About 1,200 Canadian Liberal Party workers and their wives went wild for the drummer who sat in with the Renaissance rock group at Ottawa's Chateau Laurier hotel. Flailing away at the snares, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau managed to make his own music. Said Jean-Guy Morin, the regular Renaissance drummer, "His left hand wasn't all that good, but then his right hand wasn't much either." After Trudeau had returned to the dance floor, Morin had another thought: "Maybe if I practice, I could be Prime Minister."

Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley is the stuff political cartoons are made of--and books like Boss, by Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko. When she saw the book for sale, the mayor's wife, "Sis," was so incensed she got one chain of Chicago supermarkets to remove it from its shelves. It was soon put back, however, and it has now been made into a musical that will open in Chicago's suburban Forum Theater next month. Hizzoner is played by Larry Gittelson, who, when he isn't acting, works as a floriculturist with the Chicago Park District. How long he will have the city job may be a question. During rehearsals, his home phone is answered by a taped message: "This is Richard J. Daley, de king--uh--de boss--de mare of Chicago. This call is being handled by my Democratic--uh--automatic machine. Everything in Chicago is handled by my automatic machine."

Lady Bird Johnson was back in Washington, D.C., for the first time since her husband lay in state there three months ago. At the National Portrait Gallery, she unveiled a bronze bust of Sam Rayburn, the Speaker of the House for 17 years. "Lyndon always loved to think himself as "Lyndon one of the 'Speaker's think boys,' "she said. In Manhattan, Mrs. Johnson was greeted with a standing ovation by the audience of Irene, the same heavily sugared musical that got an enthusiastic minority review by Theatergoer Richard Nixon.

All mellow and moist-eyed, Frank Sinatra had finally made it. The Kennedys may have snubbed him because of his underworld connections. Richard Nixon may have regretted his lack of gallantry with Columnist Maxine Cheshire. But now all was forgiven. There Frank was in the White House, singing ten of his old favorites for visiting Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti. The President himself led the standing ovation after Ol' Man River and called his visiting star "the Washington Monument of entertainment." Afterward, Sinatra went back to his newly rented Washington town house and gave a party for a few friends, including Spiro Agnew. Hanging over the saloon-sized bar was a plaque with the proverb: "Living well is the best revenge."

Visiting Actress-Activist Shirley Madame was being called "Silly Sister" by her Hong Kong movie fans because they thought she had a silly looking face. There was nothing silly about her trip. Along with eleven other American women, whom she had been allowed to hand pick (she chose a representative group including a Puerto Rican, a Navajo Indian, a black civil rights worker, a George Wallace convention delegate and a twelve-year-old girl), Shirley was on her way to China to visit Mme. Sun Yatsen, Teng Yingchao, wife of Chou En-lai and Chiang Ching, wife of Mao Tse-tung. Shirley also hoped to "discuss with Mao and Chou how they have managed to stay revolutionary at such an elderly age." As for Chou, "We've all decided that he's the sexiest man in the world."

In press interviews and excerpts from her autobiography in Oslo's Aftenposten, Actress Liv Ullmann proves herself a perceptive critic of American men. Henry Kissinger: "Next to Ingmar Bergman, he is the most interesting man I have ever met. He is surrounded by a fascinating aura, a strange field of light, and catches you in some kind of invisible net." George McGovern: When he talks, "the words just keep coming and coming as if he hopes that a little life and truth will sneak through." Senator Ted Kennedy: "Has red and tired eyes. He has short, nervous laughter, sounds like a horse. Ted is constantly searching and searching--all night long. He walks from group to group with a glass in his hand and looks terribly lonesome."

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