Dominic Mussolini, 57, unemployed steel worker, second cousin of the Italian dictator, with whom he used to play as a child, became a U. S. citizen in Warren, Ohio. Anton Lang Jr., professor of German at Georgetown University, son of the late Cristus of the Oberammergau Passion Play, filed a petition for U. S. citizenship in Washington, D. C.

At an American Ballad Contest of barbershop quartets and Gibson Girl trios in Manhattan's Central Park, rasp-voiced

Alfred Emanuel Smith, one of the judges, suddenly waved a borrowed derby, sawed his way through The Bowery, joined in an explosive rendition of Sweet Adeline.

Grizzly Dr. Harry Clifton ("Curly") Byrd, publicity-wise president of the University of Maryland, failed to welcome students to the Maryland-Virginia Traffic Policemen's Accident Prevention School. Reason: his carwas disabled in an accident.

In Hollywood Mrs. Eugene Pallette, wife of the froggy-voiced comedian, left a note pinned to the door of her penthouse saying she would return in two hours. Obliged to her for the information, burglars found ample time to make off with $2,000 in jewelry and cash.

To his family (two sons) Herbert Clark Hoover added a foster son, one Ramon Garcia Alvarez, 11, whom the ex-President will support at a cost of $9 a month in a Spanish refugee colony near Biarritz, France.

Into a San Francisco bar strolled septuagenarian, vegetarian St. Louis Estes, who has made a fortune from talks on raw food, fathered seven sons (all named St. Louis) and seven daughters (four un-named). There he made friends with an unknown couple, took them and two bottles of liquor to his Nob Hill penthouse. While he snoozed, his two guests frisked him of $3,800 and departed. His secretary explained that he had "gone into a tavern, as was his custom from time to time, in order to study human nature, mix with the lower elements, and see what is going on in the world."

Back in court was tomato-nosed Funnyman W. C. Fields, trying again to sidestep payment of Dr. Jesse Citron's $12,000 fee for treating a bad case of broncho-pneumonia in 1936. In the first trial the doctor claimed that Fields got sick from drinking too much ("about two quarts a day"). Said Funnyman Fields: "It was two other diseases. I've never been sick from drinking whiskey."

Unwilling to miss a trick, Cinemakers Darryl F. Zanuck, Walter Wanger and Sam Briskin hired the United Press "executive leased wire service" for war coverage--about 10,000 words daily on new streamlined, silent teletype machines. Cost per month: $250.

Paul Gurtler, Sudeten-born, Canadian-naturalized ex-sergeant in the German Army, who volunteered as a private in the Canadian Army (TIME, Sept. 18), failed to pass his physical examination, could not qualify to fight against his ex-subordinate, A. Hitler.

Strong-minded Harold Willis Dodds ("No liquor at football games"), president of Princeton University, welcomed undergraduates at the 193rd opening session of Princeton, warned them of propaganda techniques: "You have no weapons to combat them except the clarity and power of your thought processes and a balanced emotional outlook. Let nothing else divert you from using your mind, however painful or drab its use at times may seem."

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