Making his own crowd at the Seattle World's Fair, Kansas Rancher Glenn Cun ningham, 52, world's greatest miler in the 1930s, took in the sights with his wife, their nine children, and an orphan boy whom he is caring for at his Cedar Point spread. Cunningham ran 20 races in less than 4 min. 10 sec., a time that college milers beat regularly today, and the former Kansas flash saw no end to the improvement. "They'll get the time under 3:48," a full 6.4 sec. better than the current world mark, he said, and nominated one candidate for the feat: 14-year-old Glenn Jr. Said Glenn Sr.: "He can out run most of the high school kids in his home country right now." Ambling along East Side Manhattan, Visitor Harry S Truman allowed to re porters as how they are in error when they write a period after his middle initial.
The 5 is not an initial but a name, he insisted, and therefore a period is not required. However, he added with a grin, "there are some who put an a in front of it and add a second s." All that jazz was getting on Nikita's nerves, so Soviet officials started bugging Benny Goodman and his touring boys.
First they stopped an RCA recording crew and an NBC-TV team from taping a Black Sea blast in the resort of Sochi, then they banned the distribution of B.C. buttons, next they arrested a fan for fraternizing with foreigners ("We will be lucky if we see him again," mused a bystander), and finally they tried to bar Benny's ig-year-old daughter Rachel from going backstage, thinking she was one of the local cats. Said Good-Wilier Good man: "It shows a terrible weakness on their part, doesn't it?" Back from an eleven-day Far Eastern swing, Thomas J. Deegan Jr., 51, chair man of the $225 million New York World's Fair of 1964-65, had reason to gloat. Private groups in Britain, France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands had just ordered space for exhibits. South Korea signed up, and so did Japan and Hong Kong. With those additions, the total number of nations that will be represented climbed to 66.
In the grand old tradition of kiss-and-sell, sultry Parisian Singer Juliette Greco, 35, let upwards of 10 million European readers in on the details of her four-year whirl with Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck, 59, who took her from cellar cafes to stardom in The Roots of Heaven. "What can a young woman see in an elderly tycoon with a toothbrush mustache, who smokes like a chimney, speaks through his nose and is perpetually angry?" asked Juliette in serialized memoirs in Paris Match and London's weekly People. The answer, said she, was that "I have always loved lost causes. He was like an orphan to me. I was attracted by that poor little rich man who was in some ways blind, deaf and dumb." The old Romeo's reply to sweet Juliette: a $20,000 damage suit for making him look "ridiculous."