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In Washington's stately Metropolitan Club, Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther found former Democratic Secretary of State Dean Acheson in a jovial frame of mind. "Why don't you get over to the State Department and do something about all the trouble?" asked Acheson. Half-flattered, Gruenther answered: "Dulles isn't as bad as all that, do you think?" "Oh, I didn't mean you should take over from Foster," shot back Acheson, "but aren't you in charge of disaster areas?"

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Thinner than usual but dressed to the usual hilt (a ring on every finger, gold pins in the lapels of his blue-grey suit, a jeweled pin in his red-speckled tie), octogenarian Negro Cultist Father Divine made one of his rare appearances to supervise a vittles-laden Feast of the Lamb, celebrating the twelfth anniversary of his marriage to his blonde "Virgin Bride," Edna Rose Ritchings, 33. While red-jacketed "Rosebuds" sang "All the Angels Love You, You Are So Beautiful, Lord," fading Father Divine jangled a silver bell to start a typical meal at his Philadelphia headquarters for some 125 followers: seven meats, two kinds of fish, ten vegetables, salad, desserts, coffee, milk and fruit juices. On the subject of halting H-bomb tests, he made his position clear: "I haven't had anything much to say about that because I believe that everything should be governed by the higher understanding as given or handed down from one state of consciousness to another."

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His shaggy crew cut somehow suggesting his long pre-Army locks, Private Elvis Presley struck a nonregulation pose with a favorite off-duty companion, nubile Starlet Anita Wood. For the record, Elvis had the camp P.I.O. issue a denial that he and Anita would marry, then, in a grand finale to his eight weeks of basic training, loped off to the Fort Hood, Texas bivouac area for a hard week of marching and infantry maneuvers--and nights in a pup tent instead of evening passes.

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While sounding out a bill to establish an official version of the larynx-bursting national anthem, a House Judiciary subcommittee listened to an expert on the subject: "Star-Spangled Soprano" Lucy Monroe, who has sung the anthem some 5,000 times (by her count) at World Series games, conventions and other public gatherings. Her recommendation: lower a few of the top notes, maybe, but "I feel strongly the basic melody should not be altered."

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Less than three months after their May-December marriage North Dakota's ancient (79), ailing Republican Congressman Usher L. Burdick tired of wife No. 3, his pretty, thirtyish former secretary Jean Rodgers. In an annulment suit filed in Fargo, N.D. by Burdick's lawyer son, the Congressman huffed that Jean "had no intention of consummating the marriage." The bride replied by asking a Washington court for $100 a week separate maintenance.

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In finger-wagging form, Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, defended himself from the outcry that arose when he invited (as a guest at next July's Lambeth Conference of the world's Anglican bishops) bearded Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, exiled ethnarch of Cyprus. To have omitted Makarios, argued Dr. Fisher, "would inevitably have been interpreted not as an ecclesiastical but as a political action." Makarios said he would try to make it to England, but planned first to visit President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic.

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At his pink stucco home just north of Manhattan, famed Protestant Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick, longtime (1930-46) pastor of Manhattan's Rockefeller-endowed interdenominational Riverside Church, turned 80 and offered a wise, gentle explanation of why many sermons are boring. "The business of an essay is elucidation," said he. "The business of a sermon is transformation. Some sermons are deadly dull because they are little essays on pious subjects."

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An old pro at finding his way around outer space, German-born Missileman Willy Ley got out of orbit on the New Jersey seaside. Invited to address a dental society meeting in Atlantic City, Scientist Ley arrived four hours late, explained that he had circled for an hour in Asbury Park (65 miles away) before being set on course.

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Home from a peek at the Brussels Fair, Producer Jean Dalrymple, Coordinator of the U.S. Performing Arts Program for the U.S. exhibit and Director of Manhattan's City Center, assured TV Torquemada Mike Wallace that the world is very much with the U.S.: "Oh, it's not true, all this talk of anti-Americanism. I've never found it in Europe except among a certain set of intellectuals--the ones the newspapermen are always with. They're all liberal and leftist. There were 750,000 people at the fair on May Day--and all 750,000 were trying to get into the American pavilion."

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