Off Santa Catalina Island, Calif., Charlie Chaplin rowed away from his yacht Panacea to get a little exercise, lost an oar, failed to start his outboard motor, drifted aimlessly for two hours before being rescued.

British Captain-Couturier Edward Henry Molyneux, slim, blond women's fashion stylist who won a British Military Cross in World War I, moved his salon from Paris to Limoges.

Blonde British Naziphile the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, "ideal Nordic woman" friend of A. Hitler, was stranded in Munich beyond closed frontiers.

Rufous, rotund Sergeant Alvin C. York, backwoods schoolteacher who became U. S. World War Hero No. 1 by capturing 132 Germans singlehanded, predicted that World War II would be short, set a 30-day time limit before the "great Hitler disappearance" into Holland.

In Manhattan, U. S. Minister to Portugal Herbert Claiborne Pell, old friend & college mate of President Roosevelt, sententious, well-stuffed socialite who delights in shocking his stumer friends, embarked for Portugal to resume his diplomatic duties. Asked if Portugal would become a hot spot, he replied: "I wouldn't be going back if I thought so. I'm no hero."

Mild, professorial Brazilla Carrol Reece, Republican Representative from Tennessee, World War hero, disembarked in Los Angeles from the Matson liner Matsonia, leaving his wife and daughter on board. When he tried to rejoin them, a pier guard at the gang plank refused to let him pass. At that Hero Reece grappled with the guard, bit his ear good & proper.

Fleeing from war-gripped Europe to the U. S., canceling tours in war sectors was many a famed musician: Violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Fritz Kreisler, Nathan Milstein, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Conductor Arturo Toscanini, Singers Alexander Kipnis, Kirsten Flagstad, Giovanni Martinelli, Lauritz Melchior.

Grace Moore, sweet singer from Jellico, Tenn. landed in Manhattan, said she would conclude her U. S. appearances posthaste and hotfoot back to Europe in the hopes of driving an ambulance, because she wants to "do something for France."* Said she: "The French are the bravest people I have ever seen, the most gallant. ... I owe so much of my artistic life to them." When Miss Moore was asked if she were a good driver, her husband, Spanish Cinemactor Valentin Perera, interrupted: "No, she isn't. I am not going to ride in her ambulance. I will have one of my own."

Dashing Captain Fritz Wiedemann,

Nazi Consul General at San Francisco, received a fake telegram demanding his resignation from swank Olympic Club. The fast-talking Consul General--trusted confidant of Adolf Hitler and good friend of Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe, who was publicly called a "dirty spy" in London's Ritz (TIME, Sept. 11)--resigned. Day later he was back in, but club members were reported getting up a true ouster bill this time.

Affable Negro John Henry Lewis, ex-light-heavyweight U. S. boxing champion, who once hoped to earn enough money fighting to become a preacher without having to depend on a preacher's salary, took a job as liquor salesman.

*Miss Moore is privately maintaining 24 families (50 persons) in Mougins, southern France. She revealed that the Duchess of Windsor has taken 300 French boys and girls into her villa for the duration of the war.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.