PEOPLE
In the Music Room of Buckingham Palace, Dr. Geoffrey F. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, using water from the River Jordan, baptized lace-robed Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, the seven-week-old baby who stands second in line of succession to the British throne. Before the royal family and 60 guests, the archbishop turned to Prince Andrew's five godparents, including the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alexandra, and intoned: "Dost thou, in the name of this child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all the covetous desires of the same, and the carnal desires of the flesh so that thou wilt not follow nor be led by them?'' Replied the godparents in unison: "I will renounce them all'
Is the Supreme Court of the U.S. overworked? By many an outsider's accounting, it is woefully burdened with an ever-mounting case load. But last week a veteran insider, Associate Justice William O. Douglas, offered a dissenting opinion. Speaking at the Cornell University Law School, Douglas said: "I don't recall any time in my 20 years or more of service on the court when we had more time for research, deliberation, debate and meditation." The number of cases filed in the court has nearly doubled in the past two decades, but Douglas attributed most of the increase to a "flood" of paupers' claims, "for the most part frivolous and often fantastic." Most such cases are swiftly decided, and the court has streamlined many of its other functions. The upshot, according to Douglas: "We have fewer oral arguments than we once had, fewer opinions to write and shorter weeks to work."
The most twittering lovebirds of the year. Remington Typewriter Heiress Gamble Benedict, 19. and her Rumanian-born ex-chauffeur. Andrei Porumbeanu. 35, rushed off from Manhattan to South Carolina with matrimony in mind. Gamble's watchful grandma, Katharine Harper Benedict, soon swung into action, successfully blocked their plans to marry in South Carolina. But Granny could do little to halt issuance of a marriage license to the couple in North Carolina, where they then journeyed. Technically, Andrei had run off with the ward of a Manhattan court, but. armed with proof of his very recent Mexican divorce. Porumbeanu made "Gambi" his bride. At that point, Grandma Benedict gave up the fight, said she was washing her hands of the pair.
Planning a return to West German stages after a 30-year absence, Berlin-born Glamour Girl Marlene Dietrich, 55. was aware that her'reception might be chilly. Reason: during and after World War II, Grandma Marlene damned Hitler and his works so roundly that many Germans still believe she is downright anti-German. Marlene's impending return created a spate of mumbling in the West German press. She shrugged it off: "The only thing I'm really afraid of is eggs. I have a swans-down coat, and if an egg ever hits it, I don't know what I'll do. You couldn't clean it in a million years."