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In some of the tersest repartee since Calvin Coolidge's grunts were supposed to speak volumes, Earl Attlee, 73, Britain's former Laborite Prime Minister, met and bested circling Chicago newshawks. What are the touring earl's impressions of the U.S.? "Very large." Could Attlee expand on that comment a bit? "Very large and very wealthy." Attlee's views on the revolt-torn island of Cyprus: "Difficult problem." Will the U.S.'s new Middle East policy help to warm Anglo-American relations? "Can't tell yet."
At a Manhattan meeting of liquor dealers, Massachusetts' boyish (39) Democratic Senator Jack Kennedy rose to help hail Charles Berns, the co-founding "Charlie" of Manhattan's famed "21" restaurant (see BUSINESS) and guest of honor as a benefactor of Massachusetts' decade-old Brandeis University. Getting a glowing introduction, Jack Kennedy seemed startled, then smiled and disclosed some spirits in his ancestral tree: "My grandfather had a saloon and my father was in the liquor business, and I don't usually get such a warm reception from people to whom my father sold something."*
Shapely Tenley Albright, 21, once a polio victim, now Olympic figure-skating champion (first U.S. woman to win that laurel), announced her withdrawal from rink competition. After only three years as a brilliant premed student at Radcliffe college, Skater Albright has been accepted by Harvard Medical School, will enter it this autumn, aims to go into some branch of children's medicine.
Beaming with her own brand of scrubbed-face beauty. Actress Ingrid Bergman, a peaches-and-cream 40, glided off a plane from Paris, where she is starring in a French version of Tea and Sympathy. At New York City's International Airport, she set foot on U.S. soil for the first time in more than seven scandal-haunted years. Ingrid's return was as brief (36 hours) as it was triumphant; she had come to pick up the New York Film Critics' "best actress" award for her excellent performance in the title role of Anastasia (TIME, Dec. 17). Not there to meet her: Ingrid's daughter Jennie Ann Lindstrom, 18, a University of Colorado freshman, unseen by her mother since 1951. Actress Bergman later chatted affectionately by long-distance phone with her daughter. Serene in a handsome mink coat, Ingrid doffed it for TV cameramen, then held tape-recorded interviews in French, Italian, Swedish and German, after which she dashed away to catch a My Fair Lady matinee. Next day the hectic weekend and award festivities were over, and Ingrid, unruffled despite the raucous cries of flacks, newsmen and admirers, boarded a Paris-bound plane. Would she stay longer next time? "The wind blows this way and that," she had said earlier. "I don't know what the future will hold."