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"Good intermediate" skier Kim Novak (below) stopped off at Aspen for a little Wedeln and weddin'. The wedding, an outdoor ceremony, took precedence, however. Just as well, perhaps, for Kim—like everyone else—is said to ski a little too fast for her ability, and new husband Richard Johnson has tried the sport only four or five times.

The first ascent of newly named Mount Kennedy, a jagged ice-hung granite spire near the Yukon -Alaska border, will be attempted by an American party of old Everest hands and by a Sunday hiker of no mountain-climbing experience whatsoever, Robert F. Kennedy . Accompanied by Jim Whittaker , first American atop Everest, Bobby is joining the combined Boston Museum of Science-National Geographic Society venture to get a full and unexpurgated dose of mountain. At 13,900 feet Mount Kennedy is the highest unclimbed peak in North America . Its challenging summit approaches are notable for sheer granite slabs, for temperatures of 35� below and for 80-mile-an-hour winds.

Charles Liston, most of whose previous performances have been on closed-circuit television or radar, hopes to bury forever his reputation as a bad actor. Sonny has signed for a role in the film production Harlow. He will portray a boxer.

Queen Mother Elizabeth, long an avid racing enthusiast and owner of a stable of winning steeplechasers, is the latest and most famous subscriber to a "blower" line. For $11 a week she gets a private telephone that wafts results and commentary on the ponies direct from the track. In England it's legal.

Algeria may be a trifle short of cash, but it has a surplus of soccer rabidity—and mineral resources. So when Pel�, the Brazilian player reputed to be the world's best, scored eight goals in one game, the North Africans could no longer restrain themselves. An Algerian club offered to barter a whole shipful of gasoline, phosphates, coal and liquid gas for Pel�. Although the offer topped the existing record bid of 50,000 barrels of coffee beans, Pel�'s team refused.

Show biz took both Danny Kaye and the Dodgers out of Brooklyn , but it did not take Brooklyn out of either boy or Bums. Last week Flatbush -born Kaye flew from New Orleans to St. Petersburg just to watch the Dodgers play. "I'm a rabid ball fan," he said almost apologetically. "Always have been." By ball fan, of course, Kaye means Dodger fan. Estimating that Danny sees 90% of home games in Los Angeles , General Manager Buzzy Bavasi says that, for a Brooklyn Dodger fan, Kaye is very loyal: "As long as we win, he's satisfied."

Ranking fallen skier of the season: Queen Juliana of The Netherlands , who broke her right ankle skiing at Lech, Austria . After Treatment in Z�rs, she returned to Lech with her leg in a plaster cast.

Adolph Rupp of Kentucky , the old basketball generalissimo, suffered through a 15-10 record this season, the worst in his 34 years as head coach. Though shaken by this intimation of mortality, Rupp could scarcely have anticipated the further ignominy awaiting him. On a recent trip through western Kentucky , Rupp stopped at a remote crossroads store to buy a fine-looking country ham he had spotted in the window. When he started to pay for the ham, he found he didn't have enough cash. The storekeeper agreed to take a check. Rupp beamed, made one out and pointed to the signature. "Know who that is?" he asked expansively. "Well," the merchant replied, "I'm a hopin' it's you."

Barbara Hutton , weighing only 92� pounds as the consequence of a mysterious intestinal ailment, left San Francisco for Maui and a period of recuperation. "I'm looking forward to a lot of golf in the Islands," said Barbara. "Oh, I don't play," she admitted. "I just follow the others around. I love the feel of grass on my bare feet."

Jon Morrow Lindbergh is a man fascinated by the sea. Setting up a deep-sea-diving business in Seattle for Ocean Systems Inc., Lindbergh plans to use a 200-pound pressurized diving bell which he himself helped develop. "Underwater exploration techniques and equipment are at the same exciting stage today that airplanes were 30 years ago," he says.