Three immigrants, now U. S. citizens, were awarded annual scrolls of the National Institute of Immigrant Welfare for "significant contributions to American life": Russian-born David Sarnoff, 48, President of R. C. A.; Scotland-born William Allan Neilson, 70, President of Smith College; Moravian-born Albin Polasek, 60, famed Chicago sculptor.

In Manhattan for a visit landed Idaho-born Poet Ezra Loomis Pound, loudest and funniest U. S. expatriate. Still arrogant, shrill, red-bearded, he readily announced: "I came over only because I'm curious. ... I regard the literature of social significance as of no significance. It is pseudo-pink blah. . . . The best practical economic stuff is being written in Italy today. Men write there for audiences of 500 or 600, say what they want and make sense."

George Palmer Putnam, husband of the late Flier Amelia Earhart and publisher of a book called The Man Who Killed Hitler: 1) told the press he had received no less than three letters threatening him with death and worse if he did not withdraw the book from circulation; 2) got published in Liberty another serial about his wife's disappearance; 3) learned that Mother-in-Law Amy Otis Earhart, 61, was getting ready to move from Boston, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif, so she could be near the spot (Oakland) where her daughter took off on her last flight.

In Durham, N. C., Heiress Doris Duke Cromwell, together with Husband James, donned cap and gown, marched in the centennial procession at Duke University which received its name and some $80,000,000 from Father James Buchanan Duke.

To Wisconsin, where he will become a Franciscan monk, went painfully popular Father Simon Borkowski. Since last September Father Simon has been "imprisoned" in his Vulcan, Mich. Roman Catholic rectory (TIME, Sept. 5) by picketing parishioners who objected to his bishop's transferring him to another diocese.

In Chester, Pa., Donald McKay, seven-year-old great-great-grandson of Donald McKay, famed designer of U. S. clipper ships, christened the first of a group of U. S. Maritime Commission's cargo vessels. Name: Donald McKay.

Old George Bernard Shaw, 82, was made a vice president of London's Voluntary Euthanasia Legalisation Society. Cracked he: ". . . There is not the slightest hope for humankind that I shall practice euthanasia on myself."

To Hollywood went H. R. H. Sylvia, white-skinned Ranee of Sarawak,* for a public reconciliation with her cinemastruck daughter, Mrs. Bob Gregory ("Princess Baba" of Sarawak), who married a wrestler against her mother's wishes. To newsmen the Ranee complained: "My daughter is not a princess and never was a princess!" Added pretty Mrs. Gregory: "And my name was never Princess Baba either!"

Visitors to San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair last week: Artist Rockwell Kent, Author Damon Runyon, Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde. Said she: "I'm not sure I want to look at the World of Tomorrow, considering some phases of the world of today." Pre-visitor to the New York World's Fair: Cinemactor George Arliss.

-Sarawak, an independent State in Borneo, is governed by the pure-British heirs of Sir James Brooke, who became its first Rajah in 1841.

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