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The British visitor to the White House was "shaken" to learn that her compatriots had burned the place down during the War of 1812. "I'd heard of 1812, but I thought it was an overture by Tchaikovsky," said Mrs. Edward Armitage, wife of Britain's Controller General of the Patent Office. Turning to Pat Nixon, she added, "I'm sorry they did it. It was nothing between you and me." Soothed Pat: "I know you wouldn't do it."
Bill Woestendiek, the newsman fired by Washington's WETA-TV because his wife was hired to flack for Martha Mitchell, has a new job as editor-publisher of the Colorado Springs Sun. Wife Kay will join him as women's editor, leaving Martha in the lurch. That will hardly bother the Woes-tendieks' new boss, Vegas-based Publisher Hank Greenspun. After Mrs. Mitchell's famous call asking the Arkansas Gazette to "crucify" Senator Fulbright for his Carswell vote, Greenspun wrote an editorial suggesting that she made the call after "toasting the ill health of every Communist-liberal Senator who voted against Carswell."
On the day that Leonard Bernstein conducted Beethoven's Fidelio in Vienna, a son was born to U.S. Soprano Olive Moorefield of Vienna's Volksoper and her husband, Dr. Kurt Mach. "Love and congratulations," Bernstein wired, "for Oliver Kurt Fidelio." The parents were delighted and added Fidelio to the boy's name. "Think of the poor baby's fate," mused an Austrian TV commentator, "if Lenny had conducted Die Meistersinger von Nੜrnberg that evening."