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Major James Jabara, the world's original jet ace, bagged his 15th Communist MIG over Korea to become the Air Force's second triple jet ace—one MIG behind Captain Joseph McConnell Jr. Jabara made one last search for the enemy three days later on the 100th mission of his second Korean tour (163 missions in all), then resigned himself to going home and "sitting out one of those jet desk jobs."
Putting into Portland, Ore. for repairs on his teeth, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas dropped into a dentist's chair, decided it was as good a place as any to reel off some mental floss. Samples : 1) he considers this month's successful assault of Kashmir's Nanga Parbat by German climbers a "far tougher'' feat than the Hillary-Tenzing conquest of Everest; 2) Syngman Rhee is the "George Washington" of Korea, and deserves America's sympathy and support, as does Mohammed Mossadegh, "the first great ruler in [Iran's] history to have been raised up by the people"; 3) Chiang Kai-shek (who has traveled both high and low in the Justice's esteem) is the symbol of a tired, failure-marked revolution.
In London, some 200 English friends, Ashanti tribesmen, socialites and Labor Party leaders (notably Aneurin Bevan) gathered for the wedding of Enid Margaret ('Teggy") Cripps, 32, youngest daughter of the late austerity Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, and Joseph Appiah, 32, African law student and personal representative in Britain of Gold Coast Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. When they emerged from St. John's Wood Church and paused for photographs, she in her mother's pearl silk gown, he in the crimson, yellow, black and green ceremonial robe of his tribe, they looked the picture of happy newlyweds. After honeymooning in Paris, they plan to live for a while at her London flat before settling down on the Gold Coast.
New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges, the Senate's temporary president, was deep in thought after leaving a conference with President Eisenhower, sauntered out into streaming traffic three blocks from the White House, and was bowled over by a passing car. He was hurried to a hospital, where doctors found a few bruises, no broken bones.
In his old home town of Newburyport, Mass., Novelist John P. (Point of No Return) Marquand, 59, was "resting comfortably" in a hospital after suffering a heart attack at his Kent's Island home.
Ex-Manhattan Model Sloan Simpson O'Dwyer, estranged wife of William O'Dwyer, onetime New York City mayor and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, settled down in Spain four months ago to "forget her troubles and recuperate before facing life again." Last week, able to face life once again, Sloan said she was willing to go to Mexico "at any moment" to testify in Roman Catholic Church proceedings to annul her marriage. But of her husband, laboring as a "legal adviser" to a Mexico City law firm, she could say only the best: "Bill is one of the finest men alive. He's got a heart of gold. We still are good friends." Future plans were hazy, but she would love to go back to the States and do a TV show, "sort of a travelogue, maybe called Going Places with Sloan."