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HE'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR A KELLY, groused the Trib. "She is too well bred a girl to marry the silent partner in a gambling parlor." But the editorial saw some hope: one day Britain's Prince Charles might marry a daughter of Grace, and "with an infusion of Irish blood, the British royal family might become more adept in the art of governing." Among the Tribune's bedfellows was the Communist Daily Worker's Joseph North, who seemed hurt that Grace had chosen a mate "who can't lay bricks ... or act ... or write plays ... or row a boat." Another class-conscious objector appeared in a Daily Mirror survey of New York Kellys. Said a Flatbush Avenue Kelly: "He's not even in her class." Others who disapproved: Long Island's Newsday, and the Denver Post (BENEATH HER STATION). In Britain, while slobbering over the romance, London's tabloid Daily Sketch let its columnist Candidus complain righteously about the "vulgarization" of it all. The Manchester Guardian, with a sense of fitness of things, headlined the story: PRINCE RAINIER ENGAGED. Tin Pun Alley. The loudest cackles came, of course, from the columnists. In New York, the News's Robert Sylvester asked: "Will the towels at the royal palace in Monaco be marked 'His and Heirs'?" In Chicago, the Sun-Times's Irv Kupcinet cracked: "It isn't the romance that interests Miss Kelly—it's the principality of the thing." Guffawed Hollywood's Daily Variety: "Show business wonders how Grace will do at the palace," and the U.P.'s Aline Mosby reported: "MGM's executives . . . are worried that she will fly off to Monte Carlo and be seen henceforth only on postage stamps." Columnist Hedda Hopper said right out loud: "[Her] friends are completely baffled; half of them don't believe she and the Prince will ever reach the altar."