Winging into London to promote a Soviet film festival, auburn-haired Soviet Cinemactress Natalya Fateyeva, 25, speedily shaped up (36-25-37) as the most popular Russian export since caviar. Ounce for ounce, it also developed, she was in the same price league. Offered a small role in Paramount's production of Moll Flanders, she allowed as how she was "very flattered." However, she is already earning $75,000 a year, and "for $6 a week I get a luxury flat in Moscow and a beautiful country cottage. I have my car, my three fur coats, and I can travel the world whenever I want. The only thing that would attract me to Hollywood," she added demurely, hitching up her skirt for photographers like any Western starlet, "would be a really interesting part."
Five-star admirals don't even necessarily fade away. Presiding over the 25th annual pistol match between San Francisco's Olympic Club and the U.S. Naval Air Station at Alameda, retired Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, 79, World War II commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, took a Colt .45 automatic in hand to fire off an "honorary" clip of five at 25 yds. Rooty-toot-toot, he scored three bull's-eyes, two near-misses, promptly tucked the target under his arm to take home, "because my wife wouldn't believe it if I just told her." Why should she? Though he had a pistol range outside his Honolulu office for recreation during the war, he hasn't laid a finger on a gun for the past two years.
As they cleaned the trash from the cellars of the Philips record-company offices in Paris, workmen found a battered box containing 45 master records (78s), pressed between 1940 and 1942 by Chanteuse Edith Piaf, who died a year ago at 47. Made in her prime, before illness and alcohol dulled her voice, the records include melodies, such as Fais-Moi Valser and Le Vagabond, that "the Sparrow" made famous onstage but was miracle," never said a known to Philips have cut. executive. "It's "We a don't know how they got there. Perhaps a technician had to dump them in the Occupation. Perhaps they were even considered rejects." Disdaining his rightful line in the Social Register, he raised black Angus cattle on his 350-acre Virginia estate, where he was known to the horsy set for the tack shop he ran as a hobby.
And so quietly did he die of a liver ailment at the age of 24 in Manhattan on Oct. 4 that not a line made the news columns. But when the will of Robert Vanderpoel Clark Jr. was probated last week, it showed an estate of $26,554,200, held principally in trusts and be queathed equally to his mother and wife of 2 1/2 years. Clark was a great-grand son of Singer Manufacturing Founder Alfred Corning Clark, and he inherited the bulk of his fortune when his great-uncle died last February.
Possibly, in Alamo, Calif, (pop. 2,300), Lawyer George Finn didn't watch the World Series on TV. When he signed a lease for a client who was renting a home to St. Louis Cardinal Curt Flood, 26, it came as a shock to Finn that Flood was a Negro. Such a shock, in fact, that he snatched the key, threatening to shoot Flood if he took possession. With the aid of a locksmith, Flood moved in anyway, with his wife Beverly, 25, and their four children, to be greeted with cheers by practically every family on the block, and a home-cooked meal that moved Beverly to tears. "Bless you all," beamed Flood.
"We hope to neighborhood." add Murmured something one to of your the neighbors, Mrs. Dan Sweeney, "My kids hope he'll teach them to play baseball." Three months out of jail, where he served four years for inciting a 1960 leftist riot, Mexican Artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, 67, was at work on a mural at Chapultepec Castle. His assistant, distrusting the steel framework of the 15-ft.-high scaffold Siqueiros was using, substituted a wooden plank for one of the metal bases. Five minutes later--crash! Siqueiros is now at his Mexico City home with two broken vertebrae, in some scaffolding of his own. But he has company; his wife slipped in a store and broke her wrist.
Income earned by serving as "consultant" for Sunrise at Campobello, the Broadway drama about his father: $18,615.21. Tax deduction, claiming that the play was an "invasion of privacy": $18,615.21. So filed Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 50, onetime Congressman, now Under Secretary of Commerce, on Form 1040 for 1958.
But the U.S. tax court in Washington disallowed his claim, deducing from its reading of the play that "portrayal of petitioner"--he was "portrayed" for a few moments as a child of seven--"certainly did not effect any wanton appropriation of petitioner's name or personality." Tax due: $12,647.
April in Paris might not be the same without the late Elsa Maxwell, who founded the annual charity ball in New York 13 years ago, and just to be a little different, ended up scheduling it for October. But 1,300 Manhattan socialites, who paid $150 a ticket, made it the kind of blast Elsa would have liked. The theme was Une Nuit sur la Cote d'Azur, in honor of the old girl's favorite playground, and Cannes' Whisky `a GoGo discotheque was faithfully reproduced while French-born Decorations Chairwoman Jeanine Levitt looked like an ondine from the Riviera in a sapphire-studded Griffe and a peacock blue wig.
The Foot race is escalating in Britain. Outspoken Newsman Michael Foot, 51, of the weekly London Tribune, is stepping up in Westminster as a Labor party M. P., while his brother Dingle, 59, the new government's Solicitor General, will soon be knighted and hang out his shingle as Sir Dingle. Meanwhile the left Foots' forthright brother, Sir Hugh Foot, 57, sometime colonial governor and Britain's U.N. delegate, is about to be made a lord, and must decide what name to take after it. am afraid," says he, "that use of 'the Baron Foot' might lead to references to 'the dead hand,' " and so he will reappear in the peerage as Baron Caradon of St. Cleer.
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