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With plenty of works in progress but no finished manuscript under his arm, Novelist Ernest Hemingway arrived incognito with wife Mary at a midtown Manhattan hotel for a quiet holiday far from his Cuban finca. Meanwhile, two short stories, the first new Hemingway fiction to be published since The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, were being put to bed for the centennial issue of the Atlantic, which will be out at the end of October. Apparently stemming from the experience Hemingway underwent when he was temporarily blinded after his plane crash in Africa in 1954, the stories are paired under the title Two Tales of Darkness.

Following the long antarctic night, the sun rose over the U.S. base at the South Pole last week, and Polar Explorer Paul Siple (TIME cover, Dec. 31, 1956) led 17 scientists and servicemen into the open for the reveille that comes there technically only once every six months. With the temperature at a numbing --88DEG and an 18-knot wind blowing across the polar wastes, the ceremonial hoisting of Old Glory turned out to be about the most frenzied since the famed planting of the flag under fire at Iwo Jima.

In seclusion since the death last January of Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart, his widow, Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, was stepping out with an old family friend, Cinemactor Frank Sinatra. Lauren was recently draped on Frankie's arm for the Las Vegas premiere of his new movie The Joker Is Wild, last week went along with him to a closed-circuit telecast of the Sugar Ray Robinson-Carmen Basilio fight in a Hollywood theater from which they emerged looking as happy as if they had bet on Winner Basilio. But though Hollywood gossips buzzed, both Lauren and Frankie denied a wedding is in the wind.

Describing the Russian people as "wonderful," Globetrotter Eleanor Roosevelt, 72, climaxed her first trip to the Soviet Union by interviewing Communist Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev for almost three hours at his summer villa on the Black Sea near Yalta. "War is unthinkable," Khrushchev told Mrs. Roosevelt, who called the hard-drinking, explosive Soviet leader "a cordial, simple, outspoken man who got angry at certain spots and emphasized the things he believed." But when Khrushchev accused her of hating Communists, Mrs. Roosevelt quickly replied: "Oh no, I don't. I don't hate anybody. I don't believe in Communism as an ideological way of life."

Wearing a hurt look and sounding indignant, pugnacious Joe Curran, 55, president of the National Maritime Union, sued acid-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler for $550,000, claiming that a union leader's reputation is damaged when he is characterized as a "racketeer," "Communist," or "bum."

While stumping his home state of California, sniffing the gubernatorial air, and "reporting to the people" about Congress, Senate Minority Leader William F. Knowland, 49, stepped into an F-100F Super Sabre jet at Los Angeles International Airport for an invigorating supersonic flight, whizzed along over the Southern California desert at more than 1,000 m.p.h. to break the sound barrier, smilingly received a certificate of membership in the exclusive "Mach Buster's Club." Scheduled for this week: a Sacramento press conference at which every Californian from Governor Goodwin Knight to MGM's Leo the Lion expects him to announce his candidacy for governor.

In the protocol-minded, precedence-conscious nation's capital, there appeared the book of the year, the annual Social List of Washington, which ineluctably determines how high or low high-living Washington partygoers will eat at their friends' dinner tables. The most spectacular jump toward the head of the table was made by Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President, who bypassed 48 governors, 96 Senators and two men of Cabinet rank, to land just below the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. House Speaker Sam Rayburn will also eat higher up on the festive board this year, jumping over foreign ambassadors and widows of former Presidents, to sit, a Texas Democrat, just below former Presidents. Reason: the speaker of the House is second in succession to the presidency. Lower at the table this year: Harold E. Stassen, the President's special assistant for disarmament.

As a student at Oxford, Quintin McGarel Hogg was enraged when his father accepted a peerage, which he foresaw would banish him into the "political ghetto'' of the House of Lords and prevent him from becoming Prime Minister (TIME, Sept. 30). Now Viscount Hailsham, Lord President of the Council, chairman of the Conservative Party and a remorseless Tory, Hogg was asked on a BBC show if he, though a member of the House of Lords, could hope to become Prime Minister. "Nobody but a fool," his lordship blurted, "would want to be Prime Minister."

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