As Nazis called in their last copper coins for war use (to be replaced by zinc tokens), Adolf Hitler grimly stalked through his 1,400-ft.-long Chancellery, which he proudly completed only a year ago, designating what he would sacrifice to the "metal war chest." Chief items: the Chancellery's famed bronze doors and great candelabra.

From 1,700 candidates the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation picked 73 to spend 1940-41 doing special studies at its expense (average grant $2,500 per scholar). Cast in unusual roles by the awards are two successful candidates: Novelist John dos Passes, who will complete a series of essays on present American conceptions of freedom of thought; Artist Miguel Covarrubias, who will write a book on the culture of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

First woman passenger ever to fly in an airplane was Edith Ogilvy Druce. (Date: Oct. 7, 1908. Place: Le Mans, France. Machine: a bamboo and piano-wire biplane. Position: seated in front of the wings. Pilot: Wilbur Wright. Duration: 3 min. Altitude reached: 97 ft.) Last week Expatriate Druce, sixtyish, two days after returning to the U. S., took her second flight as a guest of American Airlines in a modern transport plane over New York City. As a stewardess helped her into an armchair aboard the airliner, she called to the pilot: "Not too high and not too far, young man!"

University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins refused Communist Earl Browder (out on bail pending appeal of his conviction for passport fraud) permission to speak on the University of Chicago campus. Said Hutchins to protesting students: "If the university banned a redheaded man it would be an infringement of civil liberties. If it banned a murderer it would not. This case lies somewhere in between."

Bearded Germanophile Poultney Bigelow, 84, good friend and biographer of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, after a visit to Germany but not to his 81-year-old friend at Doom, returned to the U. S., exclaimed: "I'm so homesick, I can't see straight."

Washington newshawks, endlessly questing for a third-term clue, asked Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes what he might be doing next year. He snorted: "I may have to insert a want ad in a newspaper: Position wanted; shopworn, overworked, tired old man who has received more brickbats than any other in public life."

Arriving in Bergen, Norway, by ship, but accompanied by an airplane and mechanic, Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "Black Eagle" of Harlem, announced that he had come to fight for Finland but, since the Finnish war had been concluded 24 days before, would offer his services if Finland was again attacked.

George Bernard Shaw, free of charge, presented Manhattan Caricaturist Jack Rosen with an original self-portrait of G. B. Shaw in a top hat -- scrawled on top of a caricature which Rosen had sent him (see cut). Said Shaw in a dedicatory note on the back: "Your caricature is a stupid one. When you are caricaturing a brain worker make his forehead nine-tenths of the picture." Reproved, Rosen tried again (see cut).

After a lecture in Pasadena Mercury-&-Marsman Orson Welles (see p. 58), minus his recent beard, was asked: "Is it possible to be both a great actor and a ham?" Said he, after a pause: "Yes."

British Broadcasting Corp. announced that on Lord & Lady Aster's estate, Cliveden in Buckinghamshire (headquarters of the much publicized "Cliveden Set"), a 600-bed hospital was being built to accommodate Canadians wounded in the war which all the Cliveden set's appeasement did not prevent.

Because "this country is so diverse . . . that one's simply got to move about to build up a composite picture," Richard Gardiner Casey, Australian Minister to the U. S., an experienced pilot, purchased a plane for a series of air jaunts out of Washington. Said he jovially over tea at the Legation: "They'll be friendly air raids, of course."

To promote home industry, Italian cinemakers held a contest in Rome to find another (Italian) Shirley Temple. With no more trouble than Lamas have in discovering a new Dalai Lama, they found her: chubby Germana Calderini, aged seven.

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