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It irritated some folks in California that Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, 60, should have all those millions of dollars' worth of free publicity in her campaign for the Republican nomination for state treasurer. Her real name has been Stevens ever since she married Real Estate Man Sidney Stevens four years ago, griped a Los Angeles registered nurse. Nonsense, said Ivy, "I've been using Ivy Baker Priest all along," because she also has all the U.S. currency printed during the Eisenhower Administration circulating the name, which she signed as U.S. Treasurer. At last, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Burnett Wolf son ruled that Ivy's tender old name is legal.
Queen Elizabeth had been Christmas shopping among all the other jostling customers at Harrods department store in London. But when Harrods heard that the Beatles were coming, they arranged a privilege not granted to royalty, allowed the ragmopheads to do their buying after hours behind locked doors. While Harrods thus averted a mob scene, the boys were having trouble staging a riot sale on their own goodies. "Beatle John Lennon wishes to dispose of his 1965 Ferrari 330GT," went the ad in the New York Times, and just below, there was Beatle George Harrison wishing to dispose of his 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Saloon. Sad to say, none of the faithful has so far been able to squeak together the total asking price of $27,580.