In Rome a swell-stacked bundle of social realism named Gina Lollobrigida, 33, was giving Soviet Artist Ilya Glazunov, 32, some brand-new perspectives. "An extraordinary beauty.'' sighed Glazunov, the man who created a Moscow sensation a few years back by exhibiting a nude study of his wife. He first sketched Gina during the 1961 Moscow Film Festival, and finally, more than a year later, she wangled permission for him to come to Italy and limn a life-sized portrait. But, alas, no nudity. "Youth and spring.'' said the portraitist, "this is what I'll have to show through her pink formal dress."
As Congress moved toward bestowing honorary U.S. citizenship on Sir Winston Churchill, someone decided that it was time to repatriate Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Though pardoned under a post-Civil War proclamation by President Andrew Johnson, Lee was, in effect, a second-class citizen, excluded by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution (passed in 1868) from holding any public office, civil or military. Now Freshman Representative James H. Quillen, a Tennessee Republican, has introduced a House bill posthumously restoring full rights to the Southern hero in recognition of his "courage and integrity.''
Whatever happens to Joan Crawford, 45. there seemed to be no room in her future for Pepsi on the Rocks. In Philadelphia with Adopted Daughter Cindy to accept an award from the Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women, the veteran screen star, widow of Pepsi Cola Chairman Alfred M. Steele and herself a board member, pooh-poohed those rumors that she might play First Lady to New York's dashing, divorced Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Highly unlikely, said Joan; she has only met Rocky once. Furthermore, "I don't need this publicity, and I'm sure he doesn't. How can you be engaged to a man who's never asked you for a date?"
The enameled gentry of Palm Beach, buffed to a high gloss for opening nights at the swank Royal Poinciana Playhouse, struck Musical Conductor Fred Waring, 62, as nothing more than a bunch of well-heeled Beachniks. "The biggest, overdressed, overstuffed snobs I've ever seen," said Waring, closing a one-week Playhouse stand con brio. "They leave early, and are past masters in the art of rudeness."
''Little Ingo," they call him, while Proud Father and former Heavyweight Champ Ingemar Johansson, 30, says of his three-week-old son: "The finest boy I ever saw. Look at his fists; he sure got them from me." Will the tyke go into the ring? "I wouldn't try to stop him." declared Ingemar in Stockholm. Of course, he would have to be christened first, on Easter Sunday, but Jens Patrik Johansson already looked like a comer.