The Beautiful People

Health Culturist Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who celebrated his 83rd birthday last summer by parachuting into the Hudson River, was still muscle-bent on proving his favorite adage: ''This business of growing old is all nonsense." His plans for celebrating his 84th birthday next month: a trip to England and a parachute leap into the Thames.

In Manhattan, Christine ("Cee Cee") Cromwell, 29, heiress to part of the Dodge auto fortune, celebrated a Virgin Islands divorce from her third husband, Richard Hoffmann Jr. "I got my second divorce on the advice of my psychiatrist," said Cee Cee, who runs a successful Virgin Islands nightclub. "I got this one on the advice of my banker."

At a seaside villa in Santa Marinella, Italy, some 20 photographers arrived to record the latest production of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini: the debut of their 21-day-old twin daughters, christened Isotta Ingrid Frieda Giuliana and Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna.

Aly Khan, whose expensive hobbies are entertaining beautiful women and racing fine horses, made hotel reservations for a trip to the U.S. to shop at the annual sale of thoroughbred yearlings at Saratoga Springs next month.

In London, Margaret Truman was getting the VIP tour. Highlights: a 90-minute tour of Scotland Yard, lunch with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, tea at Buckingham Palace along with some 7,000 other guests at the first garden party given by Queen Elizabeth II, dinner at the home of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., where guests enjoyed "a very subdued singsong or community hum." The trip, said Mar garet, has a two-fold purpose: to give her voice a rest and to escape from politics. Said she: "I've been to the last four conventions; I've served my time."

In Manhattan, where he is wielding a guest baton at Lewisohn Stadium, San Francisco's French-born Conductor Pierre Monteux decided it was high time to explain the discrepancy between his white moustache and black hair and to deny again the rumor that his hair is dyed. Said he: "My moustache is white from kissing the girls. But my hair is true black. Anyone is welcome to come with alcohol, with shampoo, with anything, to wash my hair and prove it."

Yesterday & Tomorrow

What with the Memorial Theater, Anne Hathaway's cottage and the constant stream of tourists, the citizens of Stratford on Avon (pop. 15,000) decided that Famous Son William Shakespeare was too much with them these days. To satisfy their complaints, the town council voted to spend up to $560 a week to bring ordinary vaudeville shows to a local music hall.

At Cherry Point, N.C., photographers caught the former Boston Red Sox outfield Slugger Ted Williams warming up in another league. Recalled to active duty in the Marine Corps last May, Captain Williams, who served three years with the Marines in World War II, one of them as aviation instructor at Pensacola, is getting a refresher course in the finer points of fighter planes.

For the first time since a sudden and serious operation put him on the sick list last spring, Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg visited his Pentagon office last week. If all goes well, he expects to be back on full-time duty next month or early in September.

The Political Animal

At an official lunch in Godthaab, Poul Hugo Lundsteen, Governor of Greenland, spread a Viking's banquet board for Denmark's visiting King Frederik and Queen Ingrid. The menu: spiced walrus fin, skin of narwhal, fresh Greenland shrimp, salmon, lamb, white grouse, auk pie, liver-paste of seal, sweet Greenland radishes, topped off with soda pop and champagne.

In Pittsburgh, after a jury trial found him guilty under the state's antisedition law, Steve Nelson, 49, western Pennsylvania Communist Party chairman (also accused by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1948 of passing atomic secrets to the Russian vice consul in San Francisco), was sentenced to 20 years in jail, fined $10,000 and court costs.

In London, for the New York Times, a reporter asked the Labor Party's Aneurin Bevan how he really felt about Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The answer: "I've always looked upon him as more of an artist than an intellectual. This is to be seen most clearly in his speeches. He takes enormous care preparing them. Lloyd George once said to me, 'When Churchill has made a speech, he thinks he has won a battle.' Lloyd George made it clear he considered that Mr. Churchill's excessive preoccupation with words was a great weakness . . . It is Mr. Churchill's awareness that he is fundamentally a man of letters which compels him all the time to insist he is really a man of action. He is not a great orator, because careful preparation beforehand is not the way oratory is produced . . . His most endearing quality is his mental generosity. He never spares himself in conversation . . . He gives himself so generously that hardly anybody else is permitted to give anything in his presence."

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