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With the same old self-derision about the same old family weakness, erratic Actress Diana Barrymore, 34, daughter of boozy Great Profile John Barrymore, wryly confessed to New York Post Gossipist Earl Wilson that John Barleycorn has thrown her for another fall, announced that she has voluntarily signed herself into a suburban sanitarium for six months. Asked if she had ever talked about drinking with her bibulous daddy, Diana hiccuped ("it must be that asparagus"): "Sure, but I wasn't very old then —just old enough to mix his drinks . . . At that time I drank like people . . . Now I drink like a giraffe."
One of those rare girls who can stand up and take a bow all at once, Actress Jayne Mansfield, star of the Broadway hit Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (TIME, Oct. 24), stood up and took a bow for Underwear-Negligee Associates, Inc., which, convening in Manhattan, named her "Miss Negligee of 1956."
Noted Indianapolis Philanthropist Josiah K. Lilly Jr., retired Pharmaceuticals tycoon (Eli Lilly & Co.), gave his rare books, one of the last great private collections of its kind, to Indiana University (his alma mater: the University of Michigan, class of '14). Among the rarities, valued at about $5,000,000 and catapulting the worth of Indiana's library far above that of any other Midwestern university: the first printed chronicles of the travels of Columbus, De Soto and Cortez, the Caxton edition (circa 1478) of the Canterbury Tales, four Shakespeare folios, a tidy bundle of Robert Burns's original manuscripts.
The University of Illinois picked up a good bargain for $30,000: Illinois-born Poet Carl Sandberg's private library, now housed at Sandburg's North Carolina goat farm. Items: reams of Lincolniana (including the manuscripts of three volumes of Sandburg's works on Lincoln), revised manuscripts of Sandburg's Complete Poems and his yet unpublished Song Bag, Sandburg's correspondence with a galaxy of fellow poets, as well as with such letter writers as Evangelist Billy Sunday and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
A composer who long ago wrote a ditty in which he relished the prospect of murdering the bugler arose without a whimper to go to a dawn patrol breakfast in Manhattan. There, bifocaled (67) Songwriter Irving Berlin was given a silver beaver award by the local council of the
Boy Scouts of America. Early Riser Berlin was honored for setting up a fund to boost both Boy Scout and Girl Scout groups with proceeds from his longtime hit (and sometime unofficial national anthem) God Bless America.
At week's end Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin had been absent, without explanation, from the Moscow public eye for twelve days.
A Baltimore court appraised the estate of the late Aircraft Pioneer Glenn L Martin (TIME, Dec. 12), set its value at some $16 million—the largest estate ever probated in Baltimore. Items: $14,300,000 in stocks and bonds, $500,000 in cash, 3,000 acres (mostly a game preserve) on Maryland's Eastern Shore, a Baltimore mansion, and other choice real estate.