People: Nov. 27, 1964

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At a dinner in Manhattan, the National Institute of Social Sciences honored Secretary of State Dean Rusk, 55, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 66, A. T. & T. Chairman Frederick Kappel, 62, and that noted social scientist, Bob Hope, 61. Cracked Hope, as he accepted his award (for his "contribution to the nation's values"), "I thought this should go to Cassius Clay—for his great medical discovery, the first man to get a hernia through talking." Hope had his doubts about Kappel: "I don't see how you can give a humanitarian award to a man who had anything to do with digit dialing." But he felt Senator Smith had made a wonderful try for the presidency: "She didn't know Johnson was going to be the nominee for both parties." Bob also swore that "Rusk said to me, 'You might as well go to Viet Nam —we've tried everything else.' '

He set a new style in Government investigating techniques as the late Senator Joe McCarthy's boy. He set a new high in settlements this summer, winning $1,500 weekly for the estranged wife of Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. Last week, aboard a night jet from New York to Paris, Manhattan Lawyer Roy Cohn, 37, set a new high style by emerging from the washroom to walk the length of the plane in canary-yellow silk pajamas and chat with a friend in the back. Said a Pan Am stewardess: "I've never seen that before."

So completely has she dropped out of the spotlight that even the New York Daily News photographer didn't put name and face together. "Are you any relation to the Governor?" he asked, and was somewhat shaken when she replied, "I'm his former wife." But Philadelphia's Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, 57, was class long before she married Nelson (indeed, as one Main Line matron put it at the time: "A young New York man is marrying into the Clark family"). And so it was only natural that she should attend a reception given by Manhattan Society Portraitist Jean Denis Maillart and chat with the guest of honor Nicole Alphand, 37, wife of the French ambassador.

Breezing through India, carrot-topped West Wind Shirley Madame, 30, instantly charmed Lhendup Dorji, Premier of Bhutan, into letting her become the 14th American permitted to visit his remote Himalayan kingdom. But before taking off, she spent an evening in Bombay discussing Gandhian philosophy with Indian Actor Dev

Anand, and began spouting a little Hindu philosophy on her own. "I think I must have been an Indian once," she mused, "perhaps in another life," and turned up at Bombay's Jhaveri Bazaar, with jasmine blossoms in her hair, caste mark on forehead, and a blue-and-gold silk sari. "I'm convinced the sari is made for a woman," said Shirley, and how right she was.