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On a trip to Europe to help forget his domestic troubles, Manhattan's bantam Showman Billy Rose, 52, confided to a London reporter that he would like to adopt two homeless European children. He explained: "When I married Miss Fanny Brice, she was one of America's great comediennes and very busy. When I married Miss Eleanor Holm, I was very busy." Why did he want children now? Was he lonely? Not exactly, said Rose. "At my age, most people are lucky if they have enough friends to go round one card table. Me, I've got enough to go round two."

On a visit to Manhattan, Max Blouet, manager of Paris' George V Hotel, brought "a gift nobody could buy" for former Guest Dwight Eisenhower. The present: a bottle of 1800 cognac from the private cellar of Napoleon I.

Evangelist Billy Graham returned from Korea with the news that he had discovered a new breed of G.I. Said he: "I never once saw a pin-up picture. But I saw hundreds of Bibles."

Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel arrived in Manila knowing full well that mangoes give her hives, but nevertheless indulged in the tempting forbidden fruit. Result: a severe rash which closed both eyes for two days and forced the postponement of a scheduled concert at Bacolod City.

In Paris, Actor Jean-Louis Barrault,

home after a successful Broadway run, announced that the scheduled appearance of his troupe in the Cairo Opera House (for which all available seats had been sold) had been canceled by the Egyptian government because of Arab hostility to France over the Tunisia and Morocco squabbles. Said Barrault: "Decidedly I will never see the pyramids, but I have so many happy memories of New York that I am somewhat consoled."

After six years of haggling, the four major parties in the Danish Parliament agreed on the text of a constitutional amendment to allow the ascension of a woman to the throne. If passed by both Parliament and popular referendum, which is likely, 12-year-old Princess Margrethe will be heiress presumptive (in the place of her uncle Prince Knud, 52-year-old brother of King Frederik), with the possibility of becoming the first Danish queen since Margrethe I (1353-1412), a precocious sovereign who made bright Danish history. Margrethe I became the 10-year-old child bride of King Haakon VI of Norway, assumed the crown of Norway when he died, and, by invitation from the unhappy Swedes, took their crown and merged the three countries into a single Scandinavian kingdom.

Egypt's beautiful Princesses Faiza, Fawzia and Faika, joined by their sister Fathia, who is now living in the U.S., filed suit in Cairo to recover some $5,000,000 worth of jewels, property and palace treasures as their share of the impounded estate of unbeautiful exiled brother Farouk. The lawyers acting for them will challenge the will of their father, the late King Fuad, which left all movable treasures in the royal palaces to Farouk; and base their claim on Islamic law, which gives each female one-eighth of the fam ily estate. The government's case: the estate is now public property, not subject to inheritance rules.

In his weekly newspaper column, Adman-Author Bruce Barton added another item to the long list of Calvin Coolidge stories. During a visit to the ex-President in Northampton, Mass., Barton recalled, he saw Mr. Coolidge use a telephone for the first time. To check his memory, Bar- ton asked if there had been a telephone in the White House office. Answered Coolidge: "There was one in a booth in the hall I could have used, but I never did. The President shouldn't talk on the phone. You can't be sure it's private, and telephoning isn't in keeping with the dignity of the office.

" Biologists, interested in the tiny marine organisms called ascidians, heard good news from Tokyo: this summer Emperor Hirohito will publish his second book on marine life, Ascidians of Sagami Bay, the result of four years' research and 20 years of specimen collecting in which he discov ered 21 new species. His first book. Opisthobranchia of Sagami, published four years ago, was a bestseller among marine biologists.

In Joliet, Ill.. prison, where he was sen tenced to life in 1924 for his part in the wanton slaying of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, 48-year-old Nathan Leopold felt that he had paid his debt to society and asked for parole. Said he: "I have changed completely. My personality, even my physical being has changed. No cell that was in my body at the time of the crime is there today. I have learned my lesson.&" The parole board is expected to announce its decision sometime this month.

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