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Some mysteries are perhaps better left unsolved. Celebrating his 65th birthday in Washington where he is appearing in Pirandello's Henry IV at the Kennedy Center, British Actor Rex Harrison confessed that he had nicknamed himself "Sexy Rexy" because it rhymed. "I was christened Reginald Carey Harrison so I called myself 'Rex.' What if I had been named 'Larry'?"
American Pianist Byron Janis has an uncanny knack for digging up rare manuscripts of Fréedéric Chopin. Exploring the archives at Yale University, Janis was drawn to a dusty folder thought to contain "just a bunch of old papers." They turned out to include two priceless scores, in Chopin's own hand, of the Waltz in G Flat Major, Opus 70. Five years ago Janis had discovered another, later version of the same waltz, along with other Chopin pieces, in a box marked "Old Clothes" in the archives of the Cháteau de Thoiry outside Paris.
Like many affluent American executives, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, 66, is wild about gadgets. To cut down on his smoking, he carries a Swiss cigarette case with a timer lock that allows him one American filter-tip every hour. Hunting, he sports a matched pair of handmade English shotguns. Driving, he has the choice of the Cadillac limousine that Richard Nixon gave him, a Citroën-Maserati given him by the French, and a 1972 Rolls-Royce as well as several Russian-built cars. And now he has acquired the gadget of all gadgets —a video-phone system in his Kremlin office that links Brezhnev to his top Party Secretaries and key ministers.