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With his White House hopes, never bright, all but gone now. New Jersey's two-term Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner is making other plans for his political future. Asked what he will do when his gubernatorial term expires in 1962. Meyner, barred by law from succeeding himself, wryly looked ahead: "Inasmuch as there's been so much speculation on the subject, I want to disclose that I'm thinking of having Mrs. Meyner run for Governor, while I entertain tourists at the Governor's mansion."
The world's No. 1 mountaineer, New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, crouched shakily inside a red, draw-tight Himalaya tent with a fierce wind howling outside. But Hillary was atop no sky-piercing peak. He reposed in relative comfort on the gravel roof of Chicago's monster Merchandise Mart, which he had ascended by elevator. Cameras clicked and newsmen popped questions. The press spectacular was arranged by the World Book Encyclopedia, whose public relations director had sold his bosses on sponsoring (for about $200,000) Hillary's next Himalaya expedition in September.
From Washington the New York Herald Tribune's Earl Mazo reported a yarn that illustrates the conviction of the Kennedy family that Jack will be the next President of the U.S. On the night of Democratic Candidate Kennedy's victory over Hubert Humphrey "in the West Virginia primary, Crooner Frank Sinatra, popularizer of a Kennedy campaign song that parodies Sinatra's recording of High Hopes, telephoned Jack's sister Pat in London to relay the glad tidings. "Guess what?" cried Sinatra. "Oh, I know,'' replied Pat. "We'll be rolling eggs on the White House lawn next Easter."
When Nikita Khrushchev withdrew his invitation to Dwight Eisenhower to visit the U.S.S.R., it was assumed that Grandson David Eisenhower, 12, also invited by K., along with Ike's other three grandchildren, was just another social casualty of the unsociable summitry. Though it is all academic now, it developed last week that David would not have made the trip anyway. Reason: David talked over his dilemma with grandpa, decided that Little League baseball was more important to him than going to Russia. Playing for the Moose team of the Gettysburg Little League. David is the regular second baseman, sometimes pitches.
Why is Sugar Ray Robinson at 40 still the world's most feared middleweight boxer? Hoping to find out, London Daily Express Sportswriter Desmond Hackett visited Robinson at his Harlem bistro, popped the question. In reply, Boxer Robinson, who hopes to win back his title this week in Boston, produced a one-gallon can, lectured: "This may sound gruesome, but it is scientifically ethical. This container holds beef blood, which I have delivered each week from the slaughterhouse. I drink three cups a day whenever I am preparing for a fight, and I obtain the maximum vitamins this way. This way I can fight, if I so wish, for another five years."
* A mixture that, served cold, is known as a Bullshot.