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Classmates at Radcliffe last year knew her as Chris Bernadotte, and from the looks of things she might have been working her way through school. She helped clean house, waited on table and served time answering dormitory telephones. She even endured the Dantean savageries of Filene's basement on a Saturday morning. Now Sweden's Princess Christina, 21, is back in the U.S. for an official visit—and quickly found herself in the midst of another subterranean jostle. "The consul people thought it would be nice for me to ride the subway like New Yorkers do," said she. So after trudging through the World's Fair, she boarded a local IRT train in the 90° heat, pursued by a rather uncourtly mob of reporters and photographers. "It was a crush," gasped Christina upon emerging. "There are more civilized ways of traveling."
"I received your invitation to attend the White House ceremony just three days after I had agreed to speak a few words at a dinner honoring the excellent high school teacher who taught me how to write. I know you will not miss me at your dinner, she might at hers." So Author James Michener begged off Lyndon Johnson's dinner for 120 young Presidential Scholars. He was spending the evening in Swarthmore, Pa., at a retirement dinner for Mrs. Hanna Kirk Mathews, 65, who, according to Michener, must be ultimately responsible for South Pacific, Hawaii, and his latest tome, The Source. Mrs. Mathews heard her sophomore English student from 1923 remark: "In his lifetime a man lives under 15 or 16 Presidents, but a good teacher comes into his life but rarely."