller was asking $5 million," said the magnate philosophically, "so I think $3.25 million is a bargain."

He began by covering World War II; later he watched the fighting in Korea, Palestine, Greece, India and Indochina. Last week Photographer David Douglas Duncan, 60, was back on a battlefield again. Only this time it was in Deventer, Holland, on location with Producer Joseph E. Levine's $25 million war movie A Bridge Too Far. "It was completely real, everything grindingly, crushingly normal -- everything except the bullets," reported Duncan after taking pictures of Actor Robert Redford and cast recreating the 1944 Battle of Arnhem. A good assignment, then? "The greatest," answered Duncan, "because after the day's work, the dead and wounded got up, hosed themselves off and went home. Beautiful."

Diana Trilling called it censorship; Lillian Hellman called it "unpleasant business." But to some, last week's go around had the look of a literary row par excellence. The clawing began when Essayist Trilling, 71, widow of Critic Lionel Trilling, disclosed that Little, Brown & Co. had canceled her book contract. The reason, said a representative of the publisher, was "unpleasantly personal attacks" on Playwright Hellman, 69, a longtime Little, Brown writer and author of the current bestseller Scoundrel Time. Hellman had stood firm in the face of a congressional inquisition during the Joseph McCarthy era, and in her book she wondered "how Diana and Lionel Trilling, old, respected friends, could have come out of the same age and time with such different political and social views from my own." Denying any personal attacks on Hellman, Trilling cited Scoundrel Time in her manuscript as an example of "diminishing intellectual force" in the community. "I know what the hell's in the goddam manuscript," commented Little, Brown Editor in Chief Roger Donald, indicating that other passages were even more critical. As for Hellman? "I find it very painful," she said, "that two old friends who don't have to agree politically, but who like each other personally, ever came to this point."

When Greek Shipping Heiress Christina Onassis married Banking Heir Alexander Andreadis 14 months ago, everyone was surprised at the couple's one-month courtship. The lightning-fast merger has now fallen apart, and last week relatives of both Christina, 25, and Alexander, 31, revealed that the pair had agreed to a divorce. Not all Christina watchers were surprised. After a motorcycle spill had hospitalized Andreadis with a broken leg last August, his wife came by to autograph the cast. Her inscription: "Bon voyage, Alexandras, better luck next time."

"Producer Jennings Lang says airport movies will become just like westerns; he expects to do at least ten to 20 more," notes Pamela Bellewood, star of Lang's new fly-by-fright flick. Titled Airport 77, the movie features Jimmy Stewart as a millionaire art collector, Bellewood as his daughter and the obligatory lineup of golden Hollywood oldies, including Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotten. In this one, Stewart & Co. jet off with their art treasures on a jumbo junket to Palm Beach, only to learn that thieves have put sleep gas in the 747's ventilation system. When the big snooze hits, the big plane alights on a watery sand bar. "There's nothin' new about 'em," says Stewart of such disaster dramas. "Been the same since Sam Goldwyn made Hurricane in 1937."

"I'm older but better," boasted spry Choreographer George Balanchine, 72, after arriving in Paris for the first visit in eleven years by his New York City Ballet company. Accompanied by prodigal Ballerina Suzanne Farrell, 31, who had rejoined the Balanchine troupe after a 4 1/2-year stint with the Bejart ballet in Brussels, the dance master made a trip to the jewelry shop of Van Cleef & Arpels. The reason: Balanchine's dazzling ballet Jewels, which had its French premiere last week, had been inspired 15 years ago by Claude Arpels, president of the jewelry company's Fifth Avenue branch. Dancer Farrell happily modeled some $10 million in sparklers at the store, but settled for fake jewelry in her performances. The critics still sensed value. Gushed Le Monde: "Suzanne Farrell is perfection in its purest state -- like iridescent platinum."

As a major leaguer, Walter Alston appeared in one game for the 1936 St. Louis Cardinals, batted one time -- and struck out. But Alston's tenure as manager of the Brooklyn, later the Los Angeles, Dodgers definitely went into extra innings. After 23 consecutive one-year contracts, seven National League pennants and four world championships, Alston, 64, last week announced his retirement to become a Dodger super-scout. "There comes a time when you get enough of everything," explained the quiet man of baseball, hinting that today's breed may not be to his taste. "Most players who made the majors spent much more time in the minors than they do now," he observed. "And the player who made it was more appreciative of what he got."

It was just like the old days as the New York Times and Richard Nixon squared off in a dispute over facts. In a front-page story last week, the Times offered a preview of Nixon's memoirs, due next year, based on what it described as "164 pages of completed manuscript." The book, said the paper, would characterize Watergate as a "partisan scandal used by his enemies to bring him down." In one scene from the final hours of his Administration, the Times added, Nixon would tell how he went to a White House window to acknowledge what he thought were supporters, only to be greeted by roars of "Jail to the Chief!" Branding the Times story "whole cloth," Nixon Chief Researcher Franklin Gannon insisted that the former President had not yet written a word about Watergate. What's more, the 164-page manuscript was merely a sample written last year for the benefit of the book's publisher, Warner Books. Added Literary Agent Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, Nixon is "honest and candid and unrelenting on himself." His reward, Lazar confirmed, will be a guaranteed $2.5 million, plus $300,000 for expenses.

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