To news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news:

P: To the arrest of U. S.-born Bert Hall ("General Chan"), onetime instructor to the air forces of China's Nanking and Canton Governments, for swindling a Chinese general out of $10,000 (Mexican) intended as payment for German pistols which never were delivered (TIME, Oct. 30): sentence of two and one-half years to be served in a U. S. penitentiary, imposed by a U. S. extraterritorial court in Shanghai.

P: To the suit brought against Film Actress Claire Windsor by Marian Read in Los Angeles for alienating the affections of Broker Alfred C. Read Jr. (TIME, Sept. 25): decision by Superior Judge J. P. Sproul that the jury's award of $75,000 against Actress Windsor "was so grossly excessive and unreasonable as to raise the presumption of passion and prejudice." He ordered a new trial.

P: To the suit filed in Rome by Pietro Vernati, 33, estranged husband of Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzini, 62, to restrain her expenditures on the ground that she is a "megalomaniac squanderer" (TIME, July 10): rejection.

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