People: May 24, 1963

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In an Old World gesture toward royalty, Manhattan's Regency Hotel ordered a custom-sewn flag of Monaco. Then arrived Princess Grace, 33, and Prince Rainier, 39, and suddenly everything went All-American. The Grimaldis wanted TV—and five sets were sent up, one for each room. Their usual breakfast order was ham 'n' eggs, with oatmeal for the children (Caroline, 6, and Albert, 5). When supplies ran short, Princess Grace herself would traipse off to a nearby grocery. The night she attended a posh art show, Daddy went to the circus—and the youngsters stayed home nursing colds.

Jotting in London's Books and Bookmen on "How to Write a Thriller," Ian Fleming, 54, James Bond's creator and Jack Kennedy's favorite author, says unashamedly that he does it for pleasure and money. His thrillers are aimed "somewhere between the solar plexus and, well, the upper thigh. They are written for warm-blooded heterosexuals. I have no message for suffering humanity and, though I was bullied at school and lost my virginity like so many of us used to in the old days, I have never been tempted to foist these harrowing personal experiences on the public."

He looks like an English nobleman stalking an elk. His mustache would shame a venerable walrus. He is Theodore Sizer, 71, Professor emeritus of the history of art at Yale, a Harvard graduate ('15) and a 20th century go-getter who gets up and goes in unmistakable 18th century style. Since his 1957 retirement from teaching, "Tubby" Sizer has continued to design the banners and coats-of-arms for Yale's schools and colleges, had previously been cited for "all manner of felicitous embellishment," and last week was officially named Pursuivant of Arms, which Yale proudly proclaims as the first heraldic post created in an American university.

Right at home in Goldwater country, Connecticut's Conservative Editor William F. Buckley, 37, mounted the rostrum at Arizona State University. Among the subjects viewed from his lofty pique were pacifism, "liberal mythology," and summitry. "There is nothing wrong with summit conferences," said he. "What's wrong is sending a liberal to summit conferences." Buckley's suggestion? An Old Guard union leader. "If we sent John L. Lewis, for example, he would come back with the Ukraine in his hip pocket." "All those parties," noted U.N. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, 63, can be an awful drag on serious-minded diplomats. But since that is the way diplomacy goes, he told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that U.S. delegates in Manhattan need an extra housing allowance to offset entertainment expenses. Whereupon Republican Representative H. R. Gross of Iowa confronted Stevenson with a Satevepost article called "This is the U.N. at Play." One section dealt with "ladies of the corridor, fluffing their hair and painting their mouths" in a vice-ridden Tower of Babble where anything goes. Stevenson balked at the reference to V-girls. "That," he grinned, "is an aspect of the work with which I am not familiar."