At a special Hollywood auction (for the benefit of the Motion Picture Relief Fund), loyal Democrats Edward G. Robinson and Melvyn Douglas raised $3,200 between them, triumphantly retired from circulation the dun-colored fedora under which Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned thrice for the Presidency.

Safely out from under his oxygen tent, tough, square-rigged Eddie Ricken backer wiggled up a wan thumb to prove his recovery. The old ace (28 planes and balloons downed in World War I) confessed that after three weeks' puzzling over the Atlanta plane crash which took eight lives and nearly his own, "I can find no explanation. We were just flying 1,000 feet too low." No man to be stopped by a broken hip, four fractured ribs, Captain Eddie summoned his Eastern Air Linemen, commenced to do business from his hospital bed.

Eager for details of the campaign and travels of her brother, Wendell, chic, blue-eyed Mrs. Paul Pihl (nee Willkie), whose husband has been Assistant U. S. Naval Attache in Berlin the last three years, arrived from Lisbon with Freckles, her red cocker, still snug under her arm, had her picture taken with Mrs. Wendell Willkie, who went to greet her at Jersey City.

Day after his private plane plunked into a California field, long-lipped, string-bean Jimmy Stewart, best cinemactor of 1940, barged through a suitably large mob of female admirers into a Los Angeles trolley car, departed with other draftees for a year in the Army. Jimmy figured to make rather less money this year -- $21 a month instead of $6,000.

Two years ago the Governor of Bermuda quit because he couldn't have a car. Last week his successor, Lieut. General Sir Denis Bernard, fell off his bicycle and hurt his head.

Having long since trained his noted eyebrows to face whatever task the febrile fancy of Hollywood directors may dream up for him, Thin Man Bill Powell, unprotected even by mustache, warped resolutely into a wasp-waist coat, prepared to play a female role in his newest picture.

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