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At Ikeja airport near Nigeria's capital city of Lagos, high-ranking British colonial officials thronged into a red-and-gold pavilion to welcome Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at the start of her three-week visit. One of the most dressed-up men present was Nigeria's own Minister of Labor and Welfare, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh. But he was topped by the head of Lagos' town council, Chief Oba Adeniji-Adele, resplendent in raiment as majestic, but also wearing a glittering gold crown that outdid the Queen's own bright pink straw hat. Said one dusky onlooker: "I like her, but she's got to get fatter before she'll be a real Queen."
In their battle to remove the name of "homoerotic" Poet Walt (Leaves of Grass) Whitman from the bridge linking Philadelphia with Camden, N.J. (TIME, Dec. 26), Roman Catholic groups in the Camden area rallied around a new nomination. Their candidate to succeed Whitman: another famed New Jersey versemaker, Doughboy-Poet-Family Man Joyce (Trees) Kilmer, a Roman Catholic convert, killed at 32 in World War I and, in the view of one champion, "representative of American traditions, American family life and American soldiery."
Hopefully a winner in her third bedridden round with cancer, courageous Super-Athlete Babe Didrickson Zaharias, 42, checked out of a Galveston, Texas hospital. The leg and hip pains that brought her there were eased after intensive X-ray treatments. A full and final recovery? Said a doctor: "You can't always tell about those things."
Mrs. Iva Kkuko Toguri d'Aquino, more infamous as Tokyo Rose, whose seductive broadcasts in World War II aimed at demoralizing Allied forces in the Pacific but actually entertained them, wound up her ten-year treason stretch (with time off for rosy behavior) at the Federal women's pen in Alderson, W. Va. Although Rose was until her conviction a U.S. citizen (she was born of Japanese parents in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, 1916), the Federals immediately moved to deport her. This raised a fine legal point: Is Rose now an undesirable resident alien, perhaps to be deported as a U.S.-born woman without a country? If she beats a booting, a job awaits her at Ronceverte, West Virginia's radio station WRON, as a late-hour disk jockey.