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For his backstage visitor, Actor Ralph Bellamy, starring on Broadway as the young F.D.R. in Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello, perked his jaw at a bold tangent, managed a practiced facsimile of the famed face-wide grin. On hand to size up the miming: South Carolina's retired Democratic Governor James F. Byrnes, 79, whose memory of spats with the boss he once served seemed mellowed: "I understood Mr. Roosevelt's feelings about politics. But it is inevitable when you have a political difference with someone that people attribute bitterness to it. Bitterness is a popular word in politics."
Taking command (in August) of Army forces in Alaska: lean, grey-haired Major General John H. Michaelis, 46, onetime (1947-48) aide-de-camp to Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower, combat-proved commander (1950-51) of the famed 27th Infantry ("Wolfhound") Regiment, which held off North Korean armies in the Pusan perimeter while U.S. forces massed for a crushing breakthrough.
In the Virgin islands, feline Songstress Eartha Kitt pawed doubtfully at the mystery of her throaty allure: "I don't have a voice. I sing the way I do because my vocal cords don't join each other properly." Eartha's ambition: "When I'm 110 years old I want people to remember Eartha Kitt. I'm after longevity."
Her Majesty's government, diplomatically resigned to the high cost of quenching Washingtonian thirst, hoisted the 1960 entertainment allowance of Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Harold Caccia by $9,548 to a liquid $94,864. Allowance of Millionaire John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's: a mere $30,000 or so.
Ensuring that his records will be broadcast in at least two U.S. cities, come what may, collegiate Crooner Pat Boone (B.S., Columbia '58) joined a financial combo to buy radio stations WKDA in Nashville and KNOK in Fort Worth. Price: about $1,000,000.
* Daughter of Republican Businessman John Roosevelt.