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After a stretch in a Parma jail, Italy's serious-minded Humorist Giovanni (The Little World of Don Camilla) Guareschi, sentenced to twelve months for libeling the late Premier Alcide de Gasperi, was sprung conditionally, time off for good behavior. Matter of principle: given a chance to ask for a cut in his sentence last October, Prisoner Guareschi, in no mood for apologies or parole pleas, politely declined the opening, doggedly stuck to his cell.

To spice up the evening appearances of youngish (50) Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich at a plush London nightclub, the resourceful management hit on the idea of dragging in a celebrity at each show to introduce Grandma Marlene. Last week's hit curtain-raiser was Liverpool's burly (208 Ibs.), two-hourglass-figured (50 in., 40 in., 50 in.) Labor M.P Bessie Braddock (TIME, May 9), honorary president (she says) of a professional boxers' association. Arriving from the House of Commons by bus. Bessie togged in her usual drab blue suit, swept past the club's haughty doormen, bounced inside to utter some dock-walloper pleasantries. To some of London's uppercrustiest, amazonian Mrs. Braddock announced: "I intend as a reciprocal arrangement to invite Miss Dietrich along to the House of Commons." Society patrons responded with a hoarse cheer so blatant that Marlene, entering in a bit of gossamer so diaphanous that Britain's press fears to publish photos of it, was scarcely noticed. Later, Battling Bessie and Marlene chatted cozily. With no apologies for her proletarian garb, Bessie said: "I just had time to wash my face."

With a stern eye on juvenile delinquency and a strong hope of raising the physical standards of U.S. youth, a golfer named Dwight Eisenhower invited 32 sports leaders to come to the White House this week and help him plan how to lure more young Americans into competitive sports. Among those on the guest list: Golfer Bobby Jones, former Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, Army Football Coach Earl Blaik, Tennistar Tony Trabert, Track Stars Mal Whitfield and Wes Santee, Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, National Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Champion Barbara Romack, Navy Football Coach Eddie Erdelatz, U.S. Open Golf Champion Jack Fleck, onetime U.S. Sculling Champion John B. Kelly (father of Oscar-winning Cinemactress Grace Kelly).

After nearly nine years of ostensibly happy though businesslike marriage Publisher (Look) Gardner Cowles, 52, and his editor (Flair) wife, ex-Adwoman Fleur Fenton Cowles, surprised even their intimates by agreeing to "a very amiable, friendly separation ... no immediate plans for divorce." A girl wonder at 16 (when she landed a $100-a-week advertising job), Fleur recently signed a new three-year contract to stay on as associate editor of Look, will also remain as a director of Cowles Magazines, Inc.

At the Philippine town of San Luis, globe-trotting U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, on his way to law lectures in India and later a tour of the U.S.S.R., bustled through a government resettlement project for surrendered Communist Huk rebels, paused in his picture-snapping to shake hands with the mother of Luis Taruc, onetime Huk boss now serving a twelve-year sentence. On hand with lei-draped Travelogist Douglas were Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Homer Ferguson, former Republican Senator from Michigan, who wore the comfortable type of sport clothing that is popular dress in the islands.

Some four months before he died last year, Hungarian-born Movie Producer Gabriel (Pygmalion, Major Barbara) Pascal, 60, addressed a hand-written will to his great and good friend, Zaya Kingman-Speelman, wealthy and exotic Irish-Chinese widow of a Dutch banker, named her his sole heiress. Last week New York's Court of Appeals held that the 19-word scrawl was valid, ruled out contesting claims of Pascal's brother and second wife. Big plum in Pascal's estate: sole movie rights to six plays of George Bernard Shaw--properties which could easily gross millions of dollars in film versions.

In Sweden's Amateur Grand Prix at Malmo, two of Europe's most glamorous gentlemen jockeys, Prince Aly Khan and R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, leading contender for the hand of Britain's Princess Margaret, thundered down the home stretch in the van of a field of 18 riders. The winner: Jockey Townsend whose borrowed stallion copped the event by two lengths, took top money of $300 In fourth place (six lengths and a nose behind Townsend): Aly Khan, whose mountainous fortune was swollen by a $100 bagatelle. The prince sportingly said: "I'm fully satisfied."

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