After his Mexican "vacation" fiasco with Cinemactress Ava Gardner, Crooner Frank Sinatra turned up in Reno, called reporters in to make his peace with the press and hand out a bit of news: he will sing in Nevada nightclubs for six weeks, then start his own divorce proceedings against wife Nancy. But somehow everyone was beginning to find the whole affair a little wearisome. Yawned the New York Daily News in a one-sentence editorial: "Anybody know of a bigger bore just now than Frank Sinatra?"
After 14 years of marriage to onetime Heavyweight Puncher Lou Nova, his wife decided she wanted a divorce. Among the reasons: his habit of putting his bare feet on the dining room table next to his mother-in-law's lemon meringue pie.
When Manhattan reporters caught Doris Duke stepping off the same plane with Playboy Pat di Cicco, they asked the routine question, got a routine answer: "I just happened to meet him aboard the plane. I hadn't seen him for years and I hardly recognized him. I was glad to have somebody to talk with, but every time I talk to someone they try to make a romance out of it."
In Portland, Ore., photographers gathered to record the second birthday of Nicholas Delano Seagraves, first great-grandchild of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Young Nicholas, a husky 30-pounder, obliged by mounting a one-eared toy donkey and flashing a smile that had more than passing resemblance to great-grandmother Eleanor. "He loves to eat," said his mother, the former "Sistie" Dall, "and there isn't anything he doesn't like. He has all the teeth he's supposed to have, but I don't know just how many that is."
Affairs of State
Off for a holiday rest, Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee arrived at a resort hotel in Jotunheimen, Norway, where 25 fellow countrymen on tour greeted him with a burst of song ("For he's a jolly good fellow"). Later, starting out on a mountain hike, the Prime Minister firmly refused to wear sunglasses. Said he to his wife: "It seems to me that the world looks too gloomy through them."
In San Remo, Italy, members of the honeymoon party bubbled with the news that 17-year-old Queen Narriman, who married Egypt's Playboy King Farouk last May, is expecting a child.
In Washington, while a crowd of curious underlings looked on, Secretary of State Dean Acheson walked into the department's cafeteria, took his place in line, loaded up a tray and enjoyed a hearty lunch. The food, he announced afterwards, is just as good as he is used to in the private dining room upstairs, if not better—"It's hotter."
In San Sebastian, U.S. Ambassador to Spain Stanton Griffis told why he has taken to toting a .38-cal. automatic along to the beach when he goes swimming: police told him that an anti-Franco group had threatened his life.