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Chicago Lawyer Adlai E. Stevenson (Princeton '22) ventured far north in Ivyland, took a seat in Harvard Memorial Church's Appleton Chapel, dandled on his knee plump, 13-week-old Adlai Ewing IV (so christened there), son of Adlai III (Harvard '52). When the presiding minister spurned a christening offering and suggested that the money should go into a bank account for Adlai IV, Grandpa Stevenson quipped: "Here is one infant who can credit his baptism and you with his solvency!"
In India, where he recently demonstrated to the locals the military art of bayoneting (TIME, Feb. 11), Soviet Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov swung a sword at his longtime bond with Dwight Eisenhower. Asked by newsmen for his view of Ike's new Middle East doctrine, Marshal Zhukov declared that though the new policy may not be Eisenhower's own idea, "it is a step toward war." Then he said deliberately: "Eisenhower is my old friend as a soldier [but] I do not know what is left of him as a soldier—whether he is still the same man."
Entraining in Kansas City for three weeks of sunshine on a Florida key, Harry S. Truman, 72, and wife Bess, 71, bore the marks of Missouri mishaps. Bess's broken left ankle was still in a cast after a recent household tumble (TIME, Jan. 14); Harry's scalp was bandaged over a six-stitch wound he got when he slipped on an icy sidewalk outside his home during a dawn workout.
Getting word that his bootlegged records are being snapped up in the Soviet Union by panting stilyagi (hepcats) for $12.50 a disk, Droner Elvis (Love Me Tender) Presley, 22, muttered: "That's the first Ah heard of it." Warming to the notion, The Pelvis burbled: "If Ah thought it'd do any good, Ah'd just take ma guitar an' get right out there on the front lines. Wouldn' that be somethin'—me singin' an' playin' ma guitar an' bullets whizzin' all 'round like in Hungary!" Then, carried away by the vision, he manfully declared: "If Ah can keep world peace, Ah'll go over an' sing to 'em!"