People, Nov. 4, 1957

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After ten months of career-dictated separation from her husband, Actress Ingrid Bergman, starring in Tea and Sympathy in Paris, sped to Orly Airport and into the arms of Director Roberto Rossellini, returning from India, where he made some documentary films and some undocumented headlines with exotic Script Girl Sonali Das Gupta. Sonali's husband is now threatening to jettison her. For the same reason, Indian officials once indicated that they believed Rossellini had abused their country's hospitality, if not Sonali's. Did all this ruckus portend a divorce for the Rossellinis? Snorted paunchy Roberto: "Absolute nonsense!" Burbled Ingrid: "Isn't any wife in love with her husband happy to have him home after such a long absence?"

After dining with friends at one of France's best-known groaning boards, Maxim's in Paris, Monaco's Prince Rainier III, still sporting his summer crop of chin whiskers, and Princess Grace, radiantly pregnant, were all abeam. Grace's second child (all Monaco is praying for a boy) is duer in March. Next stopovers for the Grimaldis: London and then New York City.

"Every time Robert Frost comes to town," wrote the New York Times's Washington bureau chief, James ("Scotty") Reston, "the Washington Monument stands up a little straighter." Flinty old (83) Poet Frost proved to Pundit Reston that he is no slacker at punditry himself. Frost welcomes the struggle and decision-making that make life tough—and neither the Russians, nor their satellites (terrestrial or spatial) upset him a bit: "We ought to enjoy a standoff. Let it stand and deepen in meaning. Let's not be hasty about showdowns. Let's be patient and confident with our country." As optimistic as he is individualistic, Robert Frost summed up his poet's-eye view of the U.S.: "I stand here at the window and try to figure out whether American men or women swing their arms more freely. There cannot be much to fear in a country where there are so many right faces going by. I keep asking myself where they all come from, and I keep thinking that maybe God was just making them up new around the next corner."

Accompanying Ike to Manhattan for his speech to medical educators (see MEDICINE), Mamie Eisenhower passed up the banquet for My Fair Lady. Ike's speech finished, he whizzed over to Broadway, slipped into the darkened theater in time to join Mamie for the final 40 minutes. Recognized by few in the audience, Ike and the First Lady left just before the final curtain, were outside being cheered by a crowd when Stage Manager Biff Liff came on stage and wrongly announced their presence inside. Next afternoon, Mamie saw Auntie Mame, dropped backstage at intermission to greet her old friend Rosalind Russell for tea, cookies and "girl talk."

The heir apparent to Norway's throne, Crown Prince Harold, 20, also eventually destined to be the supreme commander of the Norwegian armed forces, rose a notch in his country's army. He was promoted to sergeant.