It just goes to show that it takes more than some horrid divorce-court testimony by ex-Wife Dyan Cannon to dim the ardor of Gary Grant's devoted legions. There he was, three weeks after that nasty automobile crackup, bounding out of a Queens, New York, hospital looking nowhere near his 64 years and flashing that famous grin as several hundred shrieking females gathered to wish him well. "I feel great," said Gary, and proved it by planting a kiss on the cheek of Sister Thomas Francis, executive director of the hospital. "Oh, my," said Sister Francis, blushing. "Isn't that nice. Maybe he respects age."

She hadn't thought that she was involved in international high finance, yet when Figure Skater Peggy Fleming, 19, met a smiling President Johnson in the White House Rose Garden, he hailed her as "someone who has helped us with the gold drain." Peggy had, indeed, as the only American to bring home an Olympic gold medal from Grenoble. And now a properly appreciative L.B.J. added a decoration of his own, reaching up to pluck a magnolia blossom from a tree and pinning it on Peggy's dress.

The jet jump from Maharishi'ing around on the banks of the Ganges to facing Frankie at the Fontainebleau, to grooving with Liz and Dick on the banks of the Thames would be quite an adjustment for anybody. Added to that was the pressure of starting work on her second major film role in Secret Ceremony. So Mia Farrow, 23, had a problem. It got out of hand after Mia, in her mini mini, danced until the wee hours at a Burton party at London's Dorchester Hotel, then turned up absent from the scene next morning. After a couple of days, the film makers dispatched an emissary to a private psychiatric clinic in Middlesex. No Mia, and a clinic spokesman refused to say whether she had been there or even what for. Eventually she turned up, saying that she had merely been home with a tummy ache.

Ill lay: Senator Everett Dirksen, 72, in Walter Reed Hospital with severe bruises after he fell from his dining room table while attempting to replace a light bulb; Patrick Lyndon Nugent, nine months, running a fever of 104DEG, high enough to bring a doctor to the White House; Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, 60, reportedly ill with pneumonia, though rumors buzz in Karachi that he has suffered a stroke; Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace, 41, in St. Margaret's Hospital in Montgomery after an operation for an abdominal infection, having already undergone surgery for cancer three times in the past two years.

Italy's Nino Benvenuti, 29, figured to stay out of scraps for a while after polishing off Emile Griffith last month to recapture the world middleweight title. Then along came a wicked one-two punch smack in la panda. Through her lawyers, Nadia Bertorello, 20, blonde, bosomy, and a model back home in Bologna, charged that 1) Nino is the fiero padre of the baby she expects in August, and 2) Nino's manager, Bruno Amaduzzi, had foisted a cover-up by snipping out of her passport the visa proving that she had traveled to the U.S. with Nino last October. "I am no longer interested in Nino as a man," she said, "only as the one who should guarantee some future for our child." Nino denied the paternity, if not the relationship. Said his wife Giuliana, when asked if she could forgive his escapade: "An escapade, yes--a serious affair, no."

The children's crusade for Senator Eugene McCarthy marches on. Ann Hart, 20, daughter of Michigan's Senator Philip, started it all, and now the ranks are swelling with dozens of notable offspring. Latest to join the youthful fold: Edmund G. Brown Jr., 29, son of California's former Governor Pat; William Yorty, 21, son of Los Angeles' Mayor Sam; James Roosevelt Jr., F.D.R.'s grandson; Harold Ickes Jr., 28, son of the New Dealer; Randy Paar, 17, Jack's daughter; Erica Heller, teen-age daughter of Novelist Joseph; Hal Wiley, grandson of Wisconsin's late Senator Alexander; Jamie Bernstein, 15, daughter of the New York Philharmonic's Leonard; and Joshua Leinsdorf, 22, son of the Boston Symphony's conductor Erich.

Stagehands hustled up coffee and a soft chair, directors fell over one another congratulating him on his poise, even actors split their sides yukking it up at his every quip. And why not? For the bashful newcomer on the movie set was that grizzled czar of the gridiron, peerless coach of the National Football League's champion Green Bay Packers, Vince Lombard!, 54, on hand for a cameo appearance in the United Artists movie version of George Plimpton's Paper Lion. Vinnie, as he was called by the movie folk, breezed through his scene with Actor Alan Alda, who plays Plimpton, and proved that there is a good bit of ham left in the old Packer. The script called for him to turn down Plimpton's request to try out for the Packers with a curt "No." But Lombardi had a different idea. "Have you tried the A.F.L.?" he asked sweetly.

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