People, Nov. 26, 1973

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At a presidential get-together in San Clemente last June, Leonid Brezhnev hit it off so well with Actor Chuck Connors that the Soviet party leader invited Connors to look him up sometime. Connors leaves for Moscow next week. He stopped by White House to say dosvidaniya to the host whose party say started it all, and who is counting on the trip to help repair some of the damage to East-West détente caused by the Middle East war. "The President gave me about two dozen presidential tie clips and ladies' pins, with instructions to spread them around when I thought it appropriate," said Connors. Brezhnev will get more than a tie clip. "I've ordered two engraved Colt revolvers or for the General Secretary," Connors added. "Brezhnev is quite a western buff."

William Randolph Hearst was a "son of a bitch." Charlie Chaplin was "so shy" at a whorehouse. Joe DiMaggio was "a washed-up ballplayer" when he married Marilyn Monroe, and he "used to sit home every night watching television " Strong stuff? Too strong for Groucho Marx, who did indeed say those things but wishes that a duck had dropped from the ceiling to stop him. Groucho cited the examples— and more— in court papers filed in his $15 million damage suit against Darien House Inc., publisher of The Marx Bros. Scrapbook ($13.95) for failing to sanitize some of his grouchier remarks. Last week Groucho lost the first round when New York State court refused to grant an injunction to stop distribution of the book.

Dizzy Gillespie blew his horn, James Brown accompanied himself on the pelvis, and Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco for the 4,631st time That would be quite a show anywhere, but in Harlem ... well, it was show enough to make limousines full of people who rare£ SSS(TM) K to Harlem pay as much as $100 each for the privilege. Of course every C note sung and spent went for a noble cause: the Dance Theater of Harem. Finally the whole stageful of illustrious benefactors was upstaged by the long-limbed benefactees. D.TH danc ers leaped and floated through tribal rituals and Balanchine abstractions Said Actor Brock Peters, board chairman of the four-year-old dance company: "This community still has a cultural life. We've never been culturally deprived."

"Before I go any further, I want to clear up the two questions about me that are on everybody's mind," announced Joel Grey. The answer to the first question is 5 ft. 5 in. The answer to the second is April 11,1932, and 119 Ibs." That said, the pocket Steptanzer from Cabaret, who was master of ceremonies for the evening's San Francisco Opera Guild benefit, introduced his partner Beverly Sills. "I won't tell you how old am or how much I weigh," said the 44-year-old soprano, who weighs more than 119 Ibs., "but I'll sing." She delivered Una voce poco fa from It Barbiere di Siviglia, prompting Grey to begin the duet Là ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni. But the bantam of the opera was no match for the diva, who drowned him out. Said Sills: "He's more sexy with." Said the don: "Cesare Siepi, eat your heart out."