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For years some 300,000 items from the bulging correspondence and papers of Warren G. Harding lay gathering dust in the basement of the 29th President's home in Marion, Ohio. "But historians have been clamoring for them," says Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, 82-year-old son of Harding's personal physician and head of the Harding Memorial Association. Now the Association has donated the entire lot to the Ohio Historical Society, which plans to move all 157 ft. of file cases to Columbus for sorting and cataloguing.
Setting the tone of his six-day pleasure jaunt to Paris, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, 29, spoke at a luncheon in Deauville: "The world is divided into two fiercely hostile clans—men and women." Thus went the playful new party line. Gagarin enjoyed dinner at Maxim's, rampant vaudeville and slender nudes at the Lido, and accepted the Silver Medal of the City of Paris (also awarded by proxy to U.S. Astronaut John Glenn). Next trip will be to Mexico City, with a stopover in New York, where Yuri may bump into a comrade, Spacegirl Valentino Tereshkova, 26, and have to explain that battle-of-the-sexes remark. Last week in Havana, Valentina was telling Cubans that she and Yuri have booked His and Hers berths on Russia's first manned rocket to the moon.
Eunice Shriver, 41, the President's sister, is expecting her fourth child in February.
Her professional TV debut, Elizabeth Taylor in London, earned its star a tidy $250,000 in mad money, but otherwise the Thameside travelogue proved largely a bust. Overdressed (in gowns by Yves St. Laurent) and overshadowed (on the upper eyelids), Liz occasionally seemed over her head as she struggled with recitations from Keats, Shakespeare and Sir Winston Churchill. Meanwhile, down Mexico way, her knight of the Iguana, Richard Burton, 37, acted tame as a lamb. Gossip columnists eager to thicken the off-screen plot of Tennessee Williams' lusty epic kept an eye on pert co-Star Sue (Lolita) Lyon, 17. But Dickie stayed cool with a cold beer, displayed no passion, except for one minor outburst when Sue muffed her lines. Never far away was Liz, who interrupted one scene because she thought Burton sounded tired. "Oh, it's nothing, luv," said he, and the show went on.