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Leaving Berlin after four years, General Lucius D. Clay, commander of the U.S. occupation forces, got a parting gift from Berlin's city fathers: they voted to change the name of the street he lived on from Im Dol to Claystrasse.
Oldtime Cinemactress Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven, 1927) and Designer-Husband Gilbert Adrian arrived home safe & sound after a six-week safari through Darkest Africa, just in time to catch a breathless Vogue preview of their trip: "Apart from several happy forays into Abercrombie & Fitch's Dr. Livingstone department, neither of the Adrians had had any experience as explorers. Their plans, not to shoot, but, rather, to admire the animals ('an enormous love of animals is our principal motive') modified the equipment situation somewhat . . . There would be a few days in Nairobi where dinner dress would be needed . . . Rather than take a chance on finding in the African shops an exploring costume in her size (almost no ready-made clothes anticipate her doll-like proportions)," Mrs. Adrian bought them in Manhattan. For the trip up river she wore "an oyster-white silk Shantung suit made (where better?) in her husband's workrooms; and as an alternate for the skirt a pair of Shantung slacks . . ." Mr. Adrian's equipment for the trek: "a picnic hamper . . . an out-of-doors stove, an alarm-clock wristwatch, a Rube Goldberg knife-is-a-can-opener-is-a-whistle . . ."
The Little Things that Count
Martita (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Hunt and Lee J. (Death of a Salesman) Cobb rated bravos as the best actors of the Broadway season from the toughest audience of all: Manhattan's drama critics. Basso Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza nudged aside Alfred (Kiss Me, Kate) Drake as the best musicomedy male. Mary (South Pacific) Martin danced off with all the votes for top musicomedienne.
Winston Churchill sent a little bread-&-butter present, delivered by hand by daughter Sarah, to Bernard Baruch, his host on his recent U.S. trip (TIME, April 4): a 24-by-36-inch Winston Churchill watercolor landscape.
The late Rabbi Stephen S. Wise got a memorial: the congregation of the Free Synagogue, which he founded in 1907, voted to change its name to the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue.
Rita Hayworth, whose wedding to Aly Khan is set for May 27, got full approval and a few thoughtful suggestions from Couturier Jacques Fath. "If I were Rita," he mused, "I would be married in white . . . white crepe with the panels in the skirt and the decolletage like this . . ." He gestured sweepingly downward. "I always make the deep décolletage for Rita," he explained, "because she has a strong bosom. It minimizes it, but one can see very clearly still that it is there."