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"I get asked to do things all the time, like endorsing a china dinner service —that sort of thing," claims Britain's onetime supermodel Twiggy, 25. Though her modeling career faded, her film career fizzled, and her former boy friend, Justin de Villeneuve married someone else, Twiggy has not yet turned sideways and disappeared. Now preparing a BBC television variety series, she has just handed publishers the first draft of her memoirs. Scheduled for publication in October, the manuscript chronicles her rise from a working-class family in London and mentions at least one brush with royalty. The Thin One recalls how she was once introduced to Princess Margaret and explained that though her real name was Leslie Hornby, she was called Twiggy. "How unfortunate," Meg replied loftily.
Like most reunions, last week's gathering of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had its share of misty nostalgia. Among those on hand to discuss "The Relevance of the New Deal to the Current Situation" at New York's City University were Economists Isador Lubin, 79, and John Kenneth Galbraith, 66; Brain-Truster Benjamin Cohen, 80; ex-Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, 74; plus sons of New Dealers Franklin Roosevelt Jr., 60, and Robert F. Wagner, 65. Most jumped at the chance to swap old anecdotes of life with father. Lubin recalled walking into Roosevelt's office on one occasion just as the First Lady was leaving. Eleanor, fresh from a medical checkup, had reported to F.D.R. that her health was fine. As Roosevelt reconstructed the exchange for Lubin, he then asked his wife: "But did the doctor say anything about that big fat ass of yours?" Replied Eleanor: "No, Franklin, he never mentioned your name once."
"I'm quiet and I don't win much, so people don't notice me. But I'm there." People finally noticed Golfer Lou Graham, 37, at the U.S. Open in rain-soaked Medinah, Ill., last week. A native of Nashville who served on President Kennedy's White House honor guard while he was in the Army, Graham won more than $500,000, but only two tournaments, during twelve years as a pro. Despite his reputation as a conservative player with a distaste for chance taking, he survived an 18-hole play-off to beat out Texan John Mahaffey, 27, by two strokes and win the $40,000 top prize in Medinah. For good luck on his victory round, Graham donned a favorite faded blue golf shirt. Said Wife Patsy afterward: "We may bronze it."
One of the surest signs of summer in France is the arrival of Brigitte Bardot at her villa in St.-Tropez. The cinema sex symbol has returned as usual, this time with her boy friend of six months in tow. He is Kireo Brozeck, 34, a French-born actor of Czechoslovak descent. Although Brigitte, 40, recently abandoned her semi-retirement to film a series of hip-hugging trouser commercials for French television, friends report that she is considering marriage to Brozeck, motherhood, and the quiet life of a farm owner. "She feels the time has come to cultivate her garden," says one acquaintance. "She's tried everything else. Now she just wants to be happy."