Someone was in the Kitchen Cabinet with Bundy. Widely reported as having written off the Administration's early accomplishments--"At this point, we are like the Harlem Globetrotters, passing forward, behind, sideways and underneath. But nobody has made a basket yet"-White House Aide McGeorge Bundy blew the whistle last week. Explaining that he had just been fending off compliments to the Kennedy Administration, had quoted Cambridge-Washington Colleague Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (who had in turn borrowed the gag from Capital Attorney Paul A. Porter), Harvard's ex-faculty dean hustled out his own scorecard: "My position is that this Administration is scoring a basket every 30 seconds by the clock."
After serving twelve years in prison for treason, Maine-born Spinster Mildred Gillars, 60, siren-singing "Axis Sally" of World War II, will be paroled in July, plans to work in a nunnery, possibly teaching music.
Long associated with Philadelphia's Drexel & Co., Investment Banker Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., followed his father as a partner in 1940, left 13 years later for a succession of Defense Department posts, wound up as Eisenhower's last Defense Secretary. Last week, after a long vacation from Pentagon politics, Main Liner Gates received his Capital gain: the executive committee chairmanship of Manhattan's gold-plated Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.
Unconcerned about where the boys were, Notre Dame Senior Ronald Como, 21, chunkier look-alike son of Perry Como, 47, and the crooner's pretty wife Roselle, spent spring vacation with his parents on Florida's Jupiter Island. Father and son characteristically kept aloof from the social-registered regulars of nearby Palm Beach, spent their time digging sand-flea bait and fishing for pompano.
"Has anything happened?" asked worried, aproned Housewife Judith Coplon Socolov, as she was accosted on her Brooklyn stoop by two newsmen. The answer was no, and the absence of news made a front-page story in the newly enterprising New York Herald Tribune. Twelve years before, Judith Coplon, then a 27-year-old Justice Department employee, was arrested for trying to pass classified information to a Soviet agent, was convicted on two counts of espionage. But her sentences, which totaled 25 years, were variously set aside and postponed. After the Supreme Court refused to review the legal confusion, the Justice Department stopped trying to put Judy away. Convicted Spy Coplon--still free on $60,000 bail ($40,000 of it in cash), and the wife of a member of her legal task force--has raised four children since the FBI caught her.
"In recognition of his exceptional and courageous contributions to universal peace through the forum of the United Nations," former U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge received the Amvets' World Peace Award. Previous winners:
Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, Richard M. Nixon, Dean Rusk.
As he made his picture debut, two-week-old John Clark Gable was billed by his mama as "a carbon copy" of his late cinema-king father. Purred a radiant Kay Williams Spreckels Gable: "When. I compare Clark's baby pictures with those of John, they are practically identical. He has a crop of dark brown hair just like his father's, and his little fingers and legs are really Clark's."
When it comes to exhorting his fellow citizens to do something for their country, no problem is too small for President John F. Kennedy. Upon hearing that Peter Galbraith, 10, son of Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, was reluctant to leave Cambridge for New Delhi, Kennedy ripped off a letter recalling his own family's uprooting after his father took over the London embassy. Informed that Peter was an animal lover, the President pointed out India's "fascinating possibilities (although I gather that cobras have to be handled professionally)," encouraged the lad to think of himself as part of "a junior Peace Corps," added an intimate postscript: "I wish a little that I were going also."
When his collaborator of 18 years, Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, died last summer, Composer Richard Rodgers said sadly, "I can't bring myself to get involved with anyone else." But last week Rodgers announced what he described as the "almost inevitable": partnership with Alan Jay Lerner, whose longtime coworker, Fritz Loewe, had decided on a lengthy vacation from Broadway.
"Those tax folks have been ahoundin' me so long and I been afightin' them so long I just thought it'd never end," mumbled partially paralyzed, nearly blind World War I hero Sergeant Alvin York, 73, whose federal income tax debt totaled $172,000, as against a monthly income of $177.45 (all from Social Security and G.I. benefits, including his Medal of
Honor bonus). But last month the intercession of President Jack Kennedy and Attorney General Bobby Kennedy eased an Internal Revenue compromise claim of $25,000, and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who was born only 50 miles from York's Tennessee mountain home, kicked off a campaign to raise the cash. With Mister Sam and Bob Kennedy contributing $1,000 apiece, and other fund raisers (among them: Cinemactor Gary Cooper, who starred in the 1941 film biography that brought about the veteran's tax bind) pitching in, the drive shot over the top last week. Sergeant York will be hounded no more.
Brown University President Emeritus Henry M. Wriston, 71, a lifelong group-think catalyst who in 1954 chaired the Secretary of State's Public Committee on Personnel, last year headed President Eisenhower's blue-ribbon Commission on National Goals, and is currently president of the goals commission's administering body, the American Assembly, returned to Brown to keynote an undergraduate conference. His opening gambit: "No one in his right mind should look to a committee to produce new ideas."
"Carnegie Hall Salutes Jack Benny" was the billing for the concert honoring the onetime boy violin prodigal, now 67, who in the past few years has scraped away to raise more than $2,000,000 for symphony orchestras in 16 U.S. cities. Climax of the evening was the appearance of Carnegie President Isaac Stern, who joined the comedian in Bach's Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins. In the afternoon rehearsal, while Benny fiddled, Stern burned: "I wish you'd play C-sharp." "Where?" wondered Benny. Advised Stern: "Where it's written." But during the actual program, Jack somehow rose to the white-tie occasion, rationalized: "It's like playing golf with a pro; nobody expects you to match him, and you are not embarrassed if he beats the pants off you."
After acting as the New Frontier's savvy liaison man with the outgoing Administration, Washington Attorney Clark Clifford was hired last week by the General Electric Co. Duty of the onetime top Truman brain-truster: advising the company on the multi-million-dollar damage claims resulting from February's antitrust convictions.
On an anthropological expedition to unmapped jungles of Netherlands New Guinea, Michael Rockefeller, 22-year-old son of the New York Governor, peered through his horn-rimmed glasses and spotted a band of Willigiman-Wallalua warriors. Weeks later, the wanderlusting Harvard alumnus was still in his Baliem Valley element, excitedly filming "an area of the world and people never photographed before" and carrying out his special expedition mission: recording the off-beat music of the bellicose Willigiman-Wallalua, a harmonic grinding of teeth, backed by contrapuntal hoots and rumbles.
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