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Poet Robert Frost, 78, whose verses sing the praises of simple living and hard work (The Axe-Helve), delivered some prosy philosophy in Berkeley, Calif.: "I never thought much of work. I'm not industrious. I have nothing to 'retire' from. My life has been one long vacation." Of some of his compatriots who have fled the U.S. through the years, in search of new artistic freedoms. Frost said: "(I never felt the call to be an expatriate. But I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."

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Archbishop Richard J. Gushing entered Boston's St. Elizabeth Hospital for an hour-long prostate gland operation. This week he will undergo a kidney operation.

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Charging cruelty, Mrs. Ruth Garsson, ,33, filed suit for separation against 63-year-old former Munitions Maker Murray Garsson, now living quietly in New York City since his release from prison over two years ago. Garsson served 19 months of an 8-to-24-month sentence. With his brother Henry and Kentucky's former Representative Andrew May, he had been convicted of conspiracy and bribery involving Government contracts.

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In Helsinki, Composer Jean Sibelius celebrated his 88th birthday at a quiet family party at home.

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In Naples. Actress Ingrid Bergman, still wearing her medieval stage robes and manacles, exchanged toasts with husband Roberto Rossellini after the opening of Arthur Honegger's new opera, Joan of Arc at the Stake, in which Ingrid starred (but did not sing). Rossellini directed the production, Ingrid's first stage job since her 1947 appearance on Broadway in Maxwell Anderson's Joan of Lorraine.

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Terry Moore, wellrounded, perpetually breathless Hollywood actress (Come Back, Little Sheba), prepared to leave this week to entertain U.N. troops in Korea. In her special wardrobe was a get-up that any pressagent might view with pride: an ermine bathing suit, ermine hat and ermine-lined mittens and boots.

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His voice quavering, wire-maned David Ben-Gurion, 67, delivered his "abdication" address in a radio broadcast to the citizens of Israel. He was convinced that, "in spite of excessive party fragmentation . . . the people of Israel are far more united at heart than many imagine." Then he concluded with a definition of faith, in his version of the words of the Prophet Habakkuk: "Righteous man lives by his faith. He will not preach to others, will not act the saint by calling on others to live justly, will not look for fault in his neighbour. But he will practice his faith in his daily life--he will live it." Next week Ben-Gurion will begin living his as a sheep-farmer in the desert settlement of Sde Boker, near Beersheba.

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Paris police picked up a pilot and a former stewardess, accusing them of stealing a reported $34,285 in gold from the Swissair plane to which they were assigned last October. The pilot owned up that he was the same Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl, 44, American, sometime soldier of fortune who was shot down while piloting a fighter plane for the Spanish Republicans in 1937 during Spain's civil war. Dahl had been sentenced to death, but his wife sent her photograph and a plea for mercy to Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who pardoned him.

During a Los Angeles Examiner Christmas benefit for needy families, Comedian Jack Benny, looking, under the circumstances, no older than his alleged 39, cuddled up to Marilyn Monroe and managed, for just a moment, to turn his eyes toward the camera.

King Gustaf and Queen Louise of Sweden rose to their feet in Stockholm to honor five of this year's winners of the Nobel Prizes: The U.S.'s Fritz Lipmann, Britain's Hans Adolf Krebs (both for medicine), Germany's Hermann Staudinger (chemistry), The Netherlands' Fritz Zernike and Britain's Sir Winston Churchill (literature), who was represented by his wife, Lady Churchill. In Oslo, Norway, the U.S.'s General George Catlett Marshall received the Nobel Peace Prize. As he rose, some Communist hecklers jeered, catcalled and sent a sheaf of propaganda leaflets flying from the balcony. Norway's 81-year-old King Haakon promptly jumped to his feet to lead a vigorous round of applause for the general that completely drowned out the Communist commotion.

The news was hardly out that Party-Thrower Elsa Maxwell was planning to exclude the Duchess of Windsor from her forthcoming "Four-Duchess Ball" before cafe society reporters began circulating a statement reportedly made by the duchess: "It would take four ordinary duchesses to make one Duchess of Windsor!" From her Waldorf suite, Elsa denied she was even thinking of giving a ball, retorted: "Anyway, it's my prerogative to drop a duchess if I want to. I'm tired of duchesses--some duchesses."

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