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Sweden's scholarly King Gustaf VI Adolph, 72, flew to Britain for a week's prowling in museums and art galleries, wound up his stay by picking up an honor ary Doctor of Letters degree at Oxford University for his pioneering spadework as an archaeologist.
Johns Hopkins University Professor Owen Lattimore, Far East expert still under federal charges that he lied to a Congressional committee about his Red ties, got his passport renewed. This cleared the way for Lattimore to accept bids to lecture this summer at four English universities and other West European schools.
Dejected and fretful when his diplomatic credentials failed to arrive in Bonn in time for Sovereignty Day (TIME, May 16), new Ambassador to West Germany James Bryant Conant perked up last week when his Senate confirmation finally showed up. Long a U.S. diplomatic step child as High Commissioner, Harvard's ex-president jubilantly sped off to Bad Kissingen, where West Germany's old (71) President Theodor Heuss was vacationing. Heuss, who had reckoned that the presentation ceremony could wait until he was back on the job, bowed to American haste. He accepted Conant's papers, congratulated him, but barred photographers from snapping any pictures of the un ceremonious ceremony.
Along with 24 other military policemen at Alaska's Fort Richardson, Army Private First Class G. (for Gerard) David Schine, 27, of last year's Army-McCarthy ruckus, was upped to corporal, got his pay raised to $122.30 a month.
* To keep in suing trim, Gina last year got entangled in suits involving 1) ownership of a house, 2) a Turin vermouth firm (for using her picture to advertise its wine), 3) a radiologist (who charged that Gina had welched on a 15,000 lire X-ray bill).