Lady David Douglas-Hamilton, 25, better known by her maiden name, Prunella Stack, best known as Britain's Perfect Woman because she heads Women's League of Health & Beauty (founded by her mother), announced in London that she and her husband, the boxing Marquess of Clydesdale, hope for a perfect baby in June. Said she: "I am keeping myself fit for the event."

Earl Carroll received an invitation to act as a supporter of Presidential Candidate Robert A. Taft. Reason: in the campaign of 1912 Carroll was one of the composers of a song, Jump On the Raft With Taft. At that time Carroll went to Washington with a quartet, rose in the House gallery, started to sing his song, was thrown out.

Under the benign gaze of a life-size statue of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, the marquee of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles billed: "'Confusion Say' Vividly Illustrated."

Sportsman Charles Stewart Howard rejoiced at the birth at his Ridgewood Ranch at Willits, Calif, of a chestnut colt: first get of Seabiscuit, world's top moneymaker.

As the Conte di Savoia's gangplank touched a Manhattan pier, a man in black darted aboard. Confused, he peered in vain through the crowd for the person he expected. "Here she is!" chorused the crowd. Blushing, Finnish Minister to the U. S. Hjalmar Procope rushed to greet his fiancee, Margaret Katherine Mary Shaw of York, England (TIME, March 25). They were married two days later in Fairfax, Va.

White-haired Lawyer Walter Gould Lincoln, eighth cousin of Abraham Lincoln, asked Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Henry M. Willis for an injunction to halt cinema showing of Abe Lincoln in Illinois (TIME, Feb. 5). His objection: the film gives the impression that his cousin, who died 75 years ago, was "lazy, shiftless, vacillating and had no ambition."

In Chungking, capital of the free Chinese Republic, work was rushed on an iron statue of Wang Ching-wei, Japanese puppet installed last week in Nanking, and his wife. Pose: kneeling, like traitors about to be beheaded. Purpose: to let the populace spit on them.

Florence Bankhead, stepmother of Tallulah. wife of the Speaker of the House, admitted putting finishing touches on the Howard Chandler Christy portrait of her which hangs in the Bankhead apartment. Said she: "I added lipstick. The lips were too pale."

Riding in a taxi at midnight, Columnist Walter Winchell (who since he was once threatened by gangsters has a permit to carry a gun) saw a policeman blazing away at three bandits who had held up a mid-Manhattan bar. Drawing his gun he jumped from the cab. joined the chase. No hits, no captures. Wrote he in the Sunday Mirror: "The cabbie who picked up two guys on Central Park West didn't get his fare. ... If he will contact the col'm. he'll get it."

John L. Lewis' daughter and secretary, plump Kathryn Lewis, who seldom appears in public, took a long lunch hour off from her job, spent it marching in a picketline before a cafeteria in Washington's National Press Building.

In Germany, onetime Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling received a letter from a U. S. admirer. A British censor had not only opened the letter but on the envelope had scribbled: "Hello, Max."

To get even with New Hampshire's Senator Charles William Tobey, who said he would rather go to jail than answer prying census questions (TIME, March 11), the Census Bureau announced that if he would just say publicly how many hours he worked in the week of March 24-30, it need not bother him: all the other census questions about him could be filled in from his biography in the Congressional Directory, Who's Who, newspaper files.

Radio's Voice of Experience, M. Sayle Taylor, drove through a red light, got a ticket, and stood before Justice of the Peace Cecil Holland in Beverly Hills, Calif. Said the justice, suspending a $3 fine: "The voice of experience should tell you to watch the signals."

In Hollywood, six artists headed by Jefferson Machamer announced that "the most beautiful body in the world" was that of Charlie Chaplin's very good friend or wife, Paulette Goddard.

Suresnes, suburb of Paris, decided to honor The President of the U. S., renamed the Rue du Mont-Valerien Avenue Franklin-Roosevelt.

To a proud papa of triplets, Policeman Anthony Manning of Albany, N.Y., visiting Dr. Roy Allan Dafoe offered some pointers: "Don't be alarmed if the triplets are not talkative. There is a tendency in multiple birth children not to talk much."

Vexed at receiving a package containing sardines, cheese, chocolate, honey and peanut butter from a Philadelphia admirer who thought he might be hungry in wartime, Josiah, Baron Stamp, economic adviser to the British Government, announced he would send back photographs of well-stocked food stores.

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