With the Senate having already passed the Administration-backed bill to restore Dwight D. Eisenhower's five-star-general rank, the House added its approval in a virtually unanimous voice vote. The only naysayer: Arkansas' diehard Dale Alford, who explained that he could not stand aside "as all the colloquy was being piled higher without being reminded, and without reminding my colleagues, especially those from the South, that we are dealing here with the man who violated the Constitution by sending illegally, and in an unwarranted spirit of indiscretion, armed, bayoneted troops into Little Rock.''

Up to his ego in a film biography of Sigmund Freud, Director John (The Misfits) Huston modestly admitted that the work "has given me a new insight into the minds of some of the stars I have directed." Pressed for an example. Huston promptly picked on thrice-married Marilyn Monroe. "I think her big handicap is that she is unable to live up to her sex symbol status in real life. In fact, I don't think she really cares very much about sex at all."

For declining to answer a 1960 census questionnaire that he considered an "unnecessary invasion of my privacy," New York Investment Adviser William F. Rickenbacker, 33, son of Eastern Air Lines Board Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker, was indicted by a federal grand jury, faced the possibility of a $100 fine and 60 days of privacy.

Banned as "a disorderly person" from participating in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day parade, Dublin Author Brendan Behan as always had the last and loud est word. Said he, mindful of the fact that the parade authorities included a local judge: "I have a new theory on what happened to the snakes when St. Patrick drove them out of Ireland. They all came to New York and became judges." If asked in a pinch to name the world's most oppressive press photographers, many an actress would settle on the horde that prowls Rome. At Fiumicino Airport last week, after a visit with her three Rossellini offspring, Ingrid Bergman suddenly wheeled on her preying pursuers, snapped, "I am not a rare animal," later tearfully told a reporter, "Help me go away and find a quiet place, because otherwise I'll lose my mind." Laying over briefly at the same terminal, Katharine Hepburn was equally distraught. Wearing a safari garb that turned out to be appropriate for the jungle war that en sued, she streaked through the airport, hid out in a washroom, was finally foiled only after ducking into a plane that turned out to be the wrong one. Ground ed and surrounded, Kate tried to nutter one shutter with a judo hold, lost her footing, ended up khaki slacks over tea kettle in a perfect pants-point landing.

In the U.S. for her first visit, British Playwright Shelagh Delaney, 22, discussed the reaction back home to her earthy Broadway success, A Taste of Honey. "Half the town says it's disgust ing that I should degrade it," observed the lanky ("6 ft. in my stockings") Lan cashire lass. "The other half has the sense to see I am not particularly degrading anybody; I'm just writing a play." Be gun when she was 18, Taste was followed by the less notable The Lion in Love, and there is a third work in her head. "I still feel like a babe in arms as a playwright," said Shelagh, although she was quick to point out "People underestimate 1 8-year-old girls." After a half-hour closeting with the President, U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, 76, one of nine women among his 260 major appointees, was asked if she considered her sex underrepresented on the New Frontier. "Some people feel that way," said she, without indicating her own feelings except to note that she had left Kennedy a memento of their visit: a three-page list of women worthy of a tap from the top.

Back to Hollywood Presbyterian Hos pital -- where Clark Gable died last November -- headed his fifth wife, a sad yet somehow exultant Kay Spreckels Gable, 42. Her mission: to give birth (by Caesarean section) to the late cinema king's first child. Discussing the hope of her still unending torrent of fan mail that the baby be a boy, Mrs. Gable pondered pos sible names, rejected "Clark Jr." She recalled: "He and I talked about that, but he thought it would be too much of a handicap for a child to bear." Politics makes strange expense ac counts. Among recent costs reported to congressional watchdogs by the Demo cratic National Committee: a Washington hotel bill punctiliously counted to the last $62.16 by Millionaire 0. Mennen Williams (who last week donned a Liberian robe on one of the final stops of his month-long African stomp), a $103.72 charge from a Texas bus company "for tour of L.B.J. ranch," $19.14 worth of air fare for Actress Rita Gam, and $3,854.52 for Manhattan lodging of guests of a Democrat who was also mentioned on a $30 capital tab under the cryptic ledger entry, "Moving piano for F. Sinatra." Prior to his confirmation as USIA di rector, Edward R. Murrow faced a Sen ate committee, testified restlessly ("I didn't know smoking was allowed; normally I would have used up a package"), promised to make U.S. policy "every where intelligible and, wherever possible, palatable." Shortly thereafter, Iowa's Re publican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper questioned Murrow sharply about a CBS documentary a few years ago that portrayed Iowa farmers as poverty-stricken.

Said Hickenlooper: "You had one scene there showing a baby carriage being sold.

The connotation was that it had to be sold for money. We had a little investiga tion, and we found that the sale had been planned for months and these people didn't even have a baby." And, continued Hickenlooper, what about "that farmer who said he was driven from his farm and forced to migrate? He told us that he sold his farm because his wife wanted to move to California." Replied TV Veteran Mur row blandly: "It is not uncommon to have one thing said to the cameras and another later on." Always aggressive in his gripe against the grape. South Carolina's teetotaling Democratic Senator Olin D. Johnston was determined to beat back attempts to raise U.S. diplomats' "representation allowance," otherwise known as the "booze fund." "I have never heard of the United States influencing anyone to our benefit as a result of feeding him liquor," said Johnston. Then, turning himself to the influence of alcohol on the home front, he lamented: "There is no way of telling how many people with good minds came to Washington and, taken in by the drinking circuit, eventually left town broken, senseless and in ill repute."

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