The frail old lady in the big baroque chair listened gravely to the speeches. The honorary doctorate, said Professor Hans Strotzka, "is a symbolic act which marks a formal end to the exclusion of psychoanalysis from Vienna University." Dr. Anna Freud, 76, was being honored at last in the city from which her pioneering father, Dr. Sigmund Freud, fled 34 years ago. Other speakers insisted that the tribute was hers alone, for her work in child psychoanalysis. Anna Freud felt otherwise. "Academic honors are not usually hereditary," she said in the dry, careful diction she uses with her youthful patients, "but I feel that herewith I inherit my father's part."

Candidate for the year's most beautiful unwed mother: French Film Star Catherine Deneuve, 28, who last week had her second illegitimate child--a daughter, as yet unnamed. Her first, eight-year-old Christian, is the son of Director Roger Vadim. Among the earliest to congratulate the new mother was Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni, with whom she shares a Paris apartment.

With mixed feelings of "joy and paranoia," Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein, 53, appeared before a tough, critical audience last week: the National Press Club in Washington. To the newsmen, the protean showman defended his Mass--the liturgical theater piece he wrote to open the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts last September. One of the many misconceptions he wanted to clear up, said Lenny, was the idea that Rose Kennedy hated the composition. "The only quotes I ever read of hers in the press were 'I liked Hair better' and 'Don't hug me so hard--you'll spoil my makeup,' " said Bernstein. In fact, "she was terribly moved" at the performance and had written him that the Mass was "a masterpiece" and "a soul-stirring experience for us all."

Conductor Andre Kostelanetz figured that it might be fun to get together with his exwife, Soprano Lily Pons--at least for a concert. With Kostelanetz on the podium of Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall and Pons at 68 looking frightened and fragile, nostalgic fans found that time has left a bit of dust on Lily's middle voice but that the famous high tones are still silvery. After a soaring Estrellita, Lily got a standing ovation, then dodged her well-wishers and headed straight for bed.

Cesar Chavez, 45, veteran and victor of many a bitter battle for his United Farm Workers, was a casualty of his latest struggle--a 20-day fast to protest a new Arizona law that forbids secondary boycotts and strikes by farm workers at harvest time. Drawn and wasted after losing 30 Ibs. Chavez was wheeled to an ambulance through the 90DEG heat of Phoenix, feebly moving his head to avoid the blasting sun. Cesar's condition was serious, said his doctor. Meanwhile, defiant Arizona laborers began leaving the harvest-ready fields, shouting "Viva Chavez!"

Who will follow in the trochees of the late Cecil Day-Lewis as Britain's 19th poet laureate? No hurry about it, of course--there was a seven-month wait last time, after the death of John Masefield in 1967. But the British press is already kicking names around. Most of the names don't seem to be overjoyed at the thought of the honor, which carries a yearly stipend of $182, plus $70 "in lieu of a butt of sack." Says Poet Stephen Spender, 63: "I do not want to do anything that would make me more hated by other writers than I already am." However, he had a helpful suggestion: "What we really want from a poet laureate is high camp. W.H. Auden is superbly qualified." From Austria, Auden wrote the London Times that he was "amazed and distressed" at the suggestion that he should give up his American citizenship to accept the honor. "Even if I coveted the post, which I don't, to do such a thing for such a motive I should regard as contemptible."

Pope Paul VI, who has strongly urged all Roman Catholic bishops to retire at 75, turns 75 himself in September. In April, when Italian newspapers were speculating that Paul might be the first Pope in modern history to resign the Pontiff gave a talk to some nuns in which he was quoted as saying "I do not want to give up the papacy." Apparently it was felt that so bald an avowal gave too much recognition to the possibility of retirement. The Vatican has just released a tape of the wistful words Paul really uttered: "It would be beautiful to be able to shake off the burden of the church and say I do not want it."

Belly Dancer Nadia Parsa was doing her peristaltic stuff at a press party in Teheran when in walked Presidential Adviser Henry A. Kissinger with Iranian Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveida and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Siseo. Her kohl-rimmed eyes gleaming, Nadia undulated over to the tables where the VIPS were sitting. Then, while Iranian plainclothesmen efficiently stymied the photographers, she nestled herself on Kissinger's lap for three minutes or so. "A delightful girl," said Henry the K later, "very interested in foreign policy." What had they talked about? Answered Kissinger, with a straight face: "I spent some time explaining how you convert S57 missiles to Y Class submarines."

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