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Frau Lucie Maria Rommel, whose late swashbuckling husband, Germany's Field Marshal Erwin ("Desert Fox") Rommel, tried mightily to invade Egypt in 1942, invaded Egypt without firing a shot. In Cairo to help ballyhoo the world premiere of a new German movie That Was Our Rommel, Frau Lucie sat beside Egypt's President Mohammed Naguib at the showing, was also greeted cordially by Premier Gamal Nasser. Later she placed wreaths on war memorials to both Allied and Axis soldiers at El Alamein, where Rommel lost the crucial battle of the North African campaign.
The Netherlands' speed-loving Prince Bernhard hurtled along a Dutch road in his royal Lincoln. Bernhard's chauffeur sat at his side, idly watching the kilometers flit past. While trying to pass a road-hogging truck, the prince zigged when he should have zagged, wound up with the car doing a neat half rollover, followed by a ground-chewing landing on its side. The unperturbed chauffeur ceremoniously opened the door for unhurt Bernhard, who climbed out, hitchhiked to a gas station, phoned the royal garage for a fresh car.
Perennially best-dressed Mrs. Mono Williams, 57, widow of Utilitycoon Harrison Williams and chief heir to his reported $100 million, opened a flower and fruit stand on the grounds of her 60-acre Long Island estate. Planning to peddle the products of her own gardens and orchards, she saw no good reason why the rich should not grow richer. Said she: "It's not just for fun. I hope the shop will pay for itself. You don't go into business unless you plan to make money."
From Kentucky, word trickled out that Private G. (for Gerard) David Schine, whose failure to become an Army officer has stirred some talk lately, has been a full-fledged colonel all along. His spot commission (in Kentucky only) came a year ago as a result of a request from his friend Colonel Anna Friedman, whose own lofty office is Keeper of the Great Seal of Kentucky Colonels.