Established under the will of the late Bacteriologist William A. Hinton, the first Negro professor at Harvard University: a scholarship fund of nearly $75,000 to be named in honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, in recognition of Ike's accomplishments "toward the acceptance of the principle of equal opportunity for all." Responded Eisenhower, when he heard of the fund:; "I cannot recall having been given a personal distinction that has touched me more deeply."

"Even the Poles have been wallowing in God's Little Acre and Tobacco Road" said Novelist Erskine Caldwell, 58, on his way to tour Warsaw and collect some 100,000 zlotys (about $4,200) in royalties, which he must spend in Poland. While his books on the seamy side of Southern life have sold 62 million copies (mostly in paperbacks) around the world, and are bestsellers in Communist countries, Caldwell mused sadly on the low state of his reputation at home. "I'm not read very much in the South," he said, "because they are very touchy about what they regard as unkind criticism. And I'm not thought much of in the North either." But he had no apologies for his popularity abroad. "Russians and Europeans get a less erroneous image of America from my books than they do from American films about a mink-penthouse-Cadillac society."

Going on sale this week: a 4¢ commemorative postage stamp honoring the late Dag Hammarslcjold.

What does the well-dressed skater wear over her leotard this year? Leopard, of course, but not any old spotted cat. On the outdoor skating rink of Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza, raven-haired Model Diane Conlon, 17, fetchingly demonstrated a pale, shaggy snow leopard from the icy reaches of Nepal. And for almost any girl, whether she can skate or not, Diane's pretty partners, modeling for the kick-off campaign of New York's United Hospital Fund, showed that Cambodian tiger, white mink and red nutria also cut the ice.

All mention of his exwife, Mary Todhunter Clark, was already deleted from the official history of the state's executive mansion. Now New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 54, blue-penciled the 21-word last paragraph from his official biography in the revised edition of the Legislative Manual and New York Red Book, thereby eliminating all reference to the fact that he was ever married, had five children, and is a grandfather eight times over.

Atop a windswept hill overlooking the Israeli capital of Jerusalem. Canadian Distiller Samuel Bronfman, 71, president of Seagram's Ltd., laid the cornerstone for an archaeological and Biblical museum that will bear his name. The museum was started with a donation of $1,000,000 from Bronfman's two sons and two daughters, who gave the money as a 70th birthday gift to their father. As an orchestra played O Canada, Israel's doughty Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, 76, dedicated the building with a speech in Hebrew, then lapsed into English. "I want to tell Mr. Bronfman," said Ben-Gurion, "that with all his money--I don't know how much he has but it's certainly more than I have--he cannot get a real personal share in Israel unless and until one of his children or grandchildren lives permanently in this country." Bronfman took the old Zionist's lefthanded thank you with good grace. Later his wife Saidye pulled Ben-Gurion aside to tell him that another grandchild was on the way. "Maybe," she said, "that one will settle here."

Every year the officials at sedate old Wimbledon endured more gaudy breeches of decorum. Shapely Tennis Player Karol Fageros, 28, took the gallery's eye off her serve with a pair of 24-carat gold-cloth panties that were later auctioned off for $70. Then Southern Belle Laura Lou Kunnen, 29, loyally stitched a Confederate flag to her undies. The living end was Brazil's Maria Bueno, 22, the 1959 and 1960 champion, who scandalized the crowd at this year's championships with a display of "shocking pink" briefs worn under a flapping "twist dress." No more, decreed the directors. From now on, it is "a condition of entry that all players will wear whites."

With her husband Prince Rainier, 39, her two children, three servants (one nanny), and a grey poodle named Gamma, Princess Grace of Monaco slipped quietly back into Paris. Come what may, Grace was determined to finish a shopping spree disrupted earlier this month when she had to rush home with the prince to man the ramparts in Monaco's tax squabble with French President Charles de Gaulle. A photographer caught the royal family arriving at the railway station, but then they hurried away to the privacy of their Right Bank apartment, and Grace was seen after that only in a few haute couture salons.

"Can you love me in my every humour? Or would you prefer to think of me as always dignified?" wrote Woodrow Wilson to his first wife, Ellen Louise Axson, during their courtship. "I am afraid it would kill me," he added, "to be always thoughtful, sensible, dignified and decorous." But until a collection of 1,458 love letters to "Miss Ellie Lou" was presented to Princeton University by the couple's youngest daughter, Mrs. Eleanor McAdoo, 72, the world's image of Wilson was just that. Covering a span of 31 years, from their first meeting until Mrs. Wilson's death from Bright's disease in the White House in 1914, the letters show a sentimental side of the man. In a letter shortly before Mrs. Wilson died, the President wrote to his vacationing wife: "Do you realize that I have been alone (what I consider alone) in this old mansion for just about half the time I have been President? . . . My heart is too full to go on--full to overflowing with love for you all, but particularly for the sweetest wife in the world." It was signed: "Your own Woodrow."

Ever since Marilyn Monroe was buried last August, a black vase at the crypt in Hollywood's Westwood Memorial Park has been filled with fresh red roses. The cemetery's mortician finally identified the sender. He was Marilyn's second husband, Joe DiMaggio, 47, who requested simply: "Twice a week--forever."

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