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The West German Foreign Office received a complaint from the Yugoslav embassy in Bonn charging that British Novelist Evelyn Waugh had "crudely insulted" Marshal Tito in an article written for the weekly newspaper Rheinischer Merkur. The story concerned the time Tito received his first marshal's uniform hat as a gift from the Russians. Wrote Waugh: "I well remember the day when Tito wore it for the first time. It was on the island of Vis, where he lived in August 1944, under the protection of our Navy and our Air Force. The hat was not made to order, according to English standards. It did not fit him at all. But Tito waddled over the island, proud as a dog with two tails, for the hat had come like a halo from his Russian heaven."

Yale University's President A. Whitney Griswold gave a University of Georgia audience his thumbnail summary of the state of culture in the U.S. Said he: "Culture is being lost among oxidized jukeboxes and television sets and petrified bubble gum." Furthermore, he added, "We are the best informed nation in the world, with the most primitive ideas of what to do with the knowledge."

In the weekly newsletter to his constituents, Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr reported on his recent luncheon at the White House, in which he narrowly escaped the uncomfortable intimacy of a plate-to-plate session with the man he had bitterly opposed in the pre-convention battle for presidential nomination. Wrote Kerr: "Following the preliminary welcome, we proceeded to the big state dining room and we were seated according to seniority. This not only put me at the foot of the table, but, had it not been for General Persons, Ike's Congressional troubleshooter. I would have been right next to Senator Estes Kefauver. General Persons, sitting between us, said it was comforting to know that he was serving at least one useful purpose."

Looking as pleased and proud as an actress who has won an Oscar with her first production, Hollywood's Elizabeth Taylor, recently learning how to play the new role of mother in real life, posed for the first picture of her two-month-old son, named after his father, British Cinemactor Michael Wilding.

Hollywood's real-estate news of the week: Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke signed papers to buy the massive hilltop villa Falcon's Lair, onetime home of the late Rudolph Valentino.

In Hollywood, Cinemactress Merle Oberon, 42, a British subject born in Tasmania and educated in India and France, announced that she was going to become a U.S. citizen and join "Mr. Eisenhower's party."

After a succession of bothersome colds, 85-year-old Dowager Queen Mary was again confined to her bed in Marlborough House. This time it was a stomach ailment. Nothing serious, said the royal physicians, but it had hung on longer than it should. Nevertheless, from Manhattan, the Duke of Windsor and his visiting sister, the Princess Royal, were summoned to her bedside in London.

At a flood relief benefit concert in London's Albert Hall, an alert photographer recorded a moment of royal informality. In a box shared with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Dutch ambassador, Dirk U. Stikker, and wife, and Princess Marie Louise, granddaughter of Queen Victoria (who always sat without looking, assuming that someone had placed a chair for her), the camera caught Queen Elizabeth II getting out of her evening wrap without a single helping hand in sight.

The Texas congressional delegation invited former Speaker of the House, Texan Sam Rayburn, 71, to be guest of honor at a Washington luncheon marking his 40 years as a member of the House of Representatives. Rayburn's record: he has served longer than any other member now in the House or Senate, and held the office of Speaker longer--eleven years--than any man in history.

In Copenhagen, Denmark's Foreign Minister Ole Bjorn Kraft announced that his government had bought the twice-life-size bronze bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt, done by the late Sculptor Jo Davidson, and that it will stand in one of the city squares. Tentative plans: to unveil the bust, with Eleanor Roosevelt present for the ceremony, on May 5, the eighth anniversary of Denmark's liberation from the Nazis.

At their winter training camp at San Bernardino, Calif., the St. Louis Browns' venerable Negro Pitcher Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, who has already perfected such specialties as his Nuthin' Ball and the Hesitation Pitch, announced that he had still another which he was holding in reserve: his Submarine Ball. Said he: "I may use it when I get a little older. Some day my fast ball is going to slow down."

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