Actress Britt Ekland sometimes travels in fast company. On location in Rhodesia for a film titled Slavers, Rock Singer Rod Stewart's lady recently showed up on the set with a pair of borrowed cheetahs. "They're incredibly tame," she says. "If they see prey, they go down on all fours in a stalking motion. You just say, 'Heel, cheetahs,' and they go back to normal." Swedish-born Britt is equally sanguine about the political troubles of racially torn Rhodesia. "It's one of the happiest countries in Africa," she coos. "We haven't heard a single shot or seen one terrorist." O.K., Britt. But don't forget to feed the cats.

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"We were more like teen-agers than a woman in her thirties and a man in his fifties," recalls Kay Summersby Morgan in a forthcoming book. Past Forgetting--My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Summersby, who served as Ike's chauffeur, confidante and companion during much of World War II, wrote the book shortly before she died last year of cancer. An excerpt from her memoir, which appears in the December Ladies ' Home Journal, tells about off-duty hours spent together, mutual professions of love and, despite Ike's marriage to Mamie, plans for children. "We would sit on the sofa in the living room, listen to records, have a couple of drinks, smoke a few cigarettes and steal a few kisses," she remembers. According to Summersby, stolen kisses were as much as the wartime friends could manage. Summersby claims that the general was impotent when they tried to make love. "Ike was tender, careful, loving," she says. "But it just didn't work."

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Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali must be taking retirement lessons from Frank Sinatra. Less than two months after quitting once again, Ali announced plans for a few more lucrative turns around the ring. Taking a break between rounds of his current project, a movie biography titled The Greatest, Ali engaged in some patented prefight name-calling with Heavyweight Challenger George Foreman. George said he was ready for Muhammad, but the champ wants a match with unbeaten Duane Bobick first. "I am the king of boxing," said Ali. "I do what I like when I like."

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She became a professional photographer after selling some pictures of Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. Eventually Linda Eastman McCartney clicked even better with other rock musicians--as a backstage photographer at the Fillmore East in New York and with Beatle Paul McCartney, whom she married in 1969. Linda is still snapping friends and performers, and her work appears in a new book titled Linda's Pictures. "I'm not what you'd call a 'big deal' photographer," she cautions would-be buyers of the $25 album. "I just have a camera, and I take pictures with it. If they turn out well, it's a matter of luck and good karma."

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