Social Notes

Marriage Reported: Svetlana Dzhugashvili, 26, redheaded daughter of Joseph Dzhugashvili, better known as Stalin; and Mikhail Kaganovich, son of Lazar Kaganovich, longtime Politburo member and Stalin's brother-in-law; in Moscow, July 3. British and Swiss newspapers said the nuptial feast in the Kremlin lasted a fortnight, with refreshments served on Czarist gold plate and sped with pink Crimean champagne, sweet Armenian peach brandy and vodka. Cost: $280,000.

Separated: Palmiro Togliatti, 58, Italian Communist boss, and his motherly wife, Communist Senator Rita Montagnana, after 27 years of marriage. Last year when the Togliattis left their deluxe apartment on the left bank of the Tiber, Rita went to live in Turin with their son Aldo, 26, and Palmiro moved out to a smart suburban villa in Rome. Last week they got a legal separation, which, however, does not permit them to remarry. Rumor said Togliatti might get a divorce outside Italy. The other woman: his personal secretary, buxom Communist Deputy Leonilde lotti, 31, with whom he has been keeping steady company for several years.

Reported Dead: Maurice Thorez, 51, France's Communist boss until last November, when he suffered a stroke and was flown to Russia for medical treatment. Persistent rumors from Warsaw and Stock holm say Thorez died in Moscow. The French Communists deny the reports, claim that Thorez is, in fact, getting better. Possible reasons for keeping Thorez' death secret: 1) the problem of his succession in the French Communist Party; 2) reflection on Russian surgery.

Reported Purged: Petru Groza, Premier of Communist Rumania, and Vulko Chervenkov, Premier of Communist Bulgaria. New York Times gadabout Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger heard last week that both had been relieved of all their executive functions. Groza, never more than a stooge for the Communists, has been assailed for months past as a "deviationist" by Ana Pauker's ruling faction in the party. Chervenkov, a party member since 1919 and brother-in-law of Red Hero Georgi Dimitrov, seemed to have a more secure position.

Reported Shot: Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, 54, Soviet war hero, appointed Poland's Defense Minister in 1949. Stockholm rumors said Rokossovsky had been pinked by a Polish officer who later committed suicide. The Voice of America beamed the report to Poland, waited to see if Rokossovsky would deny it by making a public appearance.

Visiting: Kansas-born Dr. John A. (for Adams) Kingsbury, 74, onetime Manhattan social worker and tireless fellow traveler, who arrived in Russia last week for his second call in eight months. (On his first he headed a gaggle of U.S. pinko "peace partisans.") As chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, ticketed as subversive by the Attorney General, Dr. Kingsbury was huzzaed at Moscow's Leningrad Station by bureaucrats of the Soviet Committee for the Defense of Peace and the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women. Purpose of his visit, explained Dr. Kingsbury: to study the Soviet public health system.

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