To the glass of fashion, it was indeed the mold of form. When Amanda Jay (“Ba”) Mortimer, 20, pacesetting daughter of Best-Dressed Mrs. William S. Paley and Manhattan Socialite Stanley Mortimer, married Law Student Shirley Carter Burden Jr., 22, on Long Island, Women’s Wear Daily styled it in advance as “the wedding of the year.” Ba wore white organza by Mainbocher; Ma, coral plaid taffeta by Dior. But it was more than that, and the reception at the estate of CBS Chairman Paley proved a crossroads of several worlds: Mr. and Mrs. Winston Guest, Actress Lauren Bacall, Mr. Kenneth (the hairdresser), Columnist Joseph Alsop, Publisher John Hay Whitney, Hollywood’s Mike Romanoff, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who flew in from London to be one of 19 ushers. Said Paley when the affair was over: “I wish we had a wedding every week. What are we going to do next week?”
Hello muddah, hello faddah, Here I am in old Vancouver, And some B.C. beats are swinging, They are picketing the nightclub where
I’m singing. With them long beards, strumming
guitars,
Sounding like a bunch of cheetahs, They say funny folk songs all stink, Waving placards, “Allan Sherman is
a Folk Fink.”
Now I ask you, Joanie Baez, Petie Seeger, Burlie Ives, Won’t you come and buy my tickets? Who is phony? Is it me or is it just
the pickets?
“All I want is for everyone to let me be a normal girl again,” said Piccadolly Christine Keeler, 22, last December as she marched off to London’s Holloway Prison to serve nine months for perjury in the trial of one of her lovers, Aloysius (“Lucky”) Gordon. But six months of playing Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl, making blouses in prison, have given the past mistress of art photography notions of graduating to Vistavision. Out of quod last week, three months early for “good behavior,” Christine announced, “I’d like to go into films. I know I’ve no experience, but I’ve got to begin somewhere.”
He was engaged to marry pretty Olympic Skier Barbi Henneberger when she was killed in the April 12 Alpine avalanche that also took the life of U.S. Down hill Ace Bud Werner. And the memory of that tragic day is not growing any dimmer for Willy Bogner Jr., 22, son of the Bavarian stretch-pants manufacturer and a fledgling moviemaker. He has been indicted by a Swiss state prosecutor for homicidal negligence in Barbi’s and Werner’s deaths. Such cases usually receive light sentences, but, for the sake of assigning responsibility, the state expects to prove that in his eagerness to complete a documentary in which the two skiers were starring, young Bogner, as producer of the film, ignored government notices and broadcasts warning of dangerous conditions.
When Soviet Cosmonette Valentino Tereshlcova, 27, first woman to orbit the earth, married fellow Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayeev, 34, last November, a beaming Khrushchev told the couple, “If you have a baby, the gifts won’t fail to come.” Last week, the lobby of Moscow’s Maternity Institute was filled with proud citizens bearing flowers and remembrances, as “Valya” presented her husband with the world’s first cosmonipper
per, a 6 Ib. 13 oz. Caesarean-delivered girl. Soviet doctors said she was a trifle premature, and they will be watching to see whether she suffers any ill effects from her parents’ exposure (in 1962 and early 1963) to weightlessness and radiation. But for the moment, young Yelena Andrianovna seems to snooze as contentedly as any un-star-crossed child.
Long ago, when she was still the toast of Gay Paree, St. Louis’s own Bird of Paradise, Josephine Baker, 58, fell in love with a 15th century château. She bought it, and turned it into a home for her eleven adopted children from Japan, Korea, Finland, Colombia, Venezuela, the Ivory Coast, Algeria and France. But crowds today do not flock to hear Josie as often as they used to; the debts at “Brotherhood Village” ran up until farmers would not even deliver milk, and the chateau, it seemed, would soon be put up for auction. Ah, mes amis, the heart of Paris is ever young and gay. Brigitte Bardot went on TV to plead for funds, and now an international committee headed by Biographer Andre Maurois has raised $140,000 from around the world.
Ill lay: Singer Kate Smith, 55, in the Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla., with 25 stitches in her left arm after she fell in the shower (breaking the glass door) at the home of a friend with whom she has been staying since the death of longtime Manager Ted Collins; Los Angeles Dodger Pitcher Johnny Podres, 31, out of the line-up for at least a month to recover from an operation to remove a bone fragment in his pitching elbow; Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, 69, Australia’s Prime Minister, at his home in Canberra with “a recurrence of an abdominal disorder” that forced him to cancel a visit to Israel; Patriarch Athenagoras I, 78, spiritual leader of the Orthodox Church, at his Istanbul apartments for “a complete rest” following his collapse while officiating at Ascension Eve ceremonies.
Must one really sit Vacation Camp Pioneer Billy Butlin, 64, farther up the table than, say, former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan? Well rather, since Butlin is now a knight, Sir Billy, while Mac is still (by choice) an ‘umble commoner. That’s the way it is after the Queen’s annual birthday list honored another 2,000 loyal subjects of Her Most Britannic Majesty. Sir Roger Makins, 60, former Ambassador to the U.S., chairman of Britain’s Atomic Energy Authority, is a viscount; Road Racing Champion Jimmy Clark, 28, and Royal Ballet Choreographer Robert Helpmann, 55, have both been made Commanders of the Order of the British Empire; and one William Aungier, a London bus driver with 43 years’ service, was awarded the British Empire Medal.
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