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At 18,000 ft. above Bretigny airport outside Paris, Mme. Jacqueline Auriol, 36, spirited daughter-in-law of French President Vincent Auriol, nosed a Mystere II French jet fighter into a near-vertical dive, cracked the sound barrier at 687.5 m.p.h. to become the world's second woman (after U.S. Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran) to outrun sound. Acclaimed as tine gaillarde (a bold one) by her male colleagues, she reportedly was just warming up for an assault on the women's regulation-course record (652.552 m.p.h.) taken from her last May by Flyer Cochran.

Dr. Lee De Forest, famed "father of radio" (because of his 1906 invention of the three-element vacuum tube), and still active in his own laboratory, got a cake and a kiss from his third wife, Marie, at an 80th-birthday party in Hollywood.

At the Edinburgh Festival, a new play by Poet-Playwright T. S. Eliot opened to advance notices that it would be crammed with as many esoteric meanings as The Cocktail Party, his 1950 hit. The Confidential Clerk seemed to say that a man is happiest if he follows in his father's footsteps instead of striking out on a new way of life. Reporters closed in on the author to find out what the play really meant. Said Eliot: "The critics have found different meanings, and the critics are never wrong. As far as I am concerned, it means what it says. If I had meant something else, I would have said so." "But would you have said so clearly?" asked a newsman. "No," answered Eliot. "I would have said so just as obscurely."

Photographers greeted a famous mother. Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, when she stepped from a plane at London Airport, snapped her cuddling her sleepy son, seven-month-old Michael. Somewhere just out of camera range was Actor-Husband Michael Wilding.

Living proof that opera stars need not run to suet, Soprano Marguerite Piazza struck a pretty poolside pose outside her hotel in Las Vegas, where she is busy singing in a nightclub for better-than-opera pay.

His great head bulging beneath a grey wig, his outsize body draped in silk, Primo Camera took Hollywood Starlet Audrey Dalton by the hand and rolled his eyes for a soulful photograph. Camera, 44, the Italian giant (6 ft. 6 1/2 in., 280 Ibs.) who was promoted all the way up to the world's heavyweight championship in the 1930s, had turned his acting talents to the movies after a moneymaking postwar wrestling career, is currently performing (but not starring) in Casanova's Big Night and Prince Valiant. To make things complete, he and his Italian wife have just picked up their U.S. citizenship papers in Los Angeles.

Caught painting on France's Cote d'Azur, Jean Cocteau, poet, playwright and jack-of-all-arts, put down his brushes long enough to air some views for the Paris weekly Arts:

"Teaching youth ... it's becoming more and more impracticable. Youth today doesn't want to begin where we began; they want to begin where we've arrived.

"The Paris public is the worst public . . . Those who dress aren't those who are really elegant, and those who are really elegant have the excuse of not dressing because others dress.

"Everyone loves my tinsel, my fireworks, all this frivolity that I wear like an iron collar--not my profound, true nature."

Just in from a 23-day fact-finding dash through Europe, the American Legion's bouncy President Lewis K. Gough, an inheritance-tax appraiser for the State of California, got off to a smash start at a press conference in St. Louis: "If we had a round table here, I'd think I was sitting before a Senate committee, except you gentlemen look more intelligent."

Violinist Yehudi Menuhin took time out from a punishing European concert tour to climb Switzerland's 9,757-ft. Mt. Schilthorn. delighted his wife and companions after the six-hour ascent by standing on his head at the peak and running through his yoga exercises.

Two 18-year-old monarchs of the Middle East went sightseeing together in Bethlehem. King Hussein of Jordan, in military uniform, and his cousin, King Feisal II of Iraq, wearing a trim business suit, were photographed in a solemn mood at the birthplace of Christ.

In Paris, Madame Jolie Gabor, 53, glamorous mother of glamorous Eva, Magda and Zsa-Zsa, showed surprise that people make so much about their divorces. "We're four girls, and there have only been eight divorces. Is that so much?" Confided she to the Herald Tribune's Columnist Art Buchwald: "We are never angry with our former husbands. We have always been on wonderful terms with all of them. All of them would remarry us if we wanted them to."

The filing in Manhattan of an inventory of the will left by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes when he died in 1948 revealed a couple of interesting facts: a gross estate of $1,234,516, and Hughes's high respect for government and municipal bonds as a safe and proper investment. They accounted for $1,101,748 of his estate, while only $39,078 was in private corporation stock--a lone investment in Julius Garfinckel & Co., Washington specialty store.

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