At Marlborough-on-Hudson, N. Y., the 150-year-old workshop of Frederic William Goudy, No. 1 U. S. type designer, caught fire and burned to a cinder. Destroyed were: the press on which William Morris printed his Kelmscott Chaucer; the specially made precision instruments with which Goudy made the matrices for his type; his stock of 3,000 to 4,000 matrices. Twenty of his most-famed type faces (he has designed 107)* never having been cast, can never be reproduced. Said 73-year-old Frederic Goudy: "A body blow."

To German Exile Thomas Mann, German Exile Albert Einstein presented the 1939 Albert Einstein medal for humanitarian service./-

Asked about My Dear Children, the play he will open in next month, four-times married John Barrymore replied: "Oh, it's a play about a ham who couldn't get along with his wives."

In Manhattan 49,343 children were polled on the question of who are the most hated and most loved beings in the world. Most hated: 1) Hitler, 2) Mussolini, 3) The Devil. Most loved: 1) Franklin D. Roosevelt, 2) God.

In Cannes, France, as the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, other international socialites sat chatting with Lord Beaverbrook, the talk turned to cuff links. The Duke displayed a fancy pair, given him by his jewel-loving Duchess. Others showed theirs. Lord Beaverbrook stealthily pulled down his coat sleeves. When the Duchess demanded that he show his links, he sheepishly revealed a pair of safety pins.

Back in Europe after a U. S. visit, German Cinema Tsarina Leni Riefenstahl announced that she had had a nice time, except in Hollywood, where she was "trailed continuously by two detectives," who interfered with her walks and "a couple of times" were actually rude to her.

Walter Huston, as peg-legged Pieter Stuyvesant in Knickerbocker Holiday, is a big acting hit on Broadway. One day this week, the 267th anniversary of Stuyvesant's death, Huston, in full costume, stumped up the chancel steps of Manhattan's historic St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie (where Stuyvesant is buried), reviewed the story of "his" life. "When I came to Nieuw Amsterdam," he said, "it was a filthy little village of 700 inhabitants, crowded into scarcely 100 flimsy shacks. . . . The rum shops were better attended than the churches."

Last fall, after a political argument in Greenup, Ky., Hillbilly Poet Jesse Hilton Stuart was blackjacked while his back was turned by Constable Amos Allen. Last week a jury found Constable Allen guilty of assault and battery; the judge fined him $200.

At a luncheon given in his honor by the National Association of Merchant Tailors of America and the Merchant Tailor Designers of America, bigheaded Bachelor Lucius Beebe, most painstaking dude of Manhattan chit-chatterers, declared: "Almost every man has either secretly or patently some feeling for clothes and would indulge his fancy far more lavishly and colorfully were it not for the jealousy, usually expressed in the form of sarcasm, by the women he encounters. ... No woman can stand seeing a man as well or painstakingly dressed as herself."

* This footnote is printed in Goudy Old Style.

/- Past medalists: Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, onetime High Commissioner for German Refugees James Grover McDonald, Executive Director Estelle Sternberger of World Peaceways, Novelist-Playwright Franz Werfel.

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