Inside Sources

For Harper's Bazaar, Novelist-Playwright Truman (The Grass Harp) Capote recalled a touching secondhand memory of Greta Garbo: "I stopped by the apartment of a friend who previously that afternoon had entertained Garbo at tea. As I entered the room and started to sit down in an especially comfortable-looking chair piled with pillows, my friend, a very sane fellow, suddenly asked would I mind not using that particular chair. 'You see,' he said solemnly, 'she sat there: the dent in the little red pillow, that's where her hand rested--I should like to keep it a while longer.' I understood him perfectly."

Field Marshal Sir William Slim, chief of the British Imperial General Staff, arrived to give a series of lectures at U.S. military institutions. Said he: morale in British forces is "absolutely first-class"; civilian morale is good too: "We shall grouse; we shall grumble; people will say we're decadent. Then somebody will hit us and they'll find we're not."

In Rome, after a separation from her husband John ("Shipwreck") Kelly, Brenda Frazier Kelly, 30, No. 1 cafe society queen a decade ago, sounded a warning to her successors: being a glamour girl is "the worst thing that can happen to you . . . It's all so superficial. It means nothing." Besides: "Nobody is interested in an ex-glamour girl."

The Duke of Edinburgh, taking a look at British industry, put on a Royal Navy work suit and joined a pit shift in a Lancashire coal mine. After spending two hours 3,000 feet underground, he completed his tour with a shower in the miners' bathhouse and a 19-c- lunch in the company canteen.

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