The Voice of Experience

In Rome, Italian Film Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini, 43, was asked by reporters whether Cinemactress Ingrid (Joan of Arc) Bergman, 34, the woman he plans to marry, is expecting a baby. Replied Rossellini: "How can I answer such a question when it would involve many other people?" Meanwhile Miss Bergman filed suit by proxy in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, for a quickie divorce. In Hollywood, her husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, made leisurely plans to file his own suit in the California courts.

Pianist Harry S. Truman is "much too modest" about his skill as a musician, Conductor-Emeritus Serge Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony Orchestra said after visiting the White House. "We all know that he plays much better than he talks about it."

"The three W's and three D's of living," said the University of Chicago's famed Physiologist Anton J. ("Ajax") Carlson on the eve of his 75th birthday, "are work, work, work from diaper days to death. The goal of the current philosophy of the welfare state--security from cradle to grave whether you work or not--is both unscientific and unobtainable."

In the U.S.S.R., Moscow University Professor Zinaida Vishinsky, daughter of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, wrote a book. No potboiler, it was titled: Crimes in the Field of Labor Relations.

In Washington, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, ailing since last October, said he would resign from the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy as a start on taking things easier. No, he was not thinking of a Florida vacation: "I would just be on the phone every morning at 7:30 to find out what's going on."

Maestro Arturo Toscanini, pushing 83, was getting ready for a bit of traveling. Twenty days after his birthday next month, he plans to take the NBC Symphony on a six-week tour, conduct 21 concerts from New York to California.

The Cost of Living

Billy Rose and wife Eleanor Holm got home from a Broadway opening to find that their Manhattan town house had been robbed of more than $25,000 worth of jewelry by three holdup men. According to Rose, the robbers missed $250,000 worth of trinkets that Eleanor had worn to the play. Cracked Billy: "I'm glad Baby had her war paint on tonight." The Ago Khan got some $340,000 worth of jewelry back. Stolen from him last August it was returned mysteriously in Marseille in a package dropped in front of a police station. Seven men had already been arrested.

Justice costs the taxpayers a pretty penny, Attorney General J. Howard Mc-Grath said in Washington. He listed the costs of recent "big headline" trials: the Axis Sally trial came to $55,000; the Tokyo Rose case, $75,000; the trial of eleven Communists in Manhattan, $128,000; the Judith Coplon case, $75,000; the Alger Hiss case, $58,000.

Straight-shooting Movie Cowboy Bill ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd was beginning to look like the biggest moneymaking star in television. In Hollywood, Boyd's managers boasted that 54 Hopalong pictures were grossing $1,000,000 a year on TV. Boyd's take: $150,000 a year--not counting what he makes from movies, radio, personal appearances and various Hopalong cowboy toys and clothes.

The Strenuous Life

The romantic life of Tennis Star Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moron, 26, had the: exciting touch & go of a soap opera. Her engagement in India to Calcutta businessman Anthony Davenport was reported off, then on again, then in doubt. But her indecision did not affect her tennis: she won the all-India hardcourt women's title, 6-0, 6-3, 6-1.

Hard-riding Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, seriously injured last October when his horse fell and rolled on him, was in the saddle again. Mounting a Palomino, he took his first gallop since the accident, through the rugged desert country around Tucson, Ariz.

Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, already twice engaged and disengaged at 17, was a busy young woman. She was working by day in MGM's Father of the Bride; evenings she was dating Conrad Hilton Jr., son of the hotelman. With all her rushing around in her shiny Cadillac convertible, she still found time one evening to put on a white cap & gown, get herself graduated from a Los Angeles high school.

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