TWO FOR THE PRIZE OF ONE, headlined the Washington Post--and so it was when Dr. Donald Glaser, 34, this year's Nobel laureate in physics, married Ruth Louise ("Bonnie") Thompson, 23, a University of California math major. First thrown together in a U.C. radiation lab, where he was testing his liquid hydrogen bubble chamber and she was a part-time programmer for a computer, the Glasers winged off last week toward Stockholm and a honeymoon helped along with $43,627 in Nobel money.

After six years of house arrest in a Cairo suburb, Major General Mohammed Naguib, original "strongman" of Egypt's 1952 revolution against King Farouk, was once again at liberty. Naguib, who proved too good to be strong, was first slapped into confinement when he showed signs of developing mass popularity and thereby outgrowing his role as front man for a junta led by Egypt's current President, Gamal Abdel Nasser. Though Naguib was freed last July on the anniversary of his revolution, his new status passed unnoticed until last week, because he continues to enjoy life in the same well-accoutered villa that was his "prison."

On his 86th birthday, Sir Winston Churchill, recovering from the fracture of a minor bone in his back from a bed room fall, abruptly announced that he intended to rise phoenixlike and have a party. When Lady Churchill and his doctors vetoed the inspiration, Britain's most eminent citizen took it quite well, spent most of the day in bed accepting personal greetings from friends, children and grandchildren, and shoveling through the blizzard of congratulations that fell upon the threshold of his London town house in Hyde Park Gate. At the family luncheon table, Sir Winston presided over a mighty repast of oysters, turtle soup, roast pheasant, champagne and all the trimmings, plus an 85-lb. birthday cake doused with his favorite brandy. Churchill's birthday moved New York Times Correspondent Sulzberger to recall how he recently remarked to Sir Winston in Morocco that men might soon zoom to other planets. "Oh, no!" cried Churchill. "Why would anyone wish to leave this earth?"

Ill lay: Pro Tennistar Karol Fageros, 26, whose broken ribs were mending in a Youngstown, Ohio hospital, after an Ohio Turnpike collision between a truck and a chartered bus carrying Karol and the New York Skyscrapers pro basketball team on an exhibition tour; Miriam Amanda ("Ma") Ferguson, 85, first woman ever elected a state Governor (in Texas in 1924, after her late husband, Governor James Ferguson, was impeached for misuse of state funds), recovering in an Austin hospital after a heart attack.

After losing 14 Ibs. in a sleep-little month, Laos' jungle doctor, Thomas A. Dooley, visited Hong Kong to talk about a new Southeast Asian hospital program, soon was in a hospital himself with an initial diagnosis of "sheer exhaustion." Because Dooley was operated on for chest cancer last year, doctors were clearly worried by his weight loss and run-down condition. But from his bed, Tom Dooley, 33, offered his own wry diagnosis: "I would call it old age."

Back from Manhattan and recognition as the rightful occupant of his country's U.N. seat, Congo President Joseph Kasavubu, attired in a special uniform as Congolese army commander in chief, got even warmer recognition from his wife at Leopoldville airport, was wildly hailed as "King" by some of his excitable countrymen.

In a step that was bound to confuse the emotions of millions of bobby-socked swooners, Bronx-born (as Walden Robert Cassatto) Dreamboat Groaner Bobby (Mack the Knife) Darin, 24, married Teen-Age Starlet Sandra (The Reluctant Debutante) Dee, 18, "on the spur of the moment" at 3 a.m. in the apartment of a music publisher who lives in Elizabeth, N.J. With a borrowed wedding ring on her finger, Sandra (real name: Alexandra Zuck) observed romantically: "We just wanted to get it over with."

Twice excused from Smith Act trials because of a serious heart ailment, the former chairman of the U.S. Communist Party, William Z. Foster, 79, last week got federal court permission to head east, to the U.S.S.R. and Czechoslovakia, for therapeutic and restorative measures. Though the court specified that Foster could remain outside the U.S. for only one year, hardly anyone else was urging him to hurry home.

Soon to go on the block at London's famed auctioneering firm of Sotheby's: almost 400 items from the Italian estate of Britain's late Author-Caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm. Most prized collectors' pieces up for sale are books on whose flyleaves Sir Max had thoughtfully composed dedications from their famous authors to himself. Example: a copy of Queen Victoria's More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands, wherein, in Her Late Majesty's flourishing script, Beerbohm also caught her style: "For Mr. Beerbohm . . . the never-sufficiently-to-be-studied writer, whom Albert looks down on affectionately, I am sure--from his Sovereign Victoria R.I., Balmoral, 1899."

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