Paris-Match called it "the photo that scandalizes Spain." Italian Actress Lucia Bose was posed with Son Miguel Dominguin in a picture cropped below bare shoulders that showed them soulfully embracing. The picture allegedly came from Spanish Director Fernando Rey's unfinished movie Truth, in which the pair were said to play an incestuous mother and son. Lucia was quoted as saying "I believe Miguel will be even more irresistible than Luis," referring to her husband, Luis Miguel Dominguin, one of Spain's greatest bullfighters. However, it turned out that the most scandalized person was Lucia herself. Charging hoax, she denied from her Madrid home that she and Miguel had ever even considered appearing in Truth and said the photo was from a family album. Then she announced plans to sue Paris-Match for "malicious untruths."

"Two years ago, this place was a pigsty. Now the patients are eating family style." So saying, Ohio's Governor John J. Gilligan went back to his job: helping Cerebral Palsy Victim Jimmy Long with his exercises at the Orient State Institute near Columbus. Since he took office in 1971, Gilligan has made a special effort to improve the conditions of the hospitals in which the state's 23,000 mentally ill and retarded live. From funds raised by Gilligan's introduction of a state income tax in 1971, $900,000 has gone into a "humanization" program, ensuring patients 24-hour care and more cheerful surroundings. A frequent visitor to Orient State, the Governor chose to celebrate the program's second anniversary a different way. He donned a white coat and walked the wards for a couple of hours as a psychiatric-aide trainee.

When Frank Sinatra, 56, retired his voice from public performance in 1971, he said that every thinking man needs a fallow period. But after a suitable period of lying fallow, the Chairman of the Board woke up one morning and found that he had "been replaced as the nation's singing idol." It was time to begin his comeback career. Following a 1973 White House command performance and a TV special, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back, Sinatra made his first nightclub appearance in three years at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace. Last week, after a standing ovation from an invited audience of 1,300, including James Stewart, Helen Reddy, Rosalind Russell, Daughters Tina and Nancy, ex-Wife Nancy and his mother Dolly, Frank sauntered through a variety of old favorites, from Come Fly with Me to My Way. For the one-week engagement, Sinatra's pay is reported to be more than $200,000, with patrons paying an imperial $30 each for the evening. It was the highest tab ever in Vegas.

Martha Mitchell is being courted assiduously by New York publishers. Her autobiography, written with Journalist Winzola McLendon, will include such tidbits as the fact that Martha as a young girl knew Bebe Rebozo long before President Nixon did. An editor at Doubleday, a serious bidder for the book, described Martha enthusiastically: "Here was this woman, dismissed as a crazy blonde with good legs by those burly Nixon locker-room boys, and by God, she was telling the truth!" Meanwhile, former Vice President Spiro Agnew was encountering resistance in the literary world. Random House turned down his prospective novel: a whodunit about a U.S. Vice President who is manipulated by Chinese Communists.

No hunter is keener than a best-selling novelist on the prowl for a bankable plot. So when Jacqueline Susann said that she had always wanted to write about "women in their prime who lose their husbands by death or divorce," the results were predictable. The current Ladies' Home Journal contains a 15,000-word novelette (Dolores) that reads --well, like art imitating life. Pantherlike Dolores Cortez is widowed when her handsome Irish American husband, U.S. President Jimmy Ryan, is struck down in mid-term by a heart attack. Struggling to make ends meet on $30,000 a year, she finally selects her sister's lover, Baron Erick de Savonne, an aging but agile French tycoon. Dolores nets a $10 million marriage contract--but nothing more. On their wedding night, the Baron leaves his weeping bride alone with her 60-carat diamond ring for the bed of his true love, world-famous Ballerina Ludmilla Rosenko. Susann denies that Dolores is a roman `a clef but adds: "If Jacqueline Onassis sees herself as Dolores, she will admit I made her a warm, sympathetic person."

The two Detroit policemen on their downtown beat were ticketing a man peddling rings on the sidewalk. Then up popped this limey photographer who kept snapping away at them. Asked for identification, the fellow could only produce an out-of-date press card. At headquarters, the suspicious cops satisfied themselves that "Tony Charles Snow-down [sic]" was not the peddler's accomplice. They issued him a temporary press card and prepared to let him go. Then someone did a double take. Hastily, Princess Margaret's husband, Lord Snowdon, was whisked into Police Commissioner Philip G. Tannian's office for a chat and an apology. That was more than Tony got from Mayor Coleman Young. On a short assignment to photograph the crime-ridden city for the London Sunday Times, Snowdon asked for an interview with Young but was told the mayor had "no time."

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