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Perhaps nothing is such big medicine in the fashion world as a picture of Jacqueline Onassis leaving a Manhattan restaurant in a new outfit. The mini was really in when she was photographed emerging from Lafayette one winter day in 1966 with her hemline inches above her knees. Last week it was La Cote Basque and inches above her ankles. Plus fa change . . .
England's actor laureate, Sir Laurence Olivier, 63, called a press conference in London to announce that he would be off the boards for at least a year. Said Olivier, who was operated on for cancer in 1967 and suffered thrombosis in one leg last August: "I just can't sustain a stage part. It feels like I've got 20 pounds more on one leg than the other, and during a long speech I get puffed. Anyway, I don't really enjoy acting very much any more."
As Germany's Onetime Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling can testify, the man on the floor when the bell rings is not necessarily the long-run loser. Joe Louis, 56, who knocked Schmeling out in the first round of their championship bout in 1938, has been living in a Denver veterans mental hospital while his ex-wives and the Government haggle over what money he has left. By contrast, Schmeling—fit, rich and popular—celebrated his 65th birthday last week on his 25-acre estate near Hamburg with his actress-wife Anny Ondra, and was awarded West Germany's Federal Cross of Merit "in recognition of your special services for the nation and people."