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1956: The New York Journal-American tapped Italy's billowing Cinemactress Sophia Loren to guest-write a column. In carefully fractured English, Sophia (or a waggish ghost) ground out some profound pap. Sophia's advice to American girls: "Everything I've got I got from eating spaghetti. You try it."
1957: In Monaco's pink-walled palace, Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, 8 Ibs. 3 oz., uttered her first wail, set off a chain reaction including a radio broadcast by her nervous father, Prince Rainier III, 33, a 21-gun salute from two ancient cannon, harbor whistles, bonfires, street dancing and a torrent of free champagne. No longer would Monacans worry that Rainier would die without an heir, a catastrophe that might have eventually subjected them to France's high taxes and military draft as the prizes of a French annexation.
1958: With the help of hindsight, successful Dictator Francisco Franco probed the failure of unsuccessful Dictator Adolf Hitler: "Hitler was an affected man. He lacked naturalness. Hitler had the soul of a gambler, and furthermore, he totally lacked knowledge of the psychology of peoples. He never understood anything about the soul of the English. He had not prepared, either completely or logically, his war."
1959: During Christmas week, Pope John XXIII left the Vatican to beam his gentle pastoral smile on those who perhaps needed it most—invalid children in a Rome hospital, convicts at the grim Regina Coeli prison, where one inmate asked his help in getting an amnesty from the government. "I don't know what influence I might have in getting the government to grant an amnesty," replied the Pope. "But I have some influence in a much higher place."
1960: The ban on D.H. Lawrence's four-letter specifics of illicit love was removed fortnight ago by a jury of nine men and three women who found Lady Chatterley's Lover not guilty of obscenity. As the titillating tome went on sale for the first time, a Leicester Square book vendor peddled 1,300 copies in an hour after setting out a window placard reading LADY C.—12 SHARP! Among the many objectors to the literary sensation was Major Arthur Neve, secretary of Britain's Gamekeepers Association, who stiffly observed: "The sort of conduct that's mentioned by D.H. Lawrence—it's highly unprofessional, you know. My association couldn't stand for that."
1961: "People are funny about telephones," mused Oilman J. Paul Getty, the world's richest American, now an expatriate at Sutton Place, his million-dollar Tudor mansion outside London. "They'll come as guests and make long-distance calls all over the world. Even a call to London costs one and