In Ottawa, the Governor General's lady, alert, peppery Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, founded an organization with the aim of aiding Frenchmen living in Britain (onefourth of the Canadian population is French). Her advice to knitters: "Don't forget French feet are smaller. Knit them size 9 1/2 to 10 1/2 instead of the big socks needed for Canadians."

Repelled by "the unbearable moral atmosphere of the European continent," patriarchal Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, 80, Poland's first Premier, arrived in the U. S. for the 21st time, announced his present slogan: Help Great Britain Save the World.

Thick-lipped, pat-standing Republican George Upton Harvey, Borough President of Queens (only big Republican borough in New York City), who last month swore he would move to Canada if Roosevelt won, looked over local election returns showing a Republican plurality, decided: "The people of Queens want me to stay. ... I can take it. They need me here now more than ever."

Bursting with pride and conjugal affection, brash little Broadwayman Billy Rose proclaimed that, his New York World's Fair Aquacade ended, its vivid, dark-eyed queen, Eleanor Holm Jarrett Rose, would "retire and run our home." Trilled Aquabelle Eleanor: "I had a wonderful dream last night. I dreamed I woke up and my maid said, 'Your bath is ready. And I just laughed and told her, 'I'm never going to get in the water again.' "

One of the President's election-night telegrams read: "Congratulations. I pledge my support for national defense and national unity against attacks from all aggressor nations and to keep America out of foreign wars. Hamilton Fish,* of the firm of Martin, Barton and Fish."

A Yorkshireman received a letter from his son in a German prison camp, who reported that among his fellow prisoners was bald, twinkly Novelist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, last heard from in July when the Germans captured him and his Le Touquet villa.

Announced by the Navy Department was the retirement "for physical disability" of Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, 34, who in 1932 was convicted of manslaughter (and sentenced to an hour's imprisonment) for killing a Hawaiian allegedly guilty of raping his wife, Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie. Lieut. Massie was later divorced, remarried.

In Los Angeles, leading his company of marines in columns of fives, Captain James Roosevelt marched them to the place where the battalion was lining up. At the proper spot he barked: "Halt! Left Face!" Executing the order with precision, they came to a halt exactly in the battalion front, buttocks toward the major in command, faces to a concrete wall. Quickly Captain Jimmy, summoning all his military experience (until Aug. 1: three weeks of active duty at Quantico, Va.; one night a week drill, several hours a week of administrative duty), squeaked "About Face," while seasoned sergeants winced, looked down their noses.

Discovered running a vegetable juice stand at Palm Springs, Calif, were J. Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the late Manhattan gangster Dutch Schultz's lawyer who turned State's evidence on James J. Hines and the Schultz gang, and his redheaded, ex-showgirl wife, Hope Dare. Said Dixie: "All I want is to be left alone. Hope and I want a chance to live."

After her station wagon cracked into a car near Redlands, Calif., as she headed for a desert holiday, plump, sixtyish Cinemactress Mary Boland was hospitalized with fractured ribs, dislocated hip, gashed head.

From Berlin came word that Nazis had permitted grave, shy Irene Joliot-Curie, Nobel Prizewinning daughter and image of the late, great Marie Curie, to return to the Paris Radium Institute, resume her experiments in artificial radioactivity.

Having lost his race for U. S. Senator from New Jersey, James Henry Roberts ("Golden Boy") Cromwell seemed to have lost his rich wife too. Day before election, Doris Duke Cromwell, whom he said he last saw at his birthday party in June, flew off en route to Honolulu. At Los Angeles she confirmed news of the separation, commented on Jimmy's election defeat: "It's a great pity, for he worked so hard."

* Re-elected Republican Representative from Mr. Roosevelt's district.

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