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Half a world apart, two new U.S. envoys observed similar diplomatic traditions in their first official meetings with heads of state. In London U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John Hay Whitney, just short of 60 years after his grandfather John Hay took over the post, hied himself to Buckingham Palace, there presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. Noting that officials of the U.S. embassy have been criticized for concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real zest for getting around, would bring a "new start in this respect." The Telegraph also retrospectively hailed "the new Ambassador's firm break with the more absurd social conventions of New York society." In Tokyo, meanwhile, Career Diplomat Douglas MacArthur II, bearer of a name that still inspires respect in Japan, rode in an imperial household coach to the royal palace, there presented his papers to his uncle's good friend, Emperor Hirohito.
In a maternal dispatch from Monaco, Princess (High Society) Grace issued a bulletin on the development of five-week-old Princess Caroline, christened at week's end. Straight from the royal cradle: "Little Caroline does not suck her thumb . . . She certainly does not suck all her fingers, as some monster suggested . . . She hates hats . . . She also has a prejudice against her father's camera . . . They say she is a very pretty child, but how should I know?"
Jaded Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, 62, creaked into Manhattan from his suburban sanctuary to attend the wedding of his most recent (ninth) exwife, sometime Burlesqueen Anita Roddy-Eden, 34, and India-born Cinemactor John (Tonight We Raid Calais) Sutton. Making a grand entrance at the scene of the civil ceremony, a hotel library, Anita gazed fondly at her discarded mate and his successor, cooed: "Darlings, I want you both!" Quipped the groom: "Have you got an extra wedding ring, Tommy? I forgot mine." Later, Playboy Manville recalled the nuptials with elation: "It was the happiest day of my life—a wedding where I did not get married!"