War World

One of Queen Victoria's yard-wide linen chemises and a pair of her stockings went on sale in Manhattan for British War Relief. sbsbOn tiptoe stood King George (5 ft. ii in.) in London, stretched up, pinned a Distinguished Flying Cross on 6 ft. 7 in. Flight Lieutenant Roger Hunter. sbsb Naval Reserve Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. reported for active duty in Boston, was assigned to public relations work. sbsb Private Abner Powell Jr., Joe Louis' sparring partner, arrived at Camp Upton, L.I., sighed happily: "I'm kind of glad to get away from it for a while."

In New York on a visit from the land of fast political football, eight-year-old "Papo," son of Cuba's President Fulgencio Batista, ran into the real thing, promptly took it up in deadly earnest for photographers.

Windsors

In Manhattan: The air-conditioned limousine he rode in broke down twice. She said she hadn't been in a dress shop since May 1940, denied that she bought 34 hats at Bergdorf Goodman. She beat him at a game of darts when they played at the Seamen's Church Institute. The Waldorf-Astoria said he made his own breakfast tea. At a broadcasting studio they laughed their heads off at Eddie Cantor. They arrived at Lady in the Dark 25 minutes late, chatted with Gertrude Lawrence in her dressing room. He wore out reporters in a fast five-hour tour of United Aircraft Corp. plant in East Hartford. She got a permanent. Son of a famous stamp collector, he disclosed he had no collection of his own, explained: "I couldn't see the sense of having two collections in one family." En route to a weekend in New Jersey they discovered valet, maid and all their baggage were missing. The servants turned up two hours late, explained they had got lost.

Arriving by Clipper for a labor meeting, Lord Privy Seal Clement Richard Attlee exclaimed: "What, are they still here?"

Left, Right

Corliss Lamont, deep-pink son of Morgan Partner Thomas, filed suit against Bobbs-Merrill Co., publisher of Eugene Lyons' The Red Decade for $100,000. Named by red-hating Lyons as a fellow traveler who defended Moscow's mass trials and executions, Lamont protested that Lyons had wrongfully classified him as a "stinker." Lyons retorted with a charge that Lamont, a Civil Liberties di rector, forced giant book-distributor Baker & Taylor to drop the book by threatening suit, a The day that Socialist Norman Thomas made an anti-war talk outside the University of California, his son, Evan, 21, quit Princeton to drive an ambulance for the British in the Near East. sbsb John L Lewis' daughter, Kathryn, refused to talk about a report that she had ditched America First. sbsb The Silver Shirts' goat-bearded William Dudley Pel ley, given a suspended sentence in 1935 for breaking North Carolina's "blue sky" stock law, surrendered to Buncombe County, N.C.

authorities on charges that he violated his parole. 11 Given a 60-day suspended sen tence last month for disorderly conduct, Fascist Joseph E. McWilliams (head of the "American Destiny" Party) went back to jail in Manhattan for violating his parole by making more anti-Semitic speeches.

Ink & Tears

Expense accounts from NRA heydays rose to haunt high-flying Columnist General Hugh S. Johnson, his son Major Kilbourne, his secretary Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson. The President vetoed a bill to validate old payments to the three for excess traveling expenses in 1933-34. Unless the Senate overrides the veto the General owes the Government $1,868.61, the Major $3,335, Robbie, $57.19 sbsb Bird-wise Quiz Kid Gerard Darrow wept remorsefully as he taxied to an Audubon Society meeting in Chicago, where he knew he would meet Columnist John Kieran, Information Pleaser. Nine-year-old Gerard, who wrote a scathing review of Kieran's Nature Notes (TIME, April 14), took it all back, said he really thought the book was wonderful. sbsb In Manhattan, Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis made his Broadway debut as director and angel of the season's quickest flop: one performance. Critics called Good Neighbor "immensely dull." Said stage-struck Lewis who lost $25,650: "They were right. When you get that universal a comment there is no use fighting it."

Pianist Yaltah Menuhin, 20, Violinist Yehudi's youngest sister, eloped to Reno from her parents' home in Los Gatos, Calif., with Private Benjamin Rolfe, 27. Yaltah, who divorced Attorney William Stix last year, soon parted with her groom who returned to Fort Ord to be tossed into the guardhouse for going AWOL. Papa Menuhin withheld his blessing, explained: "It will take time to swallow and digest the news." Private Rolfe, unabashed and "utterly unmusical," declared: "There is enough musical genius in that family already."

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