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Still chasing records after 30 years of flying, blonde Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, 56, zippered into a blue flying suit and zipped out of New Orleans at the controls of a four-jet Lockheed Jetstar named Scarlett O'Hara. In Hanover, West Germany, 5,120 miles later (average speed: 489 m.p.h.), Cosmetics Queen Cochran, a onetime beauty-parlor odd-jobs girl who now owns Jacqueline Cochran, Inc., slipped into a suitably stylish Easter outfit, then stepped out to claim no fewer than 49 new flight records. (She already holds the ladies' speed mark: 842.6 m.p.h. in an Air Force T-38 jet.) Major new record claimed: longest straight-line distance in a jet piloted by a woman—2,279 miles from New Orleans to a refueling stop in Gander, Nfld.
A cum laude student at Williams who turned to interpreting another Williams on Broadway (Cat) and in Hollywood (Streetcar}, Method Director Elia Kazan, 52, finally won a scholastic laurel that eluded him when he graduated in 1930. For having brought "unfailingly high standards to all he has touched," "Gadge" Kazan was granted honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
"With me, everybody is a double act." cigar-chomping Comedian George Burns, 66, once said, and after 36 years as straight man to Gracie Allen's scatterbrained whimsy in the durable double act of Burns & Allen, it was hard for him to imagine being on his own. That was just where he found himself four years ago, when Wife Gracie, 56, decided to retire.
Last week Burns announced that he would debut next month at the Seattle World's Fair with a new double act. His partner: Comedienne Carol Charming, 41 ,the overgrown (5 ft. 9 in.) pixy who was diamond-digging Lorelei Lee in Broadway's long-running Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
The Eternal City was growing weary of the eternal triangle. "This vamp who destroys families and shucks husbands like a praying mantis," said Rome's Il Tempo, should be tossed out of Italy as an "undesirable." But Elizabeth Taylor, 30, and Richard Burton, 36, only went as far as a fishing village on the Tyrrhenian coast.
Two days later, Liz was back in Rome, and back in the hospital—recuperating from a lovers' quarrel that included what looked mighty like a black eye. At that, blonde Sybil Burton turned up in town to see if she could bring her wayward Welshman to heel, had their four-year-old daughter Kate flown in for added persuasion. "I'm finished," wailed Liz, gobbling sedatives "for my nerves." Not quite. 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra still has the big suicide scene to shoot. The asp was waiting.
New York City snowed him under by 402,980 votes last Nov. 7, but San Juan., P.R., proved fair and warm for New York State Attorney General Louis J. Leflcowitz, 57. At its annual convention there, the National Association of Attorneys General elected as its president the G.O.P.'s luckless 1961 mayoral candidate.
Stilling a susurrus of speculation about her reasons for returning to Hollywood, Princess Grace, 32, postponed her comeback for at least a year—only to stir more talk about her reasons for staying away.