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The little Norwegian fishing town of Sogne prepared for the biggest social event of its history. The local girl who made good use of her stay in the U.S., Anne-Marie ("Mia") Rasmussen, 21, and her fiance, Steven Rockefeller, 23, son of New York's Governor, seemed calmer than anyone else about their wedding. But to evade newshounds, they frequently took to the hills, abandoned Steve's telltale motorcycle for a car, fled from a restaurant right after the soup when a photographer surprised them at the table. Young Rockefeller's parents, once the employers of Mia in their Manhattan town house, were expected to arrive in Sogne this week in good time to help plan the nuptials, reception and banquet.
Glamorous Grandma Marlene Dietrich winged into Buenos Aires on the second leg of her first Latin American tour. At a cozy press conference (some 300 newshounds, fake journalists and curiosity seekers) Marlene proved as entertaining as ever. Q. How do you maintain your youth? A. Work. Q. What do you do when you don't work? A. (Marlene smiled and stroked the head of her piano accompanist, Friedman Bachrach, 30, seated by her.) Q. So that's it? A. (Still smiling, she nodded.) Q. What else do you do besides sing and act? A. Counsel the lovelorn. Q. Why do you specialize so much in love? A. Because it is the only important thing. Q. Do you plan to write your memoirs? A. No, I am not an exhibitionist. Q. What do you fear most? A. Death.
After 3½ years and nearly 1,500 performances of My Fair Lady in Manhattan and London, Musicomedienne Julie Andrews stepped out of the Cinderella role of Eliza Doolittle for the last time in London's Drury Lane Theater. Confessed Julie: "I never really got the part under control. I got very close to it sometimes."
A plastic surgeon in Tokyo caddishly blabbed that the bosom of the new Miss Universe, Japan's Akiko Kojima, is bolstered with interior plastics, declared that he had given shapely (37-23-38) Akiko injections just before she went to California. The doctor's statement drew a blushing denial from Akiko, got a stormy rise out of her mother. "Terrible! Terrible!" cried Mrs. Hisako Kojima. "How could she have had an operation? She's the same size as last year!"