Just Deserts

After reading that King Farouk was an avid butterfly collector, Dr. Lloyd E. Alexander, head of the biology department at Kentucky State College for Negroes in Frankfort, wrote a letter to Cairo. Could the King spare some of his royal bugs and butterflies for the college collection? Last week Professor Alexander an nounced that the King had been more than happy to accommodate his fellow naturalists: 27 boxes full of 909 specimens had arrived at the Egyptian Embassy in Washington.

In Uvalde, Texas, former Vice President John Nance Garner, 83, invited the city commissioners to a meeting. Said he: "I'm not a manana man, and I want to do something now." Then he deeded to the city his two-story home with six square blocks of land, to be used "as a library or a museum or any way the city wants." The gift was in memory of his wife Ettie, who died in 1948.

In Washington, Contralto Marian Anderson announced that she would do a repeat performance of her famous 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert in honor of the late Harold L Ickes, who offered her the use of the Memorial steps after the D.A.R barred her from singing in Constitution Hall.

At Clarence House, London, Queen Elizabeth II personally conferred the title of Honorary Knight of the British Empire on Manhattan Businessman William V. Griffin, president of the English-Speaking Union, director of TIME Inc.

In Washington, the President signed a special bill granting permanent U.S. residence to Vienna-born Rudolf Bing, $35,000-a-year manager of the Metropolitan Opera, and his Moscow-born wife Nina, naturalized British citizens who have been living in the U.S. on temporary visas since 1949.

After a successful tour of Italy Frank Lloyd Wright arrived in Paris with his autobiographical exhibit called "Sixty years of living Architecture." The 82-year-old architect was obviously pleased with one of his recent awards, the Gold Medal of the City of Florence. Said he: "Dante wanted it and never got it. Then they go ahead and give it to an American from the tall grass of the western prairies."

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