Four horsemen of World War II met in Manhattan at the first annual dinner of the Football Hall of Fame. Stepping out of one campaign into memories of others, Old Halfback Ike Eisenhower posed beforehand with Generals Douglas MacArthur, Omar Bradley and Lucius Clay. The President enjoyed himself hugely, beamingly referred to MacArthur as "my chief," received a gold medal for "a lifetime of devotion to American intercollegiate football," rocked so with laughter at the khaki, G.I. jokes of Hoosier Comedian Herb Shriner that a newsman muttered: "I didn't think the Republicans were so alarmed over the Indiana vote." But most of all, Ike liked being in the presence of the massive greats of the game, many of whom were still piling gain on steady gain. He was visibly moved by the honor of being presented to such old Hall of Famers* as Elmer Layden, Don Hutson, Otto Graham and Alex Wojciechowicz, center magnilith of Fordham's Seven Blocks of Granite.

"Everybody wants me to play another dotty leftenant colonel," said Alec Guinness, alluding--in an interview with syndicated Nightscrawler Earl Wilson--to his Academy Award-winning interpretation of Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. "The moneybags always say, 'Let's make another picture exactly like the last one'--and they lose their shirts. Now we're in the middle of the horror cycle. I hope they all do lose their shirts."

Noodle shops throve on the celebration. Bunting and streamers festooned Taipei. And to avoid the well-wishing crush, Nationalist China's-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek went off to his Sun Moon Lake retreat, passed a quiet 72nd birthday.

Cleveland Industrialist (steel, rubber, paint) Cyrus Eaton called his talk "A Capitalist Looks at the Commissars" and his audience--a National Press Club luncheon in Washington--sat popeyed at what they heard. On his recent trip to Russia, Eaton was so impressed with Soviet good will and "dedication to work," so eager to believe in a Khrushchev who had offered him palmolive-branch assurances ("He wants to make peace with us. He wants to get along . . ."), that he pooh-poohed the Hungarian suppression as not the Russians' fault at all and added that "the Hungarian issue is a phony one." With that, a contagious snarl spread through his audience; but no one could really take the old man too seriously. Said the Washington News: "One more trip to Russia and he'll come back believing the Commies invented Lake Erie."

In Manhattan with a new play, Britain's Angry Young Success John Osborne looked back with pleasure on his previous record with U.S. critics. "I've actually been more respected here," said the 28-year-old playwright of The Entertainer and Look Back in Anger. "At home I feel like Julius Caesar going into the Forum . . . In this American century--because it has the American look and the American accent--the cry at home now is that I've sold out to the Yankee dollar."

Voted to British Explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs: the Hubbard Medal, highest award of the National Geographic Society, for his 99-day trans-Antarctica trek covering 2,158 uncharted miles.

Hunting partridge in Maine, U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia Karl Rankin found the woods of Washington County more baffling than Titotalitarian thickets, got lost and was missing overnight, finally picked his own way out.

Perhaps influenced by the recent marriage of his 67-year-old brother Chico, onetime Straight Man Herbert (Zeppo) Marx, 57, now a citrus rancher, had a new fiancee: blonde, 22-year-old Model Diane Davies.

After giving her new musical review a pre-Main Street tryout in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Kodiak and Nome, Mary Martin was off on a miss-nothing swing through the smaller states, including Texas, where she was born. "I haven't been home for about 14 years," she told newsmen in Knoxville. "Last time we drove down, there was a big sign that said. YOU ARE ENTERING PARKER COUNTY, HOME OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST WATERMELONS AND MARY MARTIN. First time I ever got second billing to a watermelon."

Taxiing down the flight deck like a portly TBF torpedo bomber from World War II, Former Naval Person Sir Winston Churchill inspected the crew of the U.S. Sixth Fleet's aircraft carrier Randolph, off Cannes.

*The Hall of Fame elevated nine new members. Three from the new platoon: Harry Stuhldreher, quarterback (1922-24) among the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, longtime coach (at Villanova and Wisconsin), now assistant vice president in charge of industrial relations of U.S. Steel; Harry Kipke, Michigan '23, halfback and missile-toed punter, nine-year Michigan head coach who won four Big Ten titles and one national championship, now president of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Chicago; and the late Thomas Albert Dwight ("Tad") Jones, Yale player, Yale head coach (1916, 1920-27) and Yale bulldog who once told his team in a pre-game address: "Gentlemen, you are about to play football for Yale against Harvard. Never in your lives will you do anything so important."

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