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Prime Minister Winston Churchill, vacationing under intermittent sun and rain in Jamaica, was presented with a key to the city of Kingston. It was the first time the city has ever given its symbolic freedom to a visitor.
After counting up the number of Harvardmen slated for jobs in the higher Eisenhower echelons (a dozen, including President Dr. James B. Conant, Sinclair Weeks, Henry Cabot Lodge and Winthrop W. Aldrich), the Boston Globe gleefully recalled some of Eisenhower's own campaign oratory last fall in Louisville, when Candidate Ike said: "It is high time that we had real and positive policies in the world that we understand . . . We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words."
In Mexico City, former U.S. Ambassador William O'Dwyer, 62, sent a statement to the press announcing what he has been denying for several months: his marriage to ex-Manhattan Model Sloan Simpson is on the rocks. The "marriage made in heaven" (1949) showed signs of cracking soon after ex-Mayor O'Dwyer refused to return to New York to answer grand-jury questions about his administration. There were also romantic rumors linking Sloan, some 25 years her husband's junior, to Millionaire Socialite Fred Weicker of the Squibb drug family. The week after O'Dwyer resigned his ambassadorship, Sloan moved out to live with a friend. Last week the Catholic Archbishop of Mexico approved the temporary separation "while a careful study is being made in regard to definitive canonical separation."