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Russia's No. 3 Communist, the party's Central Committee Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev, turned 60 and got enough tokens of Premier Georgy Malenkov's favor to suggest that he was riding high above any threat of purge: the Order of Lenin, the Hammer & Sickle Gold Medal, the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. The identical honors were once dealt out to Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, who made a one-way trip to a Moscow cellar last December.

In Oxford, Miss., Mrs. Estelle Faulkner, wife of Novelist William (Sanctuary) Faulkner, disclosed that her husband gave away his 1950 Nobel Prize money. The writer, who is currently in Egypt working on a Warner Bros. CinemaScope movie, Land of the Pharaohs, put the $30,000 into a trust fund to be spent for scholarships and other good works.

Accompanied by Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, Britain's bonnie Prince Charles, 5, and Princess Anne, 3, rode to Portsmouth from London on an electric train. Confused because he is more expert on steam locomotives, Charles asked: "Is there a man in front?" At Portsmouth, the royal party boarded the new 413-ft. royal yacht Britannia (cost: $6,000,000). After tea, the Queen Mother and Margaret went ashore, and the Britannia set course for the Mediterranean, with the children beaming at the rail while bagpipes skirled on the pier. On May 1 the Britannia is due at the Libyan port of Tobruk. There, Prince Charlie and Princess Anne will rendezvous with their globe-girdling parents, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Hot-lipped Trumpeter Louis ("Satch-mo") Armstrong, who correctly named six out of seven melodies on a TV quiz show (his flub: the prelude to Act III of Lohengrin), happily sent his $800 prize to his old alma mater, New Orleans' Milne Municipal Home for Boys, where Satchmo was sent at 13 after he prankishly fired a pistol at the moon to celebrate New Year's Eve in 1913.

Mobster Albert Anastasia, 51, onetime lord high executioner of Murder, Inc., was stripped of his U.S. citizenship (and was thus set up for deportation to Italy) by a Newark federal judge on a relatively petty count. The court's finding: in applying for legal U.S. residence and citizenship, Anastasia twice neglected to report four arrests (three for murder, one for felonious assault), plus a 1923 conviction for gun-toting.

At an international rugby match in Paris' Colombes Stadium, Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery was caught by the photographers giving a patriotic war whoop as England's team scored a three-point try against France. But Monty's joy was short-lived: the Frenchmen went on to win the game, 11 to 3, and tie with England and Wales for the tournament championship.

In Omaha, retired Air Force General George C. Kenney, former boss of the Strategic Air Command, made an atom-rattling speech to a group of reservist air cadets. Estimating that a sneak attack by Russia would kill 20 million Americans, Kenney assured the airmen that "those rascals will hit us here as soon as they have the power." His answer to the threat: "If you have a swamp full of mosquitoes, you can hire a lot of men to swat at them with fly swatters. Or you can wipe out the mosquitoes with DDT. I like the latter method. Hit the real criminals, Russia, before they hit us."

Iran's former Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who is appealing a sentence of three years in solitary for high treason, broke a two-day "fast unto death" (which had been alleviated by smuggled cookies, chocolates and vitamin pills). With his fast Mossy intended to protest against the appeals court, which had failed to admit enough spectators to suit him, and Teheran's press, which chose not to publish his lachrymose appeal in full. As soon as more people were admitted to the court, he began bolting boardinghouse helpings of boiled chicken, rice and vegetables.

Mississippi's late Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, who won elections but outraged most of his senatorial colleagues with his white-supremacy diatribes, was honored by a lifesize bronze statue in the state capitol at Jackson. Only other Southern politico ever so honored by Mississippi: Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Other Mississippi statesmen have rated no more than oil portraits.

Chicago's Roman Catholic Bishop Bernard J. Shell, who last fortnight said "phooey" to Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and called him "a city slicker from Appleton," was chosen for an award of merit from the Chicago Central Lions Club. A previous award winner (in 1950): Joe McCarthy.

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