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On his "final" farewell tour of the U.S., Spain's youthful (64) Gypsy Vicente Escudero, grandest master of the flamenco, made an unlikely bivouac in Manhattan's staid Hotel Plaza, paused between stomping and fingernail-castanetting to reminisce about his roving life and good times. One of diminutive (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Dancer Escudero's closest barroom buddies was the late, bibulous portrayer of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo. Was Utrillo ever sober? Snorted Escudero: "Ah, poor Maurice! When not in his cups he would fall down, so he sought to avoid sobriety at all costs!" Is Escudero's pal, Painter Salvador Dali (on hand at the Plaza opening with his antenna mustache attuned to the wild Spanish rhythms), a fraudulent art theorist? With a big wink Escudero spoke seriously: "Since nobody knows what is true, Salvador's theory that the rhinoceros horn begins all and the cauliflower ends all (TIME, Dec. 26) may be the profoundest truth of the cosmos."

Pennsylvania State University President Milton Eisenhower played host to Bolivia's ebullient Ambassador to the U.S. Victor Andrade, wound up with the envoy awarding him Bolivia's highest civilian decoration in appreciation of Eisenhower's aid to Bolivia in 1953 when he was an emissary to Latin America.

In Manhattan, with Ringling Bros, circus going on without him just across the street, famed Clown Emmett Kelly, 57, involuntarily played hooky, spent his time entertaining only one kiddy, his own Stasia, a nve-month-old big-top tot. It was the first opening Kelly had missed in his 14 years with the circus. Reason: the American Guild of Variety Artists, wrangling with Ringling Bros, over a welfare fund for circus performers, ordered Guildman Kelly to stay away.

On his way to wild and woolly Western Australia, Australia's press-pothered Prime Minister Robert Menzies, 61, was asked by a newsman about rumors that he will soon resign. Snapped Politician Menzies: "I shall be certifiable [i.e., a candidate for a strait jacket] when I allow a few newspaper reporters to decide my future for me."

Outside the White House on a sunny day, Mamie Eisenhower, wearing a four-leaf-clover pillbox hat that soon became notorious because Ike didn't quite like it ("She's got one I like better"), displayed her newest and fourth grandchild, three-month-old Mary Jean Eisenhower.

At Princeton University, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, undergraduate debating group, announced that ex-State Department Employee Alger Hiss will speak to the society late this month on "The Meaning of Geneva." It will be Hiss's first public address since he got out of a federal pen in 1954, after serving three years and eight months of a five-year sentence for perjury about his role as a Red agent in the State Department.

Spain's steel-nerved Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin, in Panama to subdue some bulls, underwent a more unnerving ordeal--becoming a father for the first time. From the time that his wife, Italian Cinemactress Lucia Bose, felt her first labor pains until his son Luis Miguel Jr. was born 29 hours later, Matador Dominguin kept a weary vigil in the hospital. For 13 hours in the delivery room, he stood by in a pale green surgical gown, at last saw son Luis delivered by Caesarean section. Said big Luis: "If I were ever in a bullfight as frightening as that, I'd never fight again!"

In the New Jersey town of Franklin, sometime Actress Magda (This Thing Called Love) Gabor, fortyish, eldest of the three best-known U.S. glamour imports from Hungary, took a groom, Queens Contractor Arthur ("Tony") Gallucci, 45. Three years ago Mama Jolie Gabor, ageless, had expressed concern about marrying off twice-wed Eva and thrice-wed Magda: "It is difficult to find husbands for them. They are not little Cinderellas. Always they have had the best minks and best diamonds." Week's end brought another groom to the Gabor hearthside. In Manhattan Eva (younger than her mother) married handsome Beverly Hills Surgeon John Williams, 35, in a quickie ceremony at her Fifth Avenue apartment. That left only one Gabor daughter without spouse: thrice-wed Zsa Zsa, who claims that she will soon marry Los Angeles Contractor Hal Hayes. Murmured Jolie sadly: "I am again a little girl alone."

Uncharacteristically reticent, Artist Diego Rivera, 69, returned home to Mexico City after six months in Moscow, where he got radioactive cobalt treatment for skin cancer. In a rakish astrakhan hat and heavy overcoat, Communist Rivera politely gave terse answers to newsmen's questions. Was he completely cured? "Completely. I am a different man. The cobalt saved me." What's going on inside Russia? "The doctors are curing cancer." Will there be a major war soon? Muttered Rivera cryptically: "That is what many want." And then he was gone.

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