People: Nov. 2, 1962

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Atop a windswept hill overlooking the Israeli capital of Jerusalem. Canadian Distiller Samuel Bronfman, 71, president of Seagram's Ltd., laid the cornerstone for an archaeological and Biblical museum that will bear his name. The museum was started with a donation of $1,000,000 from Bronfman's two sons and two daughters, who gave the money as a 70th birthday gift to their father. As an orchestra played O Canada, Israel's doughty Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, 76, dedicated the building with a speech in Hebrew, then lapsed into English. "I want to tell Mr. Bronfman," said Ben-Gurion, "that with all his money—I don't know how much he has but it's certainly more than I have—he cannot get a real personal share in Israel unless and until one of his children or grandchildren lives permanently in this country." Bronfman took the old Zionist's lefthanded thank you with good grace. Later his wife Saidye pulled Ben-Gurion aside to tell him that another grandchild was on the way. "Maybe," she said, "that one will settle here."

Every year the officials at sedate old Wimbledon endured more gaudy breeches of decorum. Shapely Tennis Player Karol Fageros, 28, took the gallery's eye off her serve with a pair of 24-carat gold-cloth panties that were later auctioned off for $70. Then Southern Belle Laura Lou Kunnen, 29, loyally stitched a Confederate flag to her undies. The living end was Brazil's Maria Bueno, 22, the 1959 and 1960 champion, who scandalized the crowd at this year's championships with a display of "shocking pink" briefs worn under a flapping "twist dress." No more, decreed the directors. From now on, it is "a condition of entry that all players will wear whites."

With her husband Prince Rainier, 39, her two children, three servants (one nanny), and a grey poodle named Gamma, Princess Grace of Monaco slipped quietly back into Paris. Come what may, Grace was determined to finish a shopping spree disrupted earlier this month when she had to rush home with the prince to man the ramparts in Monaco's tax squabble with French President Charles de Gaulle. A photographer caught the royal family arriving at the railway station, but then they hurried away to the privacy of their Right Bank apartment, and Grace was seen after that only in a few haute couture salons.

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