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For years she had seemed unable to avoid the glare of publicity. Thus it came as a surprise when word leaked that Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke, 58, has for two years sung as a chorister in an almost all-black gospel choir in Nutley, New Jersey's First Baptist Church. Along with the other 100 members of the Angelic Choir, Doris goes to Friday-night choir practice, tours along with the gospelers, and occasionally invites them all up to her 2,500-acre estate in Somerville. "We know Doris is a millionaire," said Pastor Lawrence Roberts. "But all those who walk in the ways of the Lord are millionaires."
Conspiracies are the specialty of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. And his reputation was firmly established during his two-year prosecution of Businessman Clay Shaw on a charge of conspiring to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Now U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell has charged Garrison with indulging in some conspiring of his own: accepting bribes to protect illegal pinball machines. After allegedly receiving the latest installment of $1,000 in marked $50 bills, Garrison was arrested, fingerprinted, and released on $5,000 bond. "I've never accepted a dollar in my life," he snapped.
His life in the South was hard and the treatment he received at the University of Mississippi, where he was the first known Negro student, was something less than cordial. So it seems strange that James Meredith should want to go back. But after spending six troubled years in New York City, where he lost $20,000 as a landlord, and was sentenced to two days in jail for harassing his tenants, Meredith has abandoned the North to return to Jackson, Miss., where he will campaign to obtain more economic power for blacks. "The South," Meredith announced, "is a more livable place for blacks than any other place in the nation."
"He loves antiques and I think that's why he fell for me," rumbled British Actress Hermione Gingold, announcing that romance—and perhaps even the prospect of marriage—has entered her 73-year-old life. Her fiancé, Beaudoin Mills, whom the actress described as tall, thin, handsome "and younger than me," is an English antique dealer. "You know all those stories about old men marrying young girls," Hermione noted. "Well, I'm striking a blow for Women's Lib by reversing that." What effect would the engagement have on her? "Almost none, except that it feels nice. And I suppose you could say I'm not in the marriage market any longer."