Daughter to one John Pierpont Morgan, sister to another, looking like both, Anne Morgan, head of the American Friends of France, told a Manhattan interviewer: "I live on a trust fund [$3,000,000] and I happen to have confidence in my brother. He handles all of my business. I wouldn't know how to manage my own affairs."

At his first "press conference," five-month-old Harold Ickes Jr., spit-&-image son of the Secretary of the Interior, posed for photographers (see cut), was irreverently labeled by newsmen "Young Ick" and "Scion of Sass." Shy, serious, six-foot David Rockefeller, youngest of John D. Jr.'s five sons, rode in Manhattan's subway to the Municipal Lodging House, looked over its rooms, ate a six-and-a-half-cent meal (corn soup, codfish, celery and green peppers, applesauce, milk) with homeless men, rode back in the subway to make notes for his University of Chicago Ph.D. thesis* on a still undetermined subject. That night, dancing with Socialite Margaret McGrath, daughter of Wall Street Lawyer Francis Sims McGrath, in Rockefeller Center's swank Rainbow Room, Son David won the polka prize.

Favorite artist to collegians of the '203 was John Held Jr., who gave the flapper a vogue. Appointed to be artist-in-residence at Harvard, he announced: 1) he didn't know what he was supposed to do, 2) the flapper's modern successor, the glamor girl, "is the synthetic best that a few rather addle-witted movie press agents produced for the night club columnists."

Joseph Paul-Boncour, onetime French Foreign Minister and perennial delegate to the League of Nations, had to leave his compartment on the Paris-Hague express when a broken pipe suddenly drenched him with steam. Quipped a colleague: "You have just rendered impromptu homage to Finland by taking a Finnish steam bath."

"I," said Adolf Hitler every 53 words; Mussolini, every 83 words; President Roosevelt, every 100 words. These were the findings of a Syracuse University student making a survey of their speeches. Additional "I" data: Premier Daladier uses the personal pronoun every 234 words; Prime Minister Chamberlain only once in 249.

At its second annual meeting, the Mother-in-Law Association of Saks Thirty-Fourth Street, Manhattan department store, gave four judges--Publisher Wilfred Funk, Actress Helen Hayes's mother Catherine Hayes Brown, Singer Lanny Ross, Quizzer Craig ("Professor Quiz") Earl--the task of choosing a word to replace "mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president of the National Mother-in-Law Club, carried a sign reading: " 'MOTHER IN LAW' IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR US!"

In Palm Beach, Fla. stare-fleeing Greta Garbo shared stares with her latest traveling companion, Dietitian Bengamin Gayelord Hauser (see cut).

In Santa Barbara, Calif., Alexander Woollcott finally drew on the buskin (twice refused), and played himself in The Man Who Came to Dinner.

*For news of another undergraduate thesis, see p. 65.

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