At Michigan's Huron Mountain Club, where they have been reading, picnicking and canoeing for the last month, Mr. & Mrs. George Catlett Marshall posed for one of the few informal pictures taken of them (see cut) since the old warrior stepped down as Secretary of State in January 1949.
At the half during the semi-final match for the West Sussex Polo Cup, the Royal Navy's Admiral Earl Mountbatten and his nephew Prince Philip took time out to chat with Countess Mountbatten (see cut). Final score: Beechwood 3½, Royal Navy 1, with Philip scoring the navy's one & only goal.
Back in Hollywood after wowing 'em at the Palladium, Frankie Sinatra had some good words to say for Prince Philip's sister-in-law, Princess Margaret, whom he met at a London garden party (TIME, July 24). "She's just as 'hep' as any American girl," the crooner crooned. "She'd be a smash if she came to this country. She'd be the best Ambassador England ever had."
With elephantine grace, Egypt's corpulent King Farouk waddled through another week of festivities at the French seaside resort of Deauville. He played baccarat, attended the races, acted as judge of a bathing beauty contest, downed quantities of frogs' legs and lobster, received two Egyptian Channel swimmers (see SPORT), and smilingly suffered a Parisian nightclub songstress to clip off his black tie when he would not rise and follow her to the dance floor. Across the Channel, the British press cocked a scornful eye at the goings-on. "Never," sniffed the London Daily Mirror, "have modesty and anonymity so ruthlessly been done to death. Never have solitude and dignity been so cruelly scrubbed out."
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"Nightclubs, I hate 'em," grumped Humphrey ("Bogey") Bogart, who hasn't been kicked out of one since last September, when his stuffed giant panda got into a tug-o'-war with a brunette in Manhattan's El Morocco (TIME, Oct. 10). "The trouble with them is that you see the same old tired faces, the same drunks and the same dames."
Answering a reader who asked if John Roosevelt, 34, president of Lee Pharmacal Co., Inc., isn't a Republican, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in McCall's that he "is one of the members of our family who has no interest whatever in politics ... I notice, however, that [he] . . . has taken considerable interest in his brother James's campaign for the nomination for governor of California ... so he is at least interested in one Democrat!"
"It's much more harmonious here today, from an architectural standpoint," decided Sir Laurence Olivier, after absenting himself from Hollywood a while. "In 1930, it made me dizzy to find an Arab mosque looking unflinchingly at an English abbey."
U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas beamingly accepted an LL.D. from Edinburgh University, pleasantly surprised the onlookers by revealing just how Scottish he is. His great-grandfather learned medicine and surgery in Edinburgh, said Douglas, and "here my grandfather was twice a student in your university, and met not far from here the gentle lady who was to be my grandmother."