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Greece's ubiquitous King Paul and Queen Frederika turned up in Hollywood, where they dropped in on the White Christmas set at Paramount. Stars Vera-Ellen, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney greeted Their Majesties with a little ceremony in which they puffed out the candles on a large, dummy birthday cake. Amused but confused, the King observed: "It's not my birthday."

To the consternation of the Home Office and Scotland Yard, Princess Margaret, with the blessing of Queen Elizabeth, broke an old royal precedent, went strolling with her Sealyham in London's St. James's Park, unescorted, and--for emphasis--without a hat.

In East Berlin, Gerhart Eisler, onetime top U.S. Communist who skipped the country in 1949 to return to the workers' paradise in his homeland, was finding life less heavenly than ever. Already forbidden to grind out propaganda under his own byline, Eisler had now been kicked out of his imposing villa. The villa's new tenant: East Germany's Deputy President Heinrich Rau.

The family of Clara Petacci, mistress of Benito Mussolini who died with him at the hands of a Milanese mob in 1945, sued the Italian government for return of 36 love !enters from Il Duce to Clara, plus pages from her diary and other personal documents. Although the government confiscated the papers because of their "national historical interest." Rome buzzed with the word that the letters are not yet entirely historical. As the rumor went, the government is reluctant to part with evidence that many a now prominent Italian asked favors of Mussolini through the dictator's doxy.

In Las Vegas, appearing at the Sahara Hotel for $12,500 a week, Christine (ne George) Jorgensen, 27, showed off an engagement ring received from a Washington, D.C. suitor who also sends yellow roses every day. The suitor: willowy (6 ft. 3 in.) Artist Patrick Flanigan, 26, now married but planning a divorce. Flanigan, who painted his way into Christine's affections during 60 hours of portrait sittings, was like any young man in love. "We're just two people trying to find peace and happiness," said he. "She [Christine] is beautiful--and a lady."

In Cairo, Egypt's ex-Queen Narriman, fed up with the penny-pinching and well-publicized antics of deposed King Farouk, slapped him with two suits, one for divorce, the other for $14,000-a-month alimony (which she can collect for only one year under Islamic law). In exile in Rome, leering and prancing as usual, Farouk told friends that he will deny everything (through a Syrian lawyer, because no Egyptian attorney will touch him with a 10ft. obelisk) and will ask the court to order Narriman to return to him and little ex-King Faud II.

As touring Vice President Richard Nixon sat enjoying an official program of folksongs and dancing in Korea, part of the low stage collapsed, easing some 40 performers to the ground. In the ensuing pandemonium, the orchestra leader fled the theater in tears. Then Nixon took the situation in hand, leaped to his feet and led a round of applause. After the entertainers clambered back onto the remainder of the stage and finished the show, Nixon commented: "Another example of the courage of the Korean people."

Beaming citizens of Carlyle, Ill. (pop. 2,700) heartily cheered Major General William F. Dean on a visit to his boyhood home town. Brushing aside the home folks' tribute to his valor, Dean spoke sharply: "Anybody who's dumb enough to get captured shouldn't be called a hero."

In Moscow's Red Square, according to a Pravda announcement, the pyramidal tomb which the embalmed remains (or a reasonable facsimile) of Nikolai Lenin now share with the body of Josef Stalin will be opened to the faithful this week for the first time since Stalin's death.

Wealthy San Francisco Attorney Vincent Hallinan, 56, who picked up 135,007 votes as the Communist-backed Progressive Party's candidate for President last year, was convicted of evading $36,639.24 in income taxes from 1947 through 1950. A man who has never let the pinkness of his politics distract him from the green of his money, Hallinan had reported only 20% of his law income for the four years, had also written off as business deductions such bourgeois items as a gymnasium and swimming pool in his home.

At a wedding reception in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Helen Keller, 73, who, though sightless and deaf since infancy, has long had a desire to dance, finally tried it. cut a commendable figure with an old friend, Chicago Attorney A. R. Peterson.

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