Kith & Kin

In Washington, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson had a hearty greeting for a new lawyer: his son, Fred Jr. A graduate of Washington and Lee University, he had just passed the District of Columbia bar exams and was ready to hang out his shingle. His mother hoped that he would stick to private practice. Said Mrs. Vinson: "He was considering going into Government for experience, but I hope he won't. I've had enough of Government service in our family."

Near Freehold, N.J., police stopped a hitchhiker carrying a bundle of leaves that looked suspiciously like marijuana, and discovered the hiker was Playwright Eugene O'Neill's son Shane, 31, released two years ago from the U.S. narcotics hospital in Lexington, Ky. The leaves turned out to be harmless weeds, but O'Neill was sentenced to 15 days in jail for hitchhiking.

Clutching the hand of her father Dr. Peter Lindstrom as they stepped off the plane at New York's Idlewild Airport, little Pia (Jenny Ann) once again faced a group of curious reporters. Could she tell them about the meeting with her mother Ingrid Bergman? "Please, she's only twelve," said her father, and proceeded to answer the questions himself. She had spent eight days with her mother in London; he had had a "cordial" meeting with her, too.

Michael Mann, 34, youngest son of Author Thomas Mann (see BOOKS), chose the Santa Monica High School auditorium for his American debut as a concert violist when he returns from Austria this month. Scheduled to share the program with him: Pianist Yaltah Menuhin, sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin.

In Los Angeles, John Joseph Pershing, 19, fifth cousin of the late great General John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing, signed on for a hitch in the Navy. Said he: "I want to learn a trade and I figure the Navy is the best place."

In London, George Mansfield, 39, farmer and naturalized British subject since 1945, filed for the right to resume his full and legal name: Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christof von Preussen. Said the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II: "It is only a question of establishing legally my correct family name and title. The name Mansfield was merely a convenience in my business dealings on the farm."

Brass & Bounce

At Washington's Boiling Air Force Base, with a squadron of jets rumbling in salute overhead, General George C. Kenney, 62, commander of MacArthur's air forces in World War II, took his last review, got some final honors for 34 years of service. Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster to Kenney's Distinguished Service Medal for the past three years as head of the Air University, then added another medal, the Legion of Merit, for his service (1946) as senior U.S. member on the United Nations Military Staff Committee. From Secretary of Defense General George C. Marshall came a personal letter. Said Airman Kenney, World War I combat pilot and one of the last of his breed on active duty in the Air Force: "I don't know what I'm going to do or where I'm going to be. But if you hear anybody say I'm going to sit on a front porch, you'd better call the nearest undertaker and tell him to stock up on embalming fluid. He's going to need it."

Britain's Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison finished his Scandinavian holiday by eating a codfish and champagne lurch with Queen Louise and King

Gustaf VI of Sweden at their Sofiero summer palace. King Gustaf apologized for the main dish, explaining that even a royal fisherman must dine on what he catches. Said he: "It should have been tunny fish, which we were out to get this morning, but we caught 15 codfish instead."

The Duke of Windsor agreed to make his first public appearance in London since he abdicated nearly 15 years ago. His role: guest of honor at a publishers' banquet celebrating the British edition of his memoirs.

In Texas City, Texas, when 150 curious citizens turned out to see the trial of Houston's wealthy Oilman Glenn McCarthy, charged with reckless driving, the justice of the peace ordered the hearing moved to the city hall auditorium. There, in festive fashion, the spectators drank pop, rolled the bottles down the aisle, heard the justice fine McCarthy $5 plus costs. The sting was poulticed later by inviting the defendant to attend Texas City's fair next week. McCarthy not only agreed to come, but said he would lead the parade, riding on a Palomino pony.

After a Salzburg recital, at which courteous critics favorably compared her personality with that of France's Mistinguetr but tactfully omitted mention of her voice, oldtime Opera Diva Maria Jeritza, now a mellow 63, arrived in Vienna. Looking forward to hearing her try another comeback next week, enthusiastic fans swarmed the streets; a band serenaded her hotel until she stepped out on the balcony and threw garlands of flowers to the crowd. Her husband, a Newark umbrella manufacturer, was doing his part to help the buildup. He had already given away 10,000 umbrellas to his wife's admirers.

In Atlanta, oldtime Cinemactor Francis X. Bushman asked to be driven to the capitol grounds for a look at the statue of Confederate General John B. Gordon. Explained Bushman, recalling his days as an artist's model at $10 a pose, "I've always wanted to see him. I posed for his body but they added General Gordon's head."

Quiet Zone

On the grounds of a Zurich clinic, photographers got a picture they had given up hope of getting: a shot of Sir Stafford Cripps, looking older and ravaged by pain, but on his feet again. His response to treatment for a tubercular spine condition also amazed his doctors, who predicted that he would be able to leave for his home in England within a month.

In Detroit, Henry Ford II explained that his wife had been bedridden for six days by polio, but was up and around again "with no known effects as the result of this very mild attack."

Mrs. Charles W. Tobey, who has been nursing her husband, Senator Tobey, back to health after his stroke two months ago, slipped, fell in her Temple, N.H. home and fractured her hip.

Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore received two VIPatients. After a visit to the White House to sign the Philippine-U.S. defense pact, President Elpidio Quirino hustled over to a four-room suite for a check on how he was recovering from last year's kidney-stone operation. Senora Maria Delgado Odria, wife of Peru's President, arrived for a thorough physical exam.

On vacation in Nantucket, Oklahoma Senator Mike Monroney checked in for a checkup at the local hospital to find out what was making him so weary. He had one clue: "There certainly is a lot more work to being a Senator than a Congressman."

The Dreamland Set

Each in his own way, Hollywood luminaries were facing up to life's problems:

In Beverly Hills, Cesar Romero flunked a sobriety test after wrapping his Cadillac around another car; a few drinks later, a few blocks away, Bruce Cabot wrapped his Cadillac around a tree.

A Los Angeles judge gave John Agar, ex-husband of Shirley Temple, five months in jail for persistent drunken driving.

When his boat hit a log and capsized in the Snake River rapids of Wyoming, Van Hetlin considered himself lucky to escape with a bruised body and rock-slashed face.

At Lake Tahoe, Nev., singing his way through his six weeks' required divorce residence, Frank Sinatra scoffed at reports that he had taken an overdose of sleeping pills. Grumbled the crooner: "I just had a bellyache; suicide is the farthest thought from my mind."

Charging extreme cruelty, "entirely mental in character," Rita Hayworth's lawyers filed the papers on "Margarita Cansino Khan v. Aly Salmone Khan" in the Reno divorce court, leaving the matter of a settlement for daughter Yasmin up to the court.

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