(2 of 2)
Nobody has heard yet if Prince Philip is hip to it, but his goddaughter has been crowned France's Queen of the Twist.
Willowy, blue-eyed song-and-dance girl Louise Cordet, 16, whose mother, a London pubkeeper, and the Prince are long time friends, flew across for a one-night stand at Paris' Olympia Theater. Wriggling up to the footlights, she gave the full house four songs, including a low and swinging rendition of her smash record I'm Just a Baby that has toted up a sale of more than 500,000 copies on both sides of the Channel.
In London, Sir Winston Churchill breakfasted on a soft-boiled egg and, on his 88th birthday, followed it with a glass of champagne.
"He took it with his customary aplomb," said the lawyer for monocled Actor Martyn Green, 63, whose $350,000 negligence suit against a Manhattan parking garage was tossed out of court. Three years ago, Green's left leg was amputated after it was crushed between the garage's self-service elevator platform and the shaft wall; an ambulance intern had to borrow a penknife from a cop to perform the operation. But an all-male jury agreed that Green had no claim. He was operating the elevator himself because he didn't trust the garage attendants to park his M.G. sports car.
She was kidnaped in 1911 by an Italian fanatic and was missing for two years; then her left elbow was chipped by a stone-throwing Brazilian. In recent years she has resided safely and quietly in Paris, well cared for by doting Frenchmen, who used to value her at $10 million, now insure her for $100 million and really think she is priceless. Just the same, if high-level negotiations work out the details for her comfort, Leonardo da Vinci's enigmatic Mona Lisa will leave the Louvre next year for her first visit to the U.S. to tour the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, and maybe make a quick side trip to California.