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When the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, Hewlett Johnson, 89, finally retired last May, Anglican churchmen breathed a long sigh of relief. But "the Red Dean" shows no sign of letup in his Communist Partygoing. Now he is off to Havana to help celebrate the fifth anniversary of Fidel Castro's regime. "He was absolutely determined to go," said his wife. "I must say he has been very well lately, but it is a long journey for a man of his age."
It came as quite a surprise to devoted Late Show fans when that old song-and-dance man George Murphy, 61, announced he was running for nomination as U.S. Senator. But not to Cali fornia Republicans. For all his amiable hoofing and woofing, Murphy has been active and effective in Republican politics for 25 years, and party polls of the voters are encouraging.
Fie on nudity, fie, says Dana Andrews, 52, new president of the Screen Actors Guild. All this film nakedness is just a producer's gimmick to hypo the box office "by having performers do something they can't do on TV." Furthermore, he harrumphed, those high-priced nudenik stars (he means Carroll Baker) are putting all kinds of pressure on newcomers to follow suitless.
"Came to N.H. when I was three, learned to ski," wrote the 1960 Winter Olympics top-ranking U.S. woman skier on one of those biographical questionnaires. And she still thinks that a tender age is the right time to learn. So at Gilford, N.H., where she now runs a ski school, it was Penny Pitou and her son, too, out in the snow for his first lesson. And with proud Mom, 25, grinning from muffed ear to muffed ear, Christian, 2, struck a pose that proved he was to the manner born.
For 33 years, Don Juan de Borbon, Pretender to the Spanish throne, has been living in exile. Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco stonily forbade him to return to Madrid—until last week.
What finally melted Franco's heart was little eight-day-old Elena Maria Isabel Dominica de Silos, daughter of Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos, and Greek Princess Sophie, and, most important, Don Juan's first grandchild. With that in mind, Franco allowed the would-be king to return for 36 hours for the christening, then dropped in on the affair and had a rare 20-minute chat with the exile. What did they talk about? Well, Franco has five grandchildren himself.