People: Jul. 31, 1964

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Springtime, and lunch at a restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne—who could resist the combination? Certainly not Maria Meneghini Callas, 40, or maybe it was Metropolitan Opera Manager Rudolf Bing, 62, who proved only human after all. At any rate, the two kissed and made up in Paris in June, and La Divina will return to the Met for Tosca next year, her first New York appearance since Bing fired her for breaking an engagement in 1958.

It was a fine day for the races, though most folks his age might prefer that old rocking chair, and so Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, who retired as a trainer last year, bustled off to New Jersey's Monmouth Park to hear the crowd roar "Happy Birthday" and share his 90th cake with 20 great-grandchildren. "It's a lucky thing I had the horse bug," confided the man who trained Gallant Fox and Omaha, Nashua and Bold Ruler, recalling the days when his mother-in-law wanted him to work as a streetcar conductor. "I was sending home more money from the tracks than I could have made on the trolley, but there's not another damn thing I could have done."

Sweetness and light were her stock in trade as Walt Disney's Pollyanna, but now that she's turned 18, Britain's Hayley Mills has become sweet lightning. Rising like the seasoned trouper she is from a 103° sickbed to prance in the chorus line at a London benefit, the "glad" girl shook a dazzling pair of legs and uncorked some un-Disneyfied bumps and grinds. In a separate bit, she vanished into a box as a magician's assistant, but demonstrated conclusively that she is one child star who won't need to pull a disappearing act when she gets to be 21.

To paraphrase the grammar school boff, what are they going to eat in the House of Lords? They won't be able to eat the Sandwiches there any more, because the tenth earl and great-great-great-great-grandnephew of the 18th century titleholder who invented layered lunch has renounced his lordship, like other Tory leaders. He will seek election to the House of Commons as just plain Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu, 58.

They say that the recipe for a Hungarian omelet begins, "First, you steal a dozen eggs," and when Marlene Dietrich came on to sing at the Cannes Palm Beach Casino, the world's most professional Hungarian was sitting at a ringside table with her photographer. The world's sexiest sexagenarian had on a skintight, flesh-colored gown so diaphanous that her contract forbade pictures during the performance, but as Zsa Zsa Gabor told it, "My cameraman was so overcome by Marlene's beauty that he asked if I thought she would mind being photographed. I told him to carry on." After the show, when it developed that Marlene did mind, Zsa Zsa was forced to yield the film. "All right, we'll give it to you," ran her stormy response. "What do you think he could do with it? He couldn't sell it for a pengö." Nem?