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Sharing the bill in the Broadway debut of Liz's estranged husband. Crooner Eddie Fisher, 34. was Frankie's ex-fiancée, South African Dancer Juliet Prowse, 26, who displayed vast areas of skin and even more gall. She pranced onstage as a barely garbed Joan of Arc and slithered her way through a song that pictured the saint as a call girl; then she turned up in some Egyptian gauze and launched into Cleo, the Nympho of the Nile, ending with a belly dance that would have fazed Farouk. Snorted one of the critics giving the show a universal pan: "Aside from getting 'A' for anatomy and 'E' for effrontery, Miss Prowse should do herself a favor: forget her career and take Frank Sinatra up on his marriage proposal."
With just three quarters of study needed to qualify for his bachelor's degree in Ohio State University's College of Commerce, burly Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 22, already assured of a $250,000 income in his rookie year as a pro, was all set to put aside his driver and hit the books. But the academic fairway proved full of traps. The school's dean ruled that because the U.S. Open champ was committed to three weeks of golfing exhibitions during the fall term, he must cancel them or withdraw; his instructors felt that he "could not miss that much class time." The edict riled Nicklaus. an insurance major with average grades. "I don't like to be told I can't go to school," he said. "I've missed classes to play golf every quarter I've been at Ohio State, and I feel I could meet my commitments and still do the required work."
Honored by the German Society for Photography, the world's foremost photographic organization: LIFE Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, 63. who returned to his native Germany for the first time in 27 years to accept a symbolic optical lens with an 18-carat gold rim and a $1.250 cash prize "as a photojournalist who has caught in pictures the world happenings and events of the last decades with rare feeling."
At his 22-room mansion in Providence, former Senator Theodore Francis Green, who retired last year as the oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Senate, spent his 95th birthday sorting through stacks of greeting cards, gifts of German beer and vintage Rhine wines for his well-stocked cellar. Then, after a brief celebration with old friends, the venerable Green dictated a congratulatory birthday telegram to another Democratic patriarch: Arizona's Carl Hayden, 85, the oldest man now serving in the Senate.
Ill lay: Charles Laughton, 63, jowly, stentorian actor, spending his third month in a Hollywood hospital suffering from what his doctors now announce is cancer of the lower spine; Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, whose annual week-long checkup at a Manhattan hospital was extended for treatment of an infectious lung condition; Edward R. Murrow, 54, chain-smoking chief of the U.S. Information Agency, in a U.S. Army hospital in Teheran, Iran, with a "mild" case of pneumonia; Otto E. Passman, 62. congressional foe of foreign aid. who tripped over some plastic clothing bags in his Washington office and broke his left arm in four places.