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*** VERY INTERESTING PEOPLE Hoover May Retire As FBI Director By-MAXINE CHESHIRE WASHINGTON-Inside sources at the Federal Bureau of Investigation are beginning to think that maybe Direc tor J.Edgar Hoover really does intend to retire on his 75th birthday this upcoming Jan.I. Personnel who handIe press and pub- lic information Mrs.Cheshire have been noti- fied that no. leaves of absence will be granted during Decem- ber and January. This was interpreted by some to mean that a full staff will be needed to handle the fanfare of J.EDGAR HOOVER IGOR CAssiNI .. . prestige retirement stories. .retirement in January? and power more than money The FBI director reached the mandatory retirement age for the column. age," he explained, "you either federal employees in 1964, but But the irony is that the Cas- become a saint or a sinner.Im forner President Johnson sinis aren't writing it. aiming for sainthood." signed an executive order allow- They're using the same ghost In Newport, the y'r e saying ing Hoover to remain on the job who wrote much of Igor's stuff that Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr. indefinitely. when he was Cholly Knicker outdid the Kennedys when he There have been repreated re- bocker and running a public re- was up there last weekend to ports over the past year that Ja ti on s sideline that brought make a speech. In one day, he Hoover does not intend to stay him $800,000 a year. went water-skiing, skeet-shoot- after he reaches 75. He report- Liz Smith, one of the most ing, golfing and fishing and at- edly already has informed Pres- prolific and highest-paid maga- tended one picnic and two par- ident Nixon that he, H.oov.e r, zine writers in New York, has ties that night ... one of Mrs. wanted to remain until this par- been ghosting The Cassini Car- Eugene Mc C a rthy's closest ticular birthday celebration and ousel" this summer for free and friends says that the real reason will then be willing to step aside for old times sake. her husband has asked for his for a younger man. The Cassinis reportedly of- freedom is his friendship with! CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER fered her all the income from CBS news correspondent Marya may be making a comeback. the cohumn if she would con- McLaughlin. But she wasn't the Igor Cassini, whose troubles tinue to turn it out on a full- pretty brunette with whom he : was seen lunching here recent-: ness as the country's most pow- $250 a week as Igor's "assis- When Ailsa Mellon Bruce died erful gossip columnist,is trying at the age of 68 recently, her to get syndicated again. The prestige and potential aged moth er flew here from He and his brother, fashion power apparently interest the Engla n dor the funeral.Not designer Oleg Cassini, have a brothers more than money. many people realiezd she was ! on ce-a -w eek double byline But she turned them down. still alive.She's been something It is supposed to combine socie- do a column of her own under socialites here and abroad. Not ty and fashion and replaces the her own name if she were so in- much is known about her except style advice column which Oleg clined. that her name was Nora Mc- began doing when he was in his MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Mullen and she married Andrew heyday as White House coutu- has changed since writing his Mellon in 1900 when he was 45 rier to Mrs. John F. Kennedy. new "Rediscovery of Je s u s." and her age was unknown. She Some big newspapers, includ- Dinin g here at Rive Gauche divorced him in 1910, gave him Ing the Chicago Sun-Times, the with anglophile Kay Halle, Mug- custody of their children and re- Detroit Free-Press and the San geridge disclosed that he has turned to England to live. Francisco Chronicle, are using become a y Giobe-Democ t-ashlngton Post ENCLOSURE