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In St. Louis, an honor guest of the Negro Elks Convention, stone-faced Joe Louis, announced on behalf of himself and his light-skinned wife, Marva Trotter Barrow: "We're expecting a baby 'bout December. Maybe he'll be a fighter--if he's a he."

When the Cambridge (Mass.) Summer Theatre presented Strip-Teaser Ann Corio in her first dramatic venture, The Barker (TIME, Aug. 12), it informed its patrons: "Fundamentally sweet and wholesome, she is extremely well read, keenly interested in current affairs, and is perfectly at ease when conversing with any person of culture," In a letter last week Sexsation-alist Corio described an afternoon of culture: "Had tea with a Harvard professor and his wife at their home--Professor [Earnest Albert] Hooton, the anthropologist, and we conversed on the subject 'Is Beauty Scientific?' "

Released last autumn from a Swiss insane asylum (TIME, Nov. 27) after 18 years of silent gloom, round-faced, furrow-browed Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, once the world's greatest ballet dancer, declared in Budapest: "I still hope to return to the object of all my desires--the stage."

Orphan's Court (Baltimore) records disclosed that $1,701,940 of a $7,000,000 guardian fund has been spent in three years for the "support, maintenance, edu cation and recreation" of seven-year-old Christopher Smith ("Topper") Reynolds, son of Torchsinger (Moanin' Low} Libby Holman Reynolds Holmes and the late Tobacco (Camels) Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds.

In San Francisco arrived matronly Sigrid Undset, 58, Nobel Prizewinner, prolific author of chronicle novels (Kristin Lamansdatter, The Master of Hestviken, Gunner's Daughter, etc.), and her son Hans. Having lost home, liberty and another son (TIME, May 27) to Nazi conquest, Refugee Undset had a brave, slim smile for newshawks, words of gloom for the U. S.: "We knew there were traitors abroad, wandering over our countryside. But we thought they were silly. We poked fun at them, at the Quislings, at the Wandervogel -- the German student hikers in their short trousers. They constituted an alien phenomenon that we never considered seriously. So when the war came we were unprepared. And that is what will happen to America, only on a larger scale. You will fight for your democracy only when forced to do so by invasion, and then it will be too late."

At a Nassau cocktail party the Duchess of Windsor chatted about mosquito bites, showed a guest great lumps on her arms and silk-clad legs.

The U. S. Government ordered Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone to pay $201,347 in income taxes (1924-29), for the evasion of which he spent seven years in Federal prisons. While he golfed, night-clubbed, swam in the pool of his Palm Island, Fla. villa, Capone's lawyer and doctor were prompt to declare him too broke to pay, too broken to work.

Count Rene Aldebert Pineton de Chambrun, nephew of the late great Nicholas Longworth and descendant of the Marquis de La Fayette, arrived in New York City aboard the Yankee Clipper with his wife Marie Jose, only daughter of Pierre Laval, told newshawks that the French, for lack of food, "are going to suffer more than they have."

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