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Republican Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of the Democrats' Standard Bearer Adlai Stevenson, hit her low boiling point in Chicago upon learning that burglars had ransacked her country house in Libertyville. Among the stolen items: a big polar-bear skin, stationery, a 300-lb. safe (empty). A couple of days later the phantoms struck again, but took nothing. Next night somebody tried to pry open the trunk of Ellen's car, parked in the estate's driveway. Now infuriated to the vaporization point, Mrs. Stevenson fired off to local newspapers a press release that conjured up a vision of a pioneer woman patroling her homestead veranda with a shootin' iron. Her unsentimental sentiments: "Effective immediately, any person found trespassing on the premises after dark will be given one warning to halt ... If this is not heeded, he will be shot without further notice."
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In England's castle-flecked County Durham, U.S. Ambassador to Britain Winthrop W. Aldrich, cheered on by an elite audience of British and American brass, officially opened newly restored Washington Old Hall, 800-year-old home of the ancestors of George Washington. He was suddenly confronted by a prim, grey-haired gatecrasher. The uninvited guest: Gary Lady Schuster, 88, widow of a titled physics professor. Her ticket of admission: a lineage chart showing her direct descent from John Washington, the first President's great-grandfather, who sailed to America in 1657. Offering a glad hand, Ambassador Aldrich glowed: "A Washington? Welcome home!"
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Forging his way across the wilds of Washington, D.C., intrepid Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard Evelyn Byrd, 66, who always reached his goal in his dashes to the North and South Poles, showed up at the local Columbia Broadcasting System offices and proclaimed his readiness to record an interview about "Operation Deepfreeze," his new Navy expedition to Antarctica, due to get under way next month. CBS welcomed him warmly, invited the admiral to cool his heels while it explored its program schedules. Half an hour later, it developed that the famed explorer had missed his bearings. Near by, the Mutual Broadcasting Co. was preparing to send out a search party for him. As he altered course, Admiral Byrd confessed: "I'm embarrassed."
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Two of show business' most durable headliners, Musicomedienne Mary Martin and Britain's Playwright-Actor-Composer Noel Coward, braved the midday sun at Coward's home on the West Indian island of Jamaica to rehearse for a television Spectacular. On a Ford Star Jubilee program (CBS-TV, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T., Oct. 22), Mary will nostalgically warble tunes from her past hit musicals, be spelled by Coward, in his TV debut, husking some of his own melodic wit.
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Leo Durocher, erstwhile brass-lunged manager of the New York Giants (TIME, Oct. 3), after only a few carefree days of unemployment, strolled into the National Broadcasting Co.'s Manhattan suites, casually signed a one-year contract with NBC at a reported salary of $52,000. The Lip's sprawling new duties, merited by what the network called his "great executive ability": talent (undefined) scouting, sports commentaries, assorted guest appearances, gadding about as NBC's super-articulate good-will ambassador.
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Two of the U.S. Senate's spryest Democrats got set to observe high-seniority birthdays without fuss this week. Arizona's bland Carl Hayden, about to turn 78, in Congress ever since Arizona achieved statehood in 1912 (a record for present members of Congress), was bustling about his state's 14 counties, first-naming his devoutly loyal constituents and shaking their horny hands. His colleague, Rhode Island's doughty Theodore F. Green, on the eve of his 88th birthday (senior to all other present members of Congress), planned to celebrate in Bangkok, Thailand on a globe-girdling jaunt.
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After winging in to Fredericton, New Brunswick, Britain's Ontario-born Publisher Lord Beaverbrook, 76, discoursed balefully about ad-jammed U.S. newspapers: "Some U.S. publishers are sitting on a keg of dynamite. If advertising falls off, [they] will be in the red."
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Society notice in the Washington Post and Times-Herald: "Senator and Mrs. Alben Berkley of Washington and Paducah, Ky. announce the engagement of Mrs. Barkley's daughter, Jane Everett Hadley, to Pfc. Thomas Hulen Truitt, U.S.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. Max O'Rell Truitt of Washington. Mrs. Truitt is Senator Barkley's daughter . . ." Genealogical translation: the Senator's grandson will soon resprout on the family tree as the Senator's stepson-in-law.
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When Pakistani officials passed the word that their new Ambassador to the U.S., former Premier Mohammed Ali, 46, would bring only his recent bride, Begum No. 2, Aliya Saadi, 30, to Washington (TIME, Sept. 5), the capital's hostesses and the striped-pants set puffed relieved sighs. If Ali, diplomatically immune to federal antipolygamy statutes, had chosen also to bring along Begum No. 1, Hamida, 40, Washington's social functioneers would scarcely have known whom to begum. Horrendous was the prospect of issuing invitations to the Pakistani Ambassador and the Mesdames Mohammed Ali. Last week, however, with Ali and No. 2 (his ex-secretary) already ensconced in the capital, Washington's protocolists had reason to hold their breaths again. Trotting down a liner's gangplank onto a Manhattan pier came none other than Hamida. With her were Ali's sons, Hammad, 17, and Hamde, 15. Hastening to head off a protocalamity, the Pakistani embassy announced that Hamida would sit tight in New York, leave the Washington whirl wide open to Aliya. But young Hammad, stalked by newsmen as he struggled to disembark with his tennis rackets, cricket bats and 47 pieces of family luggage, quickly unsettled the embassy's assurances. Murmured he testily: "I don't know where we are going."
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