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ZIP! went the paper airplanes around the room. It was the 31st-birthday reception of Japan's Crown Princess Michiko, who seemed to be spending most of her time folding missiles for her son Prince Hiro, 5, to buzz the photographers with. The princess expects a second child at the end of November.
Why, cheered Beatle George Harrison a while ago, "he's the daddy of us all!" Someone finally got around to asking the proud daddy-o himself about it when he arrived in London on an English concert tour. "Daddy of them?" winced Classical Guitarist Andrés Segovia, 71. "The Beatles are very nice young men, no doubt, but their music is horrible. The electric guitar is an abomination. Who ever has heard of an electric violin? Or, for that matter, an electric singer?"
Gracious, lively and charming, said the reviewers in 1931 when the brother-and-sister act last went on in Broadway's The Band Wagon. Then the girl went off to get married, but Fred Astaire got along on his own. Now, 34 years later, at the biennial Philharmonic Ball in Rochester's Eastman mansion, Fred, 66, accepted the George Eastman House Award, then twinkled with Sister Adele Astaire Douglass, 67, through some of the old steps from Funny Face and Lady Be Good.
Who dumped the horse manure at Paddy Kennedy's pub? The Maharani of Cooch Behar did, with the help of a truck. "I couldn't resist," explained the maharani, former Model Gina Egan, because it was her old friend Paddy's birthday and he was throwing a blast for himself at his pub, The Star, in London's Belgravia Mews. "Paddy has always backed my racehorse Mack the Knife, and he's been complaining that he's always lost," the maharani went on, "so I decided to send him a birthday present from Mack."
Midst Laurels stood: Harvard University's Dr. Robert Burns Woodward, 48, named to receive the 1965 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his "contributions to the art of organic synthesis," notably his synthesis of chlorophyll in 1961; Dr. Julian Schwinger, 47, also of Harvard, Dr. Richard P. Feynman, 47, of the California Institute of Technology, and Dr. Shin-ichirō Tomonaga, 59, of the Tokyo University of Education, who will share the Nobel Prize for physics for their work, independent of one another, in defining the basic theories of quantum electrodynamics 20 years ago.