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King Paul and Queen Frederika of

Greece, after posing at their summer palace with Crown Prince Constantine, 13, for an engaging family photograph, set out from the Piraeus in a cruiser, slipped quietly ashore at Naples and traveled incognito to Austria. They will journey through Europe, sail for the U.S. in late October. At the" same time, two other Greek leaders landed in Italy and were feted with maximum pomp and ceremony. Premier Alexander Papagos and Foreign Minister Stephanos Stephanopoulos were met at the Rome airport by a delegation headed by Italian Premier Giuseppe Pella. That evening, going to a reception in Rome's Castel Sant' Angelo, spectacularly lighted by 1,023 flaming oil pots, Stephanopoulos and Papagos were saluted by guards in 16th-century costume. The party in the famed Borgia apartments atop the ancient pile (classically known as Hadrian's Tomb) was the high point of a four-day visit which had the practical end of uniting the Greeks and Italians in pledges of friendship.

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In Hove, England, Mrs. Clement Attlee, famed for chauffeuring her ex-Prime Minister husband during his campaign travels, was fined -L-1 ($2.80) for leaving her Humber Hawk parked without lights for nine hours and "obstructing" a local street.

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For the Metropolitan Opera's Impresario Rudolf Bing, there was no Manhattan crag out of the range of two of grand opera's most massive voices. Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior, on his way to a singing job in a Las Vegas hotel, updated an old quarrel with Bing (they'had parted company in 1950) by taking him to task for staging opera in English translations. "That is all right for the lesser companies, but the Met should present opera in its greatest form, and that is in the original languages. Besides, you can't understand the words, even if they are sung in English." Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, just finished a two-week engagement in a Chicago nightclub, made public a letter she had received from Bing, and thoughtfully appended her answer. Bing had written that opera and popular singing "do not really seem to mix very well" and suggested: "Perhaps you would prefer to give the Metropolitan a 'miss' for a year or so until you may possibly feel that you want again to change back to the more serious aspects of your art." Singer Trau-bel's indignant reply: "I will be unable to sign the contract the Metropolitan Opera Association has offered me ... Artistic dignity is not a matter of where one sings ... To assert that art can be found in the Metropolitan Opera House but not in a nightclub is a rank snobbery."

Old Groaner Bing Crosby was back for his 22nd radio season, but the blue of the night was no longer meeting the gold of the day. While lazing about his Nevada ranch this summer, he had got to thinking about his sunset theme (which he helped compose a quarter of a century ago), decided his public must be as bored with it as he is. Bing put The Blue of the Night to pasture, ordered a new instrumental piece to take its place on the Crosby show. Its tentative title: "Bing's Theme."

The late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, who held the highest legal post in the land, died without leaving a valid will. He had written wills in 1928 and 1930, but neither had witnessing signatures. At probate court in Washington, it was disclosed that Vinson, after a lifetime of Government service, left an estate of $7,163, debts of $6,000.

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In probate office at Nashua, N.H.. the estate of the late Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey, who left no will, was put at $20,000.

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An estate tax appraisal in Manhattan revealed that the late James V. Forrestal, investment banker who became the first Secretary of Defense, left a net estate of $1,201,019.

Actress Audrey (Roman Holiday) Hepburn confessed her surprise at being in the movies at all: "I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine. I've had a complex all my life about being definitely ugly."

"For outstanding services in the struggle against warmongers and for the strengthening of peace." Baritone Paul Robeson received the International Stalin Peace Prize for 1952 (complete with diploma showing a picture of Joe Stalin) in ceremonies in Manhattan. The award, good for $25,000 in cash, would have been tendered in Moscow if the State Department had let Robeson make the journey. The substitute presentation of what Communist Author Howard Fast called "the highest award which the human race can bestow upon one of its members" was described by the Daily Worker: ". . . There was a hush as the medal, with Stalin's likeness on one side, was pinned on. Then came the misty eyes as Fast embraced the guest of honor, tiptoeing to kiss him on both cheeks." Robeson, "in a voice shaky as few have heard it," said: "I have always been, I am. and I always will be, a friend of the Soviet Union."

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