Without so much as a grunt of compunction, Seminole Indians of eastern Oklahoma re-elected Chief Estahakee (in private life, Farmer George Jones of Wewoka, Okla.) to a third term.

After graduating cum laude from Howard University, freckled Vunies Barrow, 23, sister of freckled Heavyweight Cham pion Joe Louis (Barrow), shuffled up to him with her guard down, got a stunning smack on the cheek (see cut).

British Pacifist Bertrand Russell, 63, who went to jail (six months) for his beliefs in World War I, announced from California that he had changed his mind: "Since the war began, I have felt that I could not go on being a pacifist. If I were young enough to fight I would do so." Visiting in England, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, "White Rajah" of Sarawak (Northwestern Borneo), contributed 1,000,000 Malayan Straits dollars (about $470,000) to help the British Government win the war.

Said Viscount Gort, commander of the B. E. F., after dodging a Nazi tank column in Flanders: "I am damned if I'll let the Germans capture me. I am willing to face out the matter of death, but I certainly do not intend to be paraded down Unter den Linden for the Germans to jeer."

As president of the International Chamber of Commerce in 1937, Thomas John Watson, International Business Machines president, accepted the Merit Cross of the German Eagle. "Because the present policies of your Government are contrary to the causes for which I have been working," Tycoon Watson last week sent the medal back to Hitler.

Reminding Columbia University alumni that Dante "reserved the lowest rung in hell for those who were 'neither for God nor against Him but only for themselves,' " British Ambassador to the U. S. Lord Lothian added "That is one reason why the democracies are in hell today."

Following cabled instructions from their Government exiled in Poitiers, France, officials of the Belgian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair removed from the reception lobby a white marble bust of King Leopold III.

To the puppet zoo on the desk of Franklin D. Roosevelt (a red rooster, two penguins, a grey hen, an owl, six Democratic donkeys) was added an elephant.

Informed that New York member-mothers had pledged themselves to develop the art of potshotting descending parachute troops (TIME, June 3), Novelist-Mother Kathleen Morris, president of the National Legion of Mothers of America, protested: ". . . Warlike flights of fancy. . . . We are not planning to take up arms. Ours is a peace organization."

"Shocked" at the "neglect" shown by A. F. of L., John L. Lewis snagged the role of good Samaritan, announced a

C. I. O. gift of $500 to Mrs. Samuel Gompers, 57, disinherited widow of the late, great A. F. of L. leader. Said William Green: "No comment. We have been dealing with that problem for several years." Gangling (6 ft. 7 in.) Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood, veteran of World War I, admitted that he turns over his weekly royalties (about $2,200) from "There Shall Be No Night" for civilian relief in Europe, has given more than $15,000 to war relief since September.

British Humorist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was caught in a situation he might have devised himself. While he and his wife served cocktails to friends in their villa at Le Touquet, they were warned that the Germans would be there in an hour, took the news with unruffled skepticism. The Nazis arrived on schedule, broke up the party, let U. S.-born Mrs. Wodehouse go, held fast to P. G.

Wodehousian to the last, he cracked: "Maybe this will give me the material to write a serious book." When dusky Songster Maxine Sullivan

sang her swing version of Loch Lomond at the Princeton Class of 1930 > reunion, beery old grads gave her one locomotive (Princeton cheer).

From Paris via Switzerland, whither he fled from his onetime friends, the Nazis, German Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen prophesied the fall of Hitler "once the German people understand how they have been betrayed." Said he: "Never was a war so recklessly started and with less industrial preparation."

Published in Chicago was the 1940-41 Who's Who in America, biennial roster of notables. Total Who's: 31.752. Biggest Who (since the deaths of Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo and Lawyer Samuel Unter-myer): Nicholas Murray Butler, 119 lines, Newcomers: Shirley Temple ("decorations awarded from eight States"), Deanna Durbin ("singer, actress"), Frank Buck ("interested in wild animals"). Definitely Republican: Wendell Willkie, formerly a Democrat. First time in 14 years: Pronouncing dictionary of difficult names. Revived: Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan and president of the American Friends of France, inexplicably listed in the 1938-39 volume as having died on Aug. 25, 1936.

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