In Rome a swell-stacked bundle of social realism named Gina Lollobrigida, 33, was giving Soviet Artist Ilya Glazunov, 32, some brand-new perspectives. "An extraordinary beauty.'' sighed Glazunov, the man who created a Moscow sensation a few years back by exhibiting a nude study of his wife. He first sketched Gina during the 1961 Moscow Film Festival, and finally, more than a year later, she wangled permission for him to come to Italy and limn a life-sized portrait. But, alas, no nudity. "Youth and spring.'' said the portraitist, "this is what I'll have to show through her pink formal dress."

As Congress moved toward bestowing honorary U.S. citizenship on Sir Winston Churchill, someone decided that it was time to repatriate Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Though pardoned under a post-Civil War proclamation by President Andrew Johnson, Lee was, in effect, a second-class citizen, excluded by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution (passed in 1868) from holding any public office, civil or military. Now Freshman Representative James H. Quillen, a Tennessee Republican, has introduced a House bill posthumously restoring full rights to the Southern hero in recognition of his "courage and integrity.''

Whatever happens to Joan Crawford, 45. there seemed to be no room in her future for Pepsi on the Rocks. In Philadelphia with Adopted Daughter Cindy to accept an award from the Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women, the veteran screen star, widow of Pepsi Cola Chairman Alfred M. Steele and herself a board member, pooh-poohed those rumors that she might play First Lady to New York's dashing, divorced Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Highly unlikely, said Joan; she has only met Rocky once. Furthermore, "I don't need this publicity, and I'm sure he doesn't. How can you be engaged to a man who's never asked you for a date?"

The enameled gentry of Palm Beach, buffed to a high gloss for opening nights at the swank Royal Poinciana Playhouse, struck Musical Conductor Fred Waring, 62, as nothing more than a bunch of well-heeled Beachniks. "The biggest, overdressed, overstuffed snobs I've ever seen," said Waring, closing a one-week Playhouse stand con brio. "They leave early, and are past masters in the art of rudeness."

''Little Ingo," they call him, while Proud Father and former Heavyweight Champ Ingemar Johansson, 30, says of his three-week-old son: "The finest boy I ever saw. Look at his fists; he sure got them from me." Will the tyke go into the ring? "I wouldn't try to stop him." declared Ingemar in Stockholm. Of course, he would have to be christened first, on Easter Sunday, but Jens Patrik Johansson already looked like a comer.

Sunburned and smiling. Queen Elizabeth arrived at the port of Darwin in Australia's remote Northern Territory, clearly enjoyed an easygoing interlude in her Commonwealth tour Down Under. At a luncheon aboard the royal yacht Britannia, Elizabeth and Philip entertained 20 guests, among them a full-blooded aboriginal from the local Rights Council, who departed happily with his souvenir menu but wanted to know just one thing: "What was that stuff that looked like water but didn't taste like it?'' That stuff, someone explained, was a martini.

That winsome Miss America of 1961, Nancy Anne Fleming, 20, became Mrs. William Johnson at a formal ceremony in East Lansing, where both are students at Michigan State. With members of the press barred from the chapel, much-photographed Nancy seemed to be putting all that behind her.,but even the photographers stopped griping when she emerged, radiant, on the arm of her groom.

Ill lay: Lord Home, 59, British Foreign Secretary, downed by gastric flu, canceling all engagements prior to scheduled departure for Japan, at his London home; Indonesia's President Achmed Sukarno, 62, "maintaining routine vigilance'' after treatment of kidney ailment by specialists from Peking, in Djakarta; Burt Lancaster, 49, 1963 Oscar nominee, with infectious hepatitis, at home in Hollywood; Edward J. ("Knocko") McCormack, 69, freewheeling Boston Democratic leader and brother of House Speaker John W. McCormack, recuperating from cancer surgery, at Veterans' Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Mass.

A silent spring crept over London, right into the House of Lords, where they were debating the dangers of pesticides and toxic chemicals. In the U.S., declared Lord Douglas of Barloch, practically every meal contained some DDT. Labor Peer Lord Edward Shackleton, 51, son of famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, couldn't have agreed more. Why, there was a cannibal in Polynesia, said he, "who no longer allows his tribe to eat Americans. Their fat is contaminated. We have about two parts per million of DDT in our bodies, Americans about eleven parts per million." His Lordship's conclusion: "We are rather more edible."

To the bedside of Princess, Michiko, 28, in the Imperial Household/Hospital came Japanese Crown Prince Akihito, 29, bearing a potted vermilion orchid, her favorite flower. The occasion was not a happy one. For reasons of health, said Palace spokesmen, "at signs of impending miscarriage," the Princess had been surgically aborted by her physicians.

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