Down the gangplank of a hospital ship at a West Coast port came hard little Marine Corporal Barney Ross, back from Guadalcanal with a few shrapnel wounds, back to Kaye, the showgirl he married shortly before he went off to war. Off the gangplank, he got down on his hands & knees, kissed the ground. "This I vowed to do if ever I saw American soil again," he explained gravely; "sometimes out there we're not so sure. . . ." Clutching a native-made cane decorated with "real Jap teeth," he told about his blistering nightlong battle in a shell hole (TIME, Dec. 14), described his exhibition bout with a native champ. "It was murderous," said Corporal Ross, referring to the exhibition bout. ". . . This baby didn't mess around, and I was sort of out of practice. Nevertheless, science did the trick and he went to sleep on the deck."

$1,000,000 Correction

A wealthy man is Parliament's tall, bespectacled Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 36-year-old leader of Britain's new share-the-wealth Commonwealth Party. The social-minded M.P. inherited $80,000 when he was 25, owns vast estates that have been in his family for 400 years. Last week he gave the Aclands' 17,000 acres, worth about $1,000,000, to his country, announced that he was without an income other than the $2,400 a year he earns as an M.P. "I shall be a workingman, nothing else," he said proudly, prepared to move into a smaller house.

Family Portrait

Doing fine in a not-so-grand Ottawa house, a handy two blocks from nursery school, was the all-girl family of Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. Princess Beatrix, 5, Princess Irene, 3, were learning to ski. Six-week-old Princess Margriet Francisca was turning out to be a model child. "She is very healthy," said her mother. "She is well-trained and doesn't wake us during the night." Modern royalty's family album got a nicely brushed, fluffed, starched, and beribboned domestic portrait.

Medicine & Morals

Up rose Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, to protest. What vexed him: the British Army has been instructing recruits in prophylaxis against venereal disease. The British Government, extending the campaign, has a regulation, the famed 33-B, calling for treatment of all persons infected with such diseases.

Said the plump, teetotal Primate of All England: "What is primarily a moral problem with a medical aspect," said he, "is being treated as if it were primarily a medical problem with a moral aspect."

All Work & No Pay

Symphony musicians who think they are underpaid should "take over the conduct of Philharmonic orchestras," recommended peppery Sir Thomas Beecham, 63-year-old British symphony conductor who last fortnight married 35-year-old British Pianist Betty Humby. The wealthy laxative heir (Beecham's Pills) told a Manhattan lecture audience that music's future depended on the bounty of the rich. Warning of possible state control over the music world, he forecast that ultimately "an enlightened government will declare that it cannot support such a luxury."

Hearts in the Highlands

The weather in Private William Saroyan's private world was wonderful: The Human Comedy, his first novel, was the new Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller; The Human Comedy, his first movie, had a blinding premiere on Broadway; Carol Marcus, striking 18-year-old actress (in two Saroyan shows), daughter of Bendix Aviation Vice President Charles Marcus, girl friend of Gloria Vanderbilt de Cicco, became Mrs. William Saroyan. They were married in Dayton, where the 34-year-old groom writes training films for the Signal Corps. The ceremony was quiet: so was the unpredictable playwright, who shattered yet another Saroyan precedent, refused to utter a word for publication.

Rewards

In Alaska, to Lieut. Colonel John Stephen Chennault, 29-year-old son of Brigadier General Claire: the D.F.C. for attacking a Jap encampment at Kiska, machine-gunning and probably sinking an enemy submarine.

In Washington, promoted to major less than two years after he was drafted as a private was Captain William McChesney Martin, 36-year-old ex-president of the New York Stock Exchange, now with the services of supply.

Death in Lisbon

The Yankee Clipper, dropping down to a river landing at Lisbon, skimmed the water with a wing tip, suddenly burst into a flower of flame and cut under the surface. Of 39 men & women aboard, 24 were lost. Among the missing: Musicomedienne Tamara (one of a party of USO entertainers), New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ben Robertson. Three of the survivors rescued by trawler crews: Radio Singer Jane Froman, Nightclub Entertainer Gypsy Markoff, William Butterworth, First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Lisbon. Rescued Captain R. O. D. Sullivan, pilot of the ship, had no explanation for the first fatal accident on Pan-American's Atlantic run since 1939-

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