In & Out

Ex-U.S. Judge Martin T. Manton, who peddled his decisions for $122,000, got five months knocked off his two-year sentence for good behavior, leaves Lewisburg penitentiary Oct. 13. sb sb Rumania's Ace Stunt Flyer Captain Alex Papana was arrested for working in a Pinehurst tearoom in violation of his visitor's visa. sbsb Andrew J. ("Bossy") Gillis, ex-"bad boy mayor" of Newburyport, Mass., will run for office from his cell, where he is now serving a term for libeling a judge.

New Hetty Green

A furor in Newport over the dilapidation of Mrs. James Jay Coogan's empty mansion on aristocratic Catherine Street turned the spotlight on one of the world's wealthiest recluses: for 25 years Mrs. Coogan, now well into her eighties, has seldom left her Manhattan hotel suite in the daytime, but each night at 9 o'clock she goes down in the freight elevator heavily veiled, drives to her cubbyhole office in a loft building, puts in five hours administering her real-estate fortune (which includes Coogan's Bluff, the Polo Grounds where the Giants play). She and her daughter, Jessie, do all the chores about their suite, which neither maid nor bellboy may enter. She never answers letters, for years has hardly glanced at a newspaper. But before her Tammany husband died in 1915 she spent eight years vainly trying to crash Newport society. The book found on her bedroom table in Newport was Burke's Peerage--for 1910.

Fortunes of War

Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, unscratched survivor of bombings, torpedoings, and shellfire, got his first wound. Friends gave him a goat as a mascot for his aircraft carrier Illustrious, now at Norfolk Navy Yard. The goat promptly bit him. sb sb J. P. Morgan's 40-year-old son and Morgan Stanley official, Henry Sturgis Morgan, was called to active service as a Naval Reserve lieutenant--in the procurement planning section, sb sb Naval Reserve Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was ordered to prepare for active duty. Leading rumor was he would be drafted by the State Department for a mission to Vichy. sb sb Seventy-four-year-old James W. Gerard, World War I Ambassador to Germany, asked the police of Teaneck, N.J. to let him use their pistol range for practice.

Forced down in a Kansas pasture, Governor Payne Harry Ratner and the pilot of his plane took to the road, tried thumbing rides with no success at all. One passing motorist learned their identity later, apologized to the Governor: "My wife thought you were a couple of magazine salesmen."

Hollywood

Lunchroom Proprietor H. B. Clifford collected the kiss Paulette Goddard had promised the man who brought the most aluminum to her door. It lasted 45 seconds, by the stop watch of Cecil B. De Mille. Running comment was provided by Mrs. Clifford: "You old fool. . . . What's an old man like you doing this for? . . . He never kissed me like that. . . . Cliff! You stop that! (De Mille: 'Time.') . . . You come right on home. . . . And wipe off your mouth!" sb sb Errol Flynn whacked Columnist Jimmie Fidler in a nightclub, claimed Mrs. Fidler wounded him in the ear with her fork. The row was over Fidler's cracks about the movie industry, it Meanwhile attorneys for Flynn and Wife Lili Damita are arranging a property settlement, with a separation in the offing. sb sbBing Crosby practiced a week for a try at Rigoletto with the San Francisco Opera, decided it wasn't his field. sb sb Sonja Henie was finally sworn in as a U.S. citizen. sb sb Reporting that she had been booed in Rio, on the street, at the opera door and on the stage as Tosca, Grace Moore said the booers were a Nazi-Fascist claque led by an Italian opera star whom she declined to name. sb sb 20th Century-Fox hired Salvador Dali to stage a special scene--a nightmare sequence showing "what runs through the mind of an inebriate."

Lilies of Field

"I don't know what is going to happen to me," declared one of the U.S.'s wealthiest citizens. "I happen to have been left a great deal of money [about $150,000,000]. I don't know what is going to happen to it, and I don't give a damn." Speaking was Publisher Marshall Field III, who made the remarks as he talked hopefully of great social reforms after the war. Next day he looked at his words in cold newspaper type, decided to clear up a point. He would be "willing to risk the fortune in some new order," he explained, but: "Naturally I will make every reasonable effort to protect my money." Concerning the nature of the "new order," he said that he trusted the political powers-that-be to work things out by themselves.

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