Names make news. Lest week these names made this news:
Adlai Stevenson, at the final turn of his world tour, put down in London for two weeks of sightseeing, partygoing, talks with high officials, and quiet days of writing in the English countryside. In rented morning dress ($5.88) and topper ($1.12), Stevenson bustled off to a Buckingham Palace garden party, met Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Margaret, with whom he had a "delightful conversation." An enthusiastic patter of applause came from the British press, including a left-handed compliment from the Manchester Guardian that he was not at all like the movie-type American. "His tie is quiet, his aspect unhurried ... He speaks without an aggressively American accent."
A 144-ft. transmitting tower put up on his Leesburg, Va. farm just behind the chicken coop, this week returned to the radio & television faithful the freckled face and barefoot voice of Arthur Godfrey, in the pink, but still on crutches after his celebrated Boston hip operation.
In Honolulu, sometime Violinist Jack (Love in Bloom) Benny got together after 45 years with his old violin teacher, retired Yale Professor Hugo Kortschak, who remembered him as 14-year-old Benny Kubelsky at the Chicago Musical College. "My, how you've grown," said the professor. Benny, a grown-up 59, recalled that he "was crazy to be a concert violinist. But I'm like most golfers—I like to play, but I never practiced." After the chat, the professor remarked on the pity of it all: "He probably would have gone far. He showed a lot of promise."
Facing an inheritance-tax bite of an estimated $750,000 to $1,000,000 on his late wife's estate, Bing Crosby bowed out of racing to raise some hard cash. Of his 65 race horses put up for auction in Hollywood, 58 were sold in two days for $85,000, which Crosby will split with his partner, Sportsman Lin Howard. Under California's community property law, Mrs Crosby owned half of Bing's vast holdings (oil, real estate, frozen juice), putting him in the position of paying federal and state inheritance taxes on property he had piled up himself. At his Nevada ranch, Bing shrugged, "Taxes are taxes."
Nearing the end of a three-month globe-trot, Eleanor Roosevelt, 68, spent a weekend with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, 61, at his summer retreat on the Adriatic, later told how fine it was that Yugoslavia had "so young-feeling a man" as its leader. "His sort of whimsy and youth is a fortunate thing for the nation."
In a pep talk to greeting-card artists in Kansas City, Mo., Magazine Illustrator Norman Rockwell bared his soul: "I'm not the inspired type of artist who can't sleep and eat for thoughts of his work. I've never missed a meal yet. I sleep and eat and still get inspired."