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The family and a few close friends gathered in Balmoral Castle, Scotland, to help Princess Margaret celebrate her 21st birthday. The highlight of her coming-of-age party: the cutting of the royal cake, a 30-pound, twelve-sided baker's delight, each side decorated with a sign of the zodiac, the main panel showing Leo, the Princess' own sign, and the top iced with the pattern of her personal standard and planted with 21 silver candles, silver roses and Scotch thistles. Among the guests: Billy Wallace, Lord Ogilvy and the Earl of Dalkeith—her three favorite suitors.
Justice William O. Douglas, who had 23 ribs cracked when his horse fell on him two years ago, had another horse kick him in the shin last year, arrived in New Delhi after a hike through the Himalayan mountains. The record this time: one toss from a frisky yak, two falls from a mule. Damage: a sprained wrist, an aching back.
Former Screen Moppet Margaret O'Brien, her familiar pigtails fluffed out in a new coiffure and looking quite grownup for 14, stopped in Manhattan enroute to Britain long enough to give photographers a teen-age pose. She plans to return in October for a four-month tour (at $3,500 a week) doing scenes from Shakespeare, Cinderella and Alice.
Vacationing in Venice, Winston Churchill was behaving in a strangely camera-shy fashion. An Italian newsreel cameraman managed to get some pictures, only to lose them when a bodyguard snatched the film. Two other photographers in a rowboat had better luck when they caught Churchill in the surf, where the only thing he could do was splash water at them. He cooled his nerves later in the casino, where he played roulette until 2 a.m. and won £150.
On the eve of his three-week vacation from congressional worries, House Speaker Sam Rayburn heard some bad news from his home in Bonham, Texas: 5,000 bales of his summer hay, stored in a barn before it was cured, had caught fire by spontaneous combustion, burned down the barn, crop and all.