Lauren Hutton, 28, was sitting pretty. The omnipresent model had just signed a two-year, $200,000 contract to be the face for Charles Revson's Ultima II beauty products (TIME, July 16). She was in Paris to pose for Richard Avedon in the fall collections for Vogue, and she was considering two film offers.

What about the rumors that Revson objected to her being in suggestive scenes?

"I wouldn't do something that's bad for my image. That wouldn't be smart now, would it?" Then Lauren added: "But Mr. Revson doesn't look to me like a man who objects to sex."

Atlanta Braves' Leftfielder Hank Aaron took time out to go fishing in Mobile, Ala., in the midst of a week during which he slugged his way closer to baseball's grandest alltime record: Babe Ruth's 714 home runs. As the suspense mounted, Aaron denied that pitchers were helping him out in his effort to break the record: "I don't even get balls down the middle in batting practice any more." Aaron, 39, said that even if he does hit No. 715 this year he will play next year. But the 1974 season will be his last. Meanwhile, Aaron plans to marry one of his home-town fans. Billye Williams, 36, a widow with a daughter, 6, met Aaron when she interviewed him for a local television show. Billye later became a regular booster behind the Braves' dugout and the couple have been secretly engaged since Easter.

When they met, Elvis was 25, a sergeant stationed in Bad Nauheim, Germany, and she was 14, the daughter of an Air Force captain. Now, at 28, the former Mrs. Presley, Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, decided to break the silence that surrounded her strangely sequestered marriage with the multimillionaire singer. For four years of their seven-year courtship, Priscilla lived with Elvis' father and stepmother in Memphis, apparently being groomed for marriage. Elvis bought cars for her --"A little red Corvair, then a Chevrolet, a Toronado, an Eldorado and then the Mercedes"--and chauffeured her in a Lincoln Continental with its own bar (soft drinks only). But marriage was never mentioned, or so Priscilla says in the August Ladies' Home Journal.

Finally, in 1967, Elvis popped the question, even though, according to Priscilla, "we were perfectly content the way we were. At that time it wasn't nice for people to live together." They were married in May 1967, and Elvis filed for divorce last January. How has Priscilla explained the divorce to her daughter Lisa Marie, 5? "She thinks Daddy is on a business trip, so it works out."

-Illinois Senator Charles Percy was doing very well for himself in two of America's favorite pastimes. He was the only Republican who was running ahead of Senator Ted Kennedy in the latest Harris Poll on presidential hopefuls.

And his baseball team, made up of staff members and "interns" (temporary aides), won out over the team of Illinois' other Senator, Democrat Adlai Stevenson III. Score: The Percy Kewshuns, 23; Ad's Libs, 17. Next for the Percy Kewshuns, the Ervin committee team.

The man in scarlet robes, looking small and bent in the vast nave of London's Westminster Cathedral, was Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, 81. For many of his fellow Hungarian exiles, the frail figure celebrating Mass for them remained an abiding symbol of the cold war. In 1949 Mindszenty was convicted of treason, espionage and black marketing by the Communist regime in Hungary. He spent seven years in solitary confinement, enjoyed four days of freedom during the uprising in 1956 and then, when the Russians returned, remained for 15 more years in seclusion in the U.S. embassy. Since 1971, the former Primate of Hungary has been living in a seminary in Vienna--continuing, as he wrote Pope Paul, to lead "a life of prayer and penitence" in exile.

Down the steps of the private jetliner that had landed near Rome came the secretaries, a hairdresser and a pair of Pekingese dogs. Then Elizabeth Taylor Burton descended in order to rejoin her husband after their 17-day split.

Elizabeth had nothing to say to the press as she got into a car to be driven to the black Rolls-Royce where Richard Burton was waiting. Both Burtons were wet-- eyed as they embraced, then sped to Sophia Loren's clay-red villa, close by in s the Alban Hills. Fans are advised to 5 stand by for the next installment.

"The house was a gutted ruin rising gaunt and stark out of a grove of unpruned cedar trees," wrote William Faulkner about the Old Frenchman place in his 1931 novel Sanctuary. He might well have been thinking of Rowan Oak, the 1840 mansion he bought in 1930 in Oxford, Miss. Last week the University of Mississippi purchased the refurbished mansion from Faulkner's only daughter for part of a new cultural center. The study wall, with its manuscript chapter outlines of a Faulkner novel, is already a tourist attraction.

"He was a no-good son of a bitch," George Jessel said about Singer Al Jolson, who died in 1950, "but he was the greatest entertainer I've ever seen." According to a new biography by Freelance Michael Freedland, the greatest encore of Jolson's career was his tours for the U.S.O. during World War II.

About to leave for Algiers, he got an urgent phone call from Mamie Eisenhower, who dictated a note to be delivered to her husband: "Dear Ike: Al will give you this note and give you a sweet kiss from me--and also a swift kick, because you haven't written for so long." Jolson delivered the message to General Eisenhower, commander in chief of the Allied Forces in North Africa. "Well," said Ike, "when you get back home, give Mrs. Eisenhower back that kiss. As for the other ..." Ike bent over, lifted the flap of his jacket and told Jolson to carry out his wife's instructions.

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