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The photographer said he was more interested in glamour, elegance and social position than he was in pure beauty. And on those counts, Lee Radziwill, 30, handily qualified for Philippe Halsman's gallery of eight of Europe's loveliest women, which appeared in Paris Match. Winding up his six-week study of the ladies, he found Lee in her London home, popped her into a Castillo evening gown and clicked away. "She has an extremely interesting and beautiful face," he said afterward. But presumably not all that fascinating to the editors of McCall's, who had eleven months ago run a fashion piece on her. With an abridged version of the gallery in the coming issue, they chopped Lee (and Monaco's Princess Grace) from the roster.
On the day after Christmas, 1944, the first troops under the command of firebrand General George S. Patton broke through besieging Germans to relieve the hard-pressed U.S. defenders of Bastogne, where General Anthony McAuliffe had greeted surrender demands with the now classic "Nuts." Last week, in Bastogne, Belgians honored the memory with a statue of Patton dedicated "to the glory of a great leader who put his stamp on the history of his time." And across the border, an unusual kudos went to Patton's onetime enemy on the beaches of Normandy, West German General Hans Speidel, 65, recently retired commander of NATO's central European land forces; he was made the first honorary member of the crack U.S. Seventh Army.
The $58 million federal project that will create Texas' largest fresh water lake has been known as McGee Bend Dam since 1956. Now, with the presidential signing of a congressional bill, its name becomes the Sam Rayburn Dam, honoring the late House Speaker who "devotedly and ably served this nation in the Congress for 50 years."
Everything about the party was high. It took place at 33,000 ft. aboard a DC-8 en route from Montreal to Paris. The cake was in the shape of a straw hat, and the nightlong free champagne was Moët et Chandon 1955. It was Trans Canada Air Lines' way of bidding happy birthday to Maurice Chevalier, 75. Said the septuagenarian on landing: "I haven't closed my eyes since I left Montreal, but I don't feel tired at all." Will he ever retire? "I'd like to do a movie with Brigitte Bardot," he said.