High Authority

Hooperator C. (for Claude) E. (for Ernest) Hooper concluded that television was a fine influence on U.S. family life. Speaking in Louisville, Ky., he said: "Henry Ford took the family apart and television is putting it together again."

"The time," said Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in Worcester, Mass., "is not ripe for women to aspire to higher office. It is utterly ridiculous to try to elect a woman President now."

The plain, American gothic face of Ohio's Senator Robert A. Toft looked different. Told by friends that his familiar rimless glasses made him appear "schoolteacherish," he showed up on the Senate floor in a new pair of dark horn rims. An informal poll of newsmen revealed three main reactions: 1) "a great improvement," 2) "just about the same," 3) "more schoolteacherish than ever."

Kiss Me, Kate's lissome Songstress Lisa (Always True to You in My Fashion) Kirk, 23, was confronted with an age-old dilemma. Does a child owe its parents a specific sum of money "advanced" for education, board and lodging? Last week in Manhattan, widowed Mrs. Elsie F. Kirk sued her daughter for $40,000, asking half her earnings as a stage star and nightclub singer (in the Plaza Hotel's flossy Persian Room). Lisa countered that she would continue to send "a substantial weekly allowance" to her estranged mother.

Low Bows

Named by Manhattan's Rabbi Israel Goldstein as the ten greatest Jews of the last 50 years: Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Chaim Wetzmann, Israel Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Leon Trotsky, Leon Blum, Hebrew Poet Chaim Nachman Bialik, British Novelist Israel Zangwill.

Rated ahead of Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Madame Du Barry and Madame Pompadour as one of "the greatest sirens throughout the ages," by New York Journal-American Society Gossipist Igor ("Cholly Knickerbocker") Cassini: Newlywed Mrs. Clark Gable, who admits to 39, the former Lady Stanley, and widow of Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

Old Sweet Song

It was a hard week for Cinderella story addicts. There was some bad news.

Winthrop (Most Eligible U.S. Bachelor of 1948) Rockefeller, 37, and the former Barbara ("Bobo") Paul Sears, 33, daughter of an immigrant coal miner, had parted after less than two years of marriage, many rumored disagreements, one heir (Winthrop Paul Rockefeller). Mrs. Rockefeller, born in the mining town of Noblestown, Pa., stayed on with her baby son at Pocantico Hills, the Rockefeller estate in North Tarrytown, N.Y. Rockefeller stayed on in Manhattan.

Actress Faye Emerson, 32, took a short leave of absence from her television show and flew to Mexico City to get a "quickie" divorce from Elliott Roosevelt, 39, who was keeping company in Manhattan with Cafe Songstress Gigi Durston.

Thrice-married Cinemactress Myrna Loy, who has been called the screen's "perfect wife," said in Hollywood that she will divorce the husband she wed in 1946, thrice-married Producer Gene Markey.

Frank Sinatra, according to Gossipist Louella Parsons, had left home again, but his wife Nancy was keeping her chin up. "Frank will come home," Mrs. Sinatra was reported as saying. "He's done it before. I've got something that is too precious and fine to give up."

But there was some good news, too.

Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara, eldest daughter of Thailand's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was a lucky girl. In Lausanne, Switzerland, the secretary of Thailand's College Student King Phumiphon Adundet announced that it was "75% certain" that the King would marry her when he returns temporarily to his country next month.

On the Go

In Bombay, 85,000 members of the Aga Khan's Khoja Sect turned out to greet their spiritual leader when he arrived by plane for his first visit to India since 1946. The beaming father-in-law of Cinemactress Rita Hay worth was somewhat over the standard 66-lb. limit on passenger baggage. He flew in with 31 pieces of luggage weighing 1,500 Ibs.

Winston Churchill was whiling away several weeks painting the cliffs near Funchal, Madeira, marking time until he goes back to take part in Britain's coming general elections (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Snowy-haired Botz (of Memphis, Tenn.) Ed Crump was indignant at the Los Angeles Herald & Express. The newspaper had reported that Vacationist Crump tried to crash the press box at Pasadena's rose parade and was tossed out by police when he couldn't produce credentials. "Biggest lie ever told," fumed Crump. "Why, I still got my tickets here to prove I was a guest [in the reviewing stand], I don't as a rule have much trouble with newspaper reporters . . ."

Visiting Louisville, Ky. with his 38-year-old bride, Vice President Alben W. Berkley, 72, said that he expects their honeymoon will last 33 more years. His explanation: "I originally planned to live to be 100, but a fortune teller in Egypt gave me five more years."

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