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His first $75 million design for a National Cultural Center was given short shrift as "too grandiose," so Architect Edward Durell Stone, 60, went back to the drawing board to take a narrower view. Unveiled at a ceremony at Newport. R.I.. the model of his second effort, a $30 million job with white marble facade, three huge halls with a seating capacity of nearly 7,000, and a roof garden with two restaurants, won high praise from Jacqueline Kennedy, honorary co-chairman with Mamie Eisenhower of the fund drive to bring a first permanent home for the performing arts to the nation's capital. To entertain the clutch of millionaires at the proceedings was triple-tongued Comedian Danny Kaye, who convulsed the crowd with a bashful bow to Jackie and then, more seriously, thanked the First Lady for "making writers, actors and musicians feel they are ten feet tall." ∙ ∙ ∙
Anyone with a capitalistic name like Ford might have expected it. Having finished a new film on the Riviera, Cinemactor Glenn Ford, 46, decided on a jaunt to East Berlin for a "look at Communism." Crossing over at Checkpoint Charlie, the actor was detained for the usual currency check, told to take all the money from his pockets and count it out on a table. Out came bill after bill—$1,000 in all. "Aha," said the bug-eyed Vopo, "so you are the man who makes the motor cars." "Oh no," said Ford, "not that Ford." He added: "Pretty soon they had a dozen guards standing there. None of them would believe me. Finally I admitted that I was Henry Ford. That made them happy that they had been right all along, and they let me go." ∙∙∙ Her 4-ft. brunette tresses done up in a "ladylike" bun to support her titleholder's tiara, Miss America of 1963, Jacquelyn Jeanne Mayer, 20, flashed a dimpled smile for the folks back in Sandusky, Ohio, the morning after that last grueling strut across the stage at Atlantic City. The course to the crown was not easy, Jackie admitted. Back in high school she was a 150-lb. fatty. But four years of saying no to such favorite foods as chocolate icebox cake had slimmed her down to a perfect combination: 36-22-36 and 115 Ibs.
Arthritic Dame Sybil of Sank
Banned cars from her island so stark, But her son-in-law Malcolm, Without a "you're welcome," Swiped her power wheelchair for a lark.