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In Washington, Chief Justice Fred Vinson, who swore in three new aides for the Attorney General, explained why he postponed the ceremony for 30 minutes: the twelve-year-old son of one of the new aides was scheduled to play with his school basketball team and also wanted to see his father take the oath. The Chief Justice agreed to wait until the game was over.

Among those who attended the Washington premiere of the movie Never Wave at a WAC was General of the Army Omar Bradley, who plays the part of himself in the picture. Said Bit-Player Bradley after the show: "I'm not an expert, but they tell me I looked natural."

At an American Legion meeting in Washington, Admiral William Fechteler, Chief of Naval Operations, commented on some of his recent reading. Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny. Said the Old Sea Dog: "It's a hell of a good yarn, but I often wonder how one Naval Reserve officer could have collected in two years in one little ship all the screwballs I have known in my 30 years in the Navy."

A photographer found Adlai Stevenson enjoying some of the advantages of political defeat: basking in the Barbados sun, apparently without a worry in the world and with just enough work on hand to keep from getting bored (editing his campaign speeches for publication in book form).

In Omaha, a local drama critic gave Katharine Cornell the privilege of reviewing her own opening performance of The Constant Wife. Sample of the Cornell review: "I am afraid we were a little too swift tonight . . . But really, I do think we were all better than we were in Sioux City ... If I were to grade tonight's performance, I'd give it a B-plus."

Poet W. H. Auden, a recent collaborator on the libretto for The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky, was appointed to the William Allan Neilson Research Professorship at Smith College.

The experts at the annual New York Baseball Writers' dinner in Manhattan enjoyed an entertainment dividend when Tallulah Bankhead, a dedicated Giant fan, appeared in Leo Durocher's uniform with a few ideas about changing the club. Her suggested improvements: uniforms by Hattie Carnegie, champagne in the water bucket, spring training on the Riviera, and "no more day games. No one comes to matinees anyway any more but women's clubs."

Marine Captain Jerry Coleman, Yankee second baseman and a dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific in World War II, went into another combat inning. His score for the first two days in Korea: two enemy railroad bridges destroyed with 1,000-lb. bombs. Scheduled to join him and fellow Marine aviators in Korea this week: Captain Ted Williams, sometime outfielder for Boston's Red Sox.

The Infanta Maria Christina of Spain, daughter of the late King Alfonso and wife of Count Enrico Marone-Cinzano of the vermouth family, arrived from Italy for her first visit to Manhattan. Her reaction: "What you in New York pay a cook, Rome pays an ambassador."

The United Mine Workers went through the motions of electing a president for another four-year term. Winner: John L. Lewis, president since 1920.

His Hollywood landlady sued Tenor Mario Lanza for a total of $19,801 in back rent and damages.

At California's Travis Air Force Base, Major John Eisenhower had a brief meeting with Marine Lieut. Allen Macy Dulles, son of the new head of Central Intelligence Agency and nephew of the Secretary of State. The major was on his way back to Korea to finish his tour of duty; the lieutenant, a stretcher patient bound for Bethesda Naval Hospital and further treatment for battle wounds.

His former lawyer dropped a footnote on Fritz Kuhn, the Gauleiter of the German-American Bund, who was kicked out of the U.S. in 1945 after 17 years' residence: unmourned, unknown and broke, Kuhn died Nov. 14, 1951, of a heart attack, in a Munich hospital.

In Hollywood, onetime Cinemactor John Agar, former husband of Shirley Temple, who was still on probation for a 1951 drunken driving conviction, was picked up again. The judge sent him back to jail to finish the 120 days of his original sentence, and promised a further sentence on the new offense.

Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra for the past 24 years, was made honorary fire chief of Pittsburgh, the seventh city to give him such a title so far in his cross-country concert tour. Reason: Boston Fire Chief Michael Kelleher had written advance letters to all cities on the tour suggesting that his fire-buff musical friend might like the honor. Potential titles yet to come: 52.

In London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Westminster Abbey, built in 1245, is "falling into decay." He asked that English-speaking people throughout the world join in a donation drive to raise $2,800,000 to repair and save "this historic edifice which links the past with the present and gives us confidence in the future."

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