The Restless Foot

During her four-week U.S. visit, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands threaded her way through the niceties of diplomatic protocol and the hazards of civil welcoming committees with unaffected good humor. (In Detroit, after the mayor had stepped on her train for the third time, she was heard to murmur: "My God, not again!") Before leaving for Canada, she topped her tour with a visit to some of the kings & queens of Hollywood, where photographers caught her getting the leading-lady treatment from Old Star Spencer Tracy and Producer Dore Schary.

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, having filmed his TV programs in advance, took off for Rome, stopped en route in County Roscommon, Ireland, to dedicate a church in the village of Croghan, birthplace of his grandmother.

After being made a member of the Society of Sidewinders in Wickenburg, Ariz., Cinemactor Tyrone Power helped initiate a new group of greenhorns. The ritual: a week-long horseback ride in the desert followed by a snack of cocktails and rattlesnake meat.

In Paris, General Dwight Eisenhower interrupted his farewell tour of the NATO countries to attend the funeral Mass of a friend, French Hero General Henri Coudraux, a deputy chief of staff to SHAPE. Ike followed the old French custom which calls for chief mourners, whether lay or clerical, to dip a silver goupillon in holy water and sprinkle it on the coffin. Later, Ike took to his bed with a throat infection and fever, which further delayed his goodbye tour.

In Boston, a nine-year-old autograph hound said, "Bear down hard, Mr. Senator, I've got lots of friends." Estes Kefauver followed orders on a pad which had 15 sheets of carbon paper in it.

Sheppard ("Abdullah") King, who risked his Texas cotton-fortune inheritance by marrying Egyptian Shimmy Dancer Samia Gamal, brought his bride home to Houston to meet Mama for the first time. All went well. Nervous Samia got a hearty hug from her mother-in-law, who said, "I think she's charming."

The Strenuous Life

In Tokyo, Prince Chichibu, younger brother of the Emperor, was named honorary chairman last July of an association to raise money for a memorial to Old Soldier Douglas MacArthur. Last week the newspaper Yomiuri reported the campaign results to date. Expenses: $2,962. Funds raised: $222.

Off Pensacola, Fla., John F. Floberg, 36, World War II reserve officer and now Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, made the regulation three sole carrier landings on the U.S.S. Cabot in a North American SNJ monoplane, and thus qualified as an aircraft carrier pilot.

Asbestos Millionaire Tommy Manville decided that his 28-room mansion in New Rochelle, N.Y., which his last eight wives called home, was too large for temporary bachelor living. He bought a full-page ad in the local paper to announce,"The House of Brides for Sale," and made plans to move into a cozier $125,000 ranch-type house on a nearby peninsula.

In Washington, former Communist Editor Louis Budenz testified that seven years of writing and lecturing on the evils of Communism has netted him $70,000.

After three months of marriage in 1951, part-time Actress Terry Moore, 23, finally got a divorce from Glenn Davis, 27, former West Point All-America and now a halfback on the Los Angeles Rams. Her grounds: "He made a wreck out of me. He asked friends if they thought I could really act and when they said yes, he called them frauds."

The Furrowed Brow

Sweden's Premier Tage Erlander summed up his two-week tour of the U.S.: "It was very interesting to see how the average American lives. Their living standard appeared to be as high as ours."

Indignant over both steel and flood problems, Tennessee's Representative Carroll Reece wrote a one-sentence letter to Harry Truman. The text: "Why don't you seize the Missouri River?"

In London, a visiting Soviet chess expert explained how Russia's world champion Mikhail Botvinnik trains for an outside tournament: "In the Soviet, chess matches are played in strict silence, and smoking is forbidden. Before Botvinnik plays a match in a Western country, he spends three weeks with a companion, working out problems, while a radio blares in the background and his companion blows smoke in his face."

After much official bickering and meditation, Belgium's young King Baudouin solved a national philatelic problem. He announced that the first stamp to be issued in his honor will show him in profile without his horn-rimmed glasses.

Minister of Education Andre Marie ordered all French schoolteachers to hold special classes on Harriet Beecher Stowe in preparation for the Sorbonne's centenary celebration in June of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

To Marlon (A Streetcar Named Desire) Brando, enjoying the boulevards of Paris, the ways of Hollywood seemed more disenchanting than ever. Said he: "Every creep part that comes along someone says, 'This is just right for Brando.' If I could crawl on all fours they'd put my face on Lassie and write a part for me."

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