The important thing for a second-grade teacher is getting across the essence of addition and subtraction. But of late, willowy Social Registerite Victoria Thompson, a 1960 Radcliffe graduate who teaches well-scrubbed little girls at Manhattan's exclusive Chapin School, finds her problems multiplying, what with all those reporters nosing around. One newshen nabbed her last week, but Vickie muttered, "I can't talk about that" and hurried away. About what? Well, what that happy band of Rocky boosters on the Coast keeps gloating about: they say that on June 10 Victoria will marry Dr. James Slater Murphy, 42, the suave Manhattan virologist who was Happy Rockefeller's first husband.

"It's just one of those silly things," says New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson, who started keeping licorice in his Capitol desk years ago to sweeten up dull debates. "I would give Wayne Morse some. Then Alan Bible would look over and say, 'What are you doing?' and he'd come around. Gaylord Nelson is the smartest. He waits till he sees a hand going into the box, then he'll come over. Mike Mansfield comes around a lot too. The other day, I accused George Smothers of stealing. He said, 'Not only that, I can prove it,' and he pulled two pieces from his pocket." The end of Anderson's free-candy counter for deserving Democrats may be in sight: licorice manufacturers, happily sniffing publicity, have started to ship in complimentary goodies.

By all odds the most nubile director of a corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange is Catherine Hohenlohe, 22, debutante daughter of Polish Prince Alexander Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen and the late Manhattan heiress Margaret Schulze Downey. Mother was a working director of Newmont Mining Corp. until her death fortnight ago, and now Catherine has been elected to represent the $5,000,000 worth of Newmont stock held by her mother's estate. Presumably, she'll be getting plenty of mature male advice. But those blue-suited young Wall Streeters had better not apply. She is already engaged to Harvard Graduate Student William Ewald Cook.

In advance of what would have been her husband's 47th birthday, Jacqueline Kennedy, 34, traveled to Manhattan to inaugurate a touring exhibit of his mementos to raise funds for the Kennedy Memorial Library. On the day itself, she was home in Washington attending a Mass at St. Matthew's Church. But such occasions are interspersed with lighter ones now. She is being seen more often, around town in Washington and Manhattan, and she appears rested, relaxed, and more beautiful than ever as she smiles and chats with family and friends. At week's end, with her sister Princess Radziwill, Caroline and John Jr., she flew to a family reunion in Hyannis Port, and to appear in a transatlantic TV birthday tribute with Britain's Harold Macmillan, Berlin's Willy Brandt, Ireland's Sean Lemass.

"We do it for love," cried Gina Lollobrigida, 35, letting it be known that in the great beagle debate she and L.B.J. see ear to ear. Gina does it to her six-year-old son Milko: "I love my son; I pull his ears. President Johnson loves his dogs; they love him too. I think this is a natural way to express affection for someone you love very much."

For years, the freckled blonde from Hans Brinkerland has been dazzling European fans with her silver skates. Now American audiences will have a chance to see the twisting double axels, flying camels, and sizzling sit-spins that have made The Netherlands Sjoulcje Dijkstra (pronounced Shaw-keya Dike-stra), 22, European, world and Olympic champion. Outdistancing Sonja Henie as the world's most highly paid winterland performer, Sjoukje signed a two-year contract with the U.S.'s Holiday on Ice show for a reported $50,000 to $90,000 a year, a fancy figure that, if she likes to wear it, too, should buy the girl quite a lot of ice.

"This show depicts the Negro as a foot-shuffling handkerchief-head," snapped Chicago Urban League Director Edwin Berry. "A lazy, soft-shoe jokester is an insult," added Joan Kehoe, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Both groups planned protests, and it looked like check and double check for Amos 'n' Andy, the radio duo born in Chicago in 1928, whose return in a filmed CBS television series had been announced by Chicago station WCIU. However, WCIU's President John Weigel is no man to get regusted. "When you try to expurge folklore," he retorted, "it's a bad situation, comparable to book burning in Nazi Germany." On with the show.

James Hoffa, 51, has been on trial in federal court six times in the past six years, and the fees on that kind of action mount up. Until recently, his Teamsters Union footed the bills. But last month Jimmy got the boot instead when a group of unmatey Teamsters sued to keep him from using union funds. Though he plans to fight the suit, Hoffa sadly says that he is selling stocks, bonds, "what amounts to all my savings," to pay costs estimated at $1,000,000 so far this year. "I've got to earn the money somehow," he explained.

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