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Lawyers for Bebop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie filed suit in federal court in Rochester, N.Y. against a motorist who "wantonly, recklessly and negligently" ran Dizzy down while he was bicycling in nearby Geneva last August. Dizzy's injuries are responsible, said his lawyer, for the fact that he can "no longer reach above Trumpet-Maestro Louis Armstrong's high C and blacks out trying to reach high notes." Since, as a result, Gillespie "has been forced to reduce the size of his band from 14 to five persons." the musician wants damages totaling $25,000.

The U.S. embassy in Rome, which last summer invited Novelist Alberto Moravia (The Woman of Rome) to visit America only to have the State Department deny Moravia a visa, announced that a renewed invitation had been accepted by Moravia who is now awaiting Washington's blessing.

Bound for Norfolk from Rhode Island aboard her ocean-going yacht When & If, Mrs. George S. Patton Jr., widow of the wartime commander of the U.S. Third Army, was notified of the death of her daughter, Mrs. John K. Waters, after a widespread sea search by the Coast Guard, radiotelegraph stations and a commercial radio station. Mrs. Patton put in to port and rushed back to her daughter's home in Highland Falls, N.Y.

Following a month's visit with her mother in New Jersey, Sloan Simpson O'Dwyer boarded a plane for Mexico City to rejoin her husband, Ambassador William O'Dwyer. Before she left, Sloan smilingly pooh-poohed rumors that she would divorce His Excellency.

Prague Radio proudly announced that Czech Track Star Emil Zatopek, who despite his eccentric, floppy running style shattered three Olympic records, had become a candidate for membership in the Communist Party. Emil, whose Olympic feats have already won him a promotion from captain to major, and selection as representative to the December "World Peace Congress" in Vienna, decided to drop over to the track in Houstka. northern Bohemia, and celebrate the big news. Major Zatopek's latest exhibition records, according to Prague: 15 miles, run in 1 hr. 16:26.4; 25 kilometers in 1 hr. 19:21.8; 30 kilometers in 1 hr. 35:23.8.

Heading the group of U.S. officials who will attend the inauguration next week of Chile's President, General Carlos Ibafiez del Campo: Eleanor Roosevelt, who goes as special ambassador and chief of the American delegation.

Cinemactress Ava Gardner, who has been avoiding the public since her latest spat with husband Frank Sinatra (during which Crooner Sinatra reportedly called in the police to help in getting Ava out of their Palm Springs house), briefly reappeared. Dropping over to the famed handprinted-footprinted pavement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Ava delicately planted a sandaled foot in a block of wet cement, thereby establishing herself solidly for posterity as a certified movie queen.

Onetime Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's wily old financial wizard, got a foothold in Germany again. Turned down by the Hamburg Senate when he applied for permission to found a banking firm there (TIME, Aug. 4). Schacht managed to get a license to operate in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, appeared confident that sooner or later he would win his Hamburg permit.

Among the 800 guests attending the fashionable wedding of U.S. Heiress Virginia Fortune Ryan and Britain's Lord Ogilvy (see MILESTONES) was South Pacific Star Mary Martin. The Texas-born wedding guest delighted the fashion-conscious by showing up in a fur coat, a hole-in-the-crown fur headpiece, an ear-warming hood anchored by a pearl choker.

After visiting Norway, Sweden and England, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg settled down with his wife in Paris for a five-day stay and a round of official visits. Next major stops on his worldwide tour: Switzerland, Spain, North Africa, Italy, Turkey, Philippines, Korea, Japan, Alaska and "home, I hope."

After 13 years of marriage, Novelist Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat, now British information officer in South Africa, was divorced by his wife Eileen.

A pressagent's overblown dream came true when Ventriloquist's Dummy Charlie McCarthy, whose sawdust quivers at sight of the pretty guest stars on his radio program, proposed marriage to Marilyn Monroe, who said yes.

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