Ear-Appeal

Westbrook Pegler told Phillips Exeter alumni in Manhattan: "I really am not sore at anyone except the common enemy."

I. A. R. Wylie, British novelist now in the U.S., said she was convinced that though "America has had an uneasy feeling about war, she will be much happier for the experience."

Mayor Carl Zeidler of Milwaukee plumped for he-mannish nattiness in city employes, declared: "Government must be sold to the public. What is needed is eye-appeal."

Postmaster Albert Goldman of New York City, official opener of letters-to-Santa Claus, read one that finished: "You better bring all this stuff or I'll beat you to a pulp."

Katharine Cornell, veteran of 25 years on the stage, declared: "I have never made a speech in my life. My voice goes when I try it and my brain goes into complete jelly."

Great Year

Gloria Vanderbilt, 17, got engaged to Pasquale ("Pat") di Cicco, 32-year-old Hollywood actor's agent. Gloria, who comes into $4,000,000 when she reaches 21, returned to the public eye with a splash of party-giving last spring, for the first time since 1934. That year she was the center of a long custody battle between her mother, Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, and her aunt, Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Through last summer and fall she was photographed with a series of escorts that included Cinemactors Bruce Cabot, Randolph Scott, George Montgomery and di Cicco. Her fiance has been married once before: to the late buxom, blonde Cinemactress Thelma Todd, who died of undetermined causes in 1935, a year after their divorce. His father, the late Pasquale Sr., was a Long Island truck gardener known as "the Broccoli King."

The nuptials are set for Christmas.

New Jobs

Madeleine Carroll said she was making her last Hollywood picture for a while, would go home to London in January to do war work. It will be her second trip abroad in the last year or so.

Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) said he was through directing movies for the duration, applied for a Signal Corps commission, expected to be called soon.

Sergeant Henry ("Hank") Greenberg, baseball topnotcher ($55,000 a year), just discharged from the Army as an overage draftee, dropped his baseball plans to re-enter the service.

Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians enlisted in the Naval Reserve, was sworn in by Lieut. Commander Gene Tunney.

Richard Whitney, ex-Stock Exchange president paroled from Sing Sing, turned up at National Fireworks, Inc. (explosives) in West Hanover, Mass., working "as a beginner."

Steve Vasilakos, peanut vendor in front of the White House for 30 years, moved around the corner to make room for the war. His old spot has been blocked off to traffic as a safety precaution.

Mrs. Lytle Hull, the ex-Mrs. Vincent Astor, vice-chairman of the New York State Defense Savings Committee, decided to give everybody the same Christmas present: books of defense saving stamps.

Blackball

Emperor Hirohito will be expelled by Britain as Knight of the Garter, lose his honorary field marshalship in the British Army.

Mr. Moto got the bounce "for the duration" from his creator, Pulitzer Prizewinner John P. Marquand, who commented: "I rather liked him....But now it seems I had him all wrong. A veritable wolf in sheep's clothing...."

Society Note: Sir Oswald Mosley, Britain's No. 1 Fascist, will join his wife, Lady Diana, in new, enlarged jail quarters this week. Lady Diana has done the decorating job, laying carpets and fluffing pillows, and has hired two women prisoners as servants. The nest: an innovation at Holloway Prison--"flatlets" of two adjoining cells for husbands and wives.

Words & Music

Booth Tarkington, 72, makes his debut in dress-shirt music this week when the Indianapolis Symphony and a contralto soloist give Credo--words by Tarkington.

Myra Hess, British pianist now in London, has received 315 birthday greetings by mail since her birthday--last Feb. 25. Mutual friends conspired in a "chain-greeting" plot. Among the conspirators: Lord Halifax, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Thornton Wilder, Albert Einstein.

Vincent Lopez, bandsman and astrology enthusiast: "If the Japanese will study the planets they will see that Japan is the natural ally of the U.S."

Deanna Durbin came out of two months of obscurity to announce that she was going to England with Husband Vaughn Paul to entertain troops and war workers. The 20-year-old singer, who has been idle ever since Universal suspended her in October, said Viscount Halifax had invited her.

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