People: Nov. 29, 1963

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Into New Delhi after a 50-day, 4,200-mile "march on wheels" through India came 65 members of the Moral Re-Armament Movement. At their head was Rajmohan Gandhi, 28, grandson of the Mahatma. Only 13 when his grandfather was assassinated, the tall, handsome Indian first felt the pull of M.R.A. while in Edinburgh as a cub reporter on the Scotsman. Since then he has been working for the movement in South America, the U.S., Japan and Europe. "Now I am ready to tackle my own country," says he. And would Mahatma approve? "Very much. There is as great an urge for a moral cleanup in this country as there was a passion in his day for political freedom,"

Queen Elizabeth is. The Duchess of Kent is. Princess Alexandra is. In Britain these days, it's the royal way to be —pregnant. And Princess Margaret, 33? Meg and Hubby Antony Armstrong-Jones, 33, aren't talking. They're just dancing the evenings away at gala balls and such. But public and papers alike have decided that those adoring looks mean that Meg is, too. Ah well, if they keep repeating the rumor for long enough, sooner or later it will be true.

The Social Register it's not, and it's spicier than Who's Who. What the new version of the Celebrity Register is, says its movie-credit-like cover, is "an Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables edited by Cleveland Amory with Earl Blackwell." Ringmaster Amory, who killed society, has now set about celebrities, and when in doubt on what to say, he has dropped back and punned. Marlon Brando is "the all-time tempest in a T-shirt." Tommy Manville is "an altar-ego." Eva Gabor is "strictly from Hungary." Alfred Hitchcock is the "star of staged screams and television." And Elizabeth Taylor is "a million-dollar crybaby in a wive-and-men spent store." Whew. That took four years to write?

He is old enough to be her grandfather, but spry is hardly the word for the pace he sets. After four months of marriage, Joan Martin Douglas, 23, reported that she could keep up—just barely—with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 65. "I'm taking vitamin pills," confessed the jurist's third wife. "Some people wondered how my husband would keep up with me, but I can't think of a minute when he isn't doing something constructive, speaking, writing, hiking or putting up storm windows." Hiking was the toughest part: "I'm all right for an hour or so, then I get tired." Added Joan brightly: "There is too much chitter-chatter about age these days."

Twas the week 'fore Thanksgiving

and at ABC The execs were all grousing about

their turkey. The show had been hung by the

ratings with care, But Clown Jerry Lewis was still on

the air.

Seems viewers with knitting or maybe nightcap Watched anything else, or just took

a nap. So laying a finger on each side of

their noses The execs said three more—and then

the show closes. It had cost $40 million, a lot for a

fizzle, Plus what they paid Jerry to cool off

his sizzle. Still the clown no doubt thought as

they drove him from sight: "Happy Nielsen to others. I just had

a bad night."