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The man who was Thrill-Killer Prisoner 9306-D for 33 years, six months and two days walked nervously from Illinois' Stateville penitentiary one day last week. Trim in a prison-made blue suit, paroled Nathan Leopold Jr., 53, took the arm of Lawyer Elmer Gertz, pushed his way to five microphones set up on a nearby road, and over shouts and shutter clicks read a statement to 100-odd newsmen and photographers: "I beg, I beseech you ... to grant me a gift almost as precious as freedom itself--a gift without which freedom ceases to have much value--the gift of privacy. Give me a chance--a fair chance--to start life anew." Then he answered a few questions about his $10-a-month lab technician's job in a Puerto Rican hospital, grimly commented when asked if he felt free: "I feel hemmed in." With a posse of reporters yelping at their heels, Leopold and lawyer hopped into a rented car and dashed off toward Chicago. New to high-speed driving, Leopold, a diabetic, stopped six times en route, vomited on roadside grass as cameras clicked. Later, taut-nerved Nathan Leopold flew to New York and on to Puerto Rico, at his destination said humbly: "You can't imagine how happy I am."

The plaintiff, in a Los Angeles court, called for the dissolution of Lewislor Films, Inc., producer of NBC-TV's Loretta Young Show, charged company bosses with "dishonesty, mismanagement and unfairness." The plaintiff: Adman Tom Lewis, 55; codefendant: the company president, Cinemactress Loretta Young, Lewis' wife for almost 18 years. Said Lewis: "It has no personal implications." Said Actress Young: "No comment."

As thigh-slinging Crooner Elvis Presley made his way from Hollywood to the family home near Memphis to wait out his Army summons, Pollster Eugene Gilbert, a specialist in probing teen-age minds (TIME, Aug. 13, 1956), announced--to no one's surprise--that Pelvis fans, rated against the Como-Boone-Sinatra crowd, are all shook up indeed. Researcher Gilbert's findings: in school, most Presleyans don't give a twang for getting good grades. Average grade for the Elvis lover is C; for the Booneite, B or better. Thirty percent of ardent rock 'n' rollers admitted that they never thought about the years ahead. Typical comment: "What's the hurry? When the time comes, I guess I'll know what to do."

* * * From the moment he ambled onstage with a dozen batons under his arm, Comic Danny Kaye, guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic for its Pension Fund Benefit, had Carnegie Hall patrons collapsing with guffaws. Unable to read music, Conductor Kaye directed some favorite classics surprisingly well, had audience and orchestra falling from their chairs by: 1) kissing two girl harpists and a bull fiddler; 2) parodying common conductorial techniques, i.e., "the coffee grinder" and "the meat chopper"; 3) arguing with his oboist over an A; 4) falling into the cellos during a crescendo. Said Kaye: "It's the greatest feeling of neurotic power in the world."

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On his current concert tour of Latin America, Piano Virtuoso Artur Rubinstein arrived in Cali, Colombia, irately plopped himself on the customs house floor to protest slow processing of his papers.

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From Fort Antoine, a 47-mm. cannon boomed the first of 101 saluting shots, and 2,500 Monegasques began to celebrate. Church bells pealed, teen-agers sang and snake-danced about Monaco's pink palace, as Prince Rainier III bowed from the balcony. About an hour before, Princess Grace delivered to her tax-free citizens a second child (the first, in 1957: Princess Caroline) and a male heir presumptive: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. If and when he should take the throne, the Grimaldi heir will be known as Albert II.

* * * At a congressional hearing, Missile Expert Wernher von Braun, asked about Atomic Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who four years ago was labeled a security risk and dropped as a Government consultant, replied: "The circumstances under which he was dismissed hurt the whole scientific community very badly ... I think the British would have knighted him."

Still seeking challengers for Republican Irving Ives's New York Senate seat, at stake this fall, the Democratic-allied Liberal Party tentatively tossed one well-known Homburg in the ring. The boomed candidate: TV's furrow-browed Edward Roscoe (See It Now) Murrow. Gruffed Murrow: "I have neither the intention nor the appetite to run for elective office," would not deny that more persuasion might change his mind. Added Murrow's good friend, New York Governor Averell Harriman (who has approved former Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter): "It would be an interesting thing."

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