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U.S. Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran waved hello at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, dashed on to more airy business. As first female president of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, Jackie, robust and fiftyish, chaired the gathering of the 53-year-old F.A.I, for its first meeting ever held in the U.S.S.R. She also presented the Federation's gold medal to Soviet Plane Designer Andrei N. Tupolev, brain behind Russia's vaunted TU-104 and TU-114 jett transports.
To New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons, ageless (74) Cinemagnate Samuel Goldwyn gave a measure of his current prosperity: "I've been so busy with Porgy and Bess that for the first time in 50 years I bought a readymade suit."
In as gracious an action as Washington has seen in years, Mamie Eisenhower staged a White House garden party for some 600 old folks, most of them residents of homes for the aged in the capital area. The elders came on canes, crutches, in wheelchairs and, in one case, a mobile bed. One blind old lady had not ventured into the outside world for the past four years. Among the guests: young-in-heart (89) Rebecca Clark, mother of retired General Mark Clark. Mamie's greeting: "Bless your sweet heart! It's nice to see you." Another oldster in attendance: onetime (McKinley to Hoover) White House Guard Charles Gleason, 92, to whom the First Lady said: "Welcome back home. Does it look natural?" Replied canny Flatfoot Gleason: "It looks as if you need more protection around here!"
After confounding his co-politicos by bellowing his oratory in the Louisiana legislature, Louisiana's Democratic Governor Earl Kemp Long, 63, brother and political legatee of assassinated Demagogue Huey Long, checked into a Galveston hospital after a quick flight from Baton Rouge. His doctor: Titus Harris, head of the department of neurology and psychiatry at the medical school of the University of Texas.
* Old Pro Beaverbrook failed to explain how the monumental Times he read could possibly have contained an odd number of pages.