Uncle Tony isn't married to Aunt Meg any more, but Princess Anne still rang him up to do some snaps. So Lord Snowdon traveled to the 1,200-acre Gloucestershire estate where Anne lives with Husband Mark Phillips. The resulting portraits of the Phillipses and their son Peter so pleased Anne that she picked 20 poses for her official 28th-birthday portraits. Lord Snowdon does not believe in having a readily identifiable technique, because, he says, "that would limit me to a recognizable style." Recognizable subjects, however, are obviously desirable.

One set off in a $42,000 shark cage while the other quietly plunged into the sea with little protection. But neither Diana Nyad, 28, nor Stella Taylor, 46, completed her marathon swim last week. Nyad was thwarted in her Cuba-to-Key West swim by 5-ft. to 8-ft. waves and painful jellyfish stings. As for Taylor, she headed off for Florida from the Bahamas, but was forced to stop because of strong currents. Said she: "It was a great time."

It was on Jan. 30, 1976, that Swedish police grabbed Film Director Ingmar Bergman out of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater to interrogate him about his taxes. Last week, after a victory in the tax courts, Bergman was back directing in the same theater. Earlier, he had celebrated his 60th-birth-day party on the Baltic island of Faro. On hand were his eight children (by four wives plus Liv Ullmann), along with the four children of his fifth wife Ingrid. Bergman gave a smile of a summer night when Linn, his daughter by Ullmann, presented him with a crown of wildflowers.

Little Betty Perske from Brooklyn grew up into Lauren Bacall, long-legged, throaty-voiced actress and wife of Humphrey Bogart and Jason Robards. Soon readers will learn "the whole story," as she puts it, in her first book, Lauren Bacall By Myself, to be published in January. Her contract with Knopf "came along at a time in my life when I didn't know what I was going to do," says Bacall, 53. The autobiography, which describes her marriages and her affair with Frank Sinatra, will "tell much more about me than I ever thought people should know," says Bacall. But even if her book takes off, Bacall feels that her real calling is on Broadway. "The stage has been welcoming to me," she says. "I feel I belong."

On the Record

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., explaining why, in his book about Alabama Judge Frank Johnson Jr., he did not mention the suicide of Johnson's son: "I'd seen what the press made of things that had happened to my family. I don't think I can express how deep a hurt that is."

Studs Terkel, author of the "oral history" Working: "The most rewarding moment comes when a stranger writes and says, 'I have read Working and now I'll never talk rudely to a waitress again.' "

Raymond Barre, France's Premier, reflecting on his countrymen: "They are often irritating and even exasperating, but without the French there would be no Europe. What is most striking is that the French have a vision, a certain idea about Europe."

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