Kings

Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia gave President Roosevelt (through visiting Princes Feisal and Khalid) a three-foot sword with a diamond-studded grip and curved blade of Damascus steel.

George VI of England gave "the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad" a four-foot, two-handed sword with a double-edged blade, a chased silver crosspiece, a grip wrapped in 18-carat gold wire, a pommel of rock crystal.

Blonde, Redheads, Brunette

Ginger Rogers was fashionable Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski's idea of the ideal model for a statue of the typical woman defense worker. He put her into plaster, standing on a pile of gears with a baby in one arm, a monkey wrench in the other. In her next movie, Lovet-Lorski's typical woman defense worker plays a typical woman defense worker.

Yung Wang, button-cute "Helen Hayes of China," was studying at Bryn Mawr. At 26, the prewar cinema star had an age of peril behind her. She had been caught by the Jap invasion of Hong Kong, slipped out disguised as a ragged halfwit, ultimately made a 40-day hairbreadth journey to the safety of Chungking. For two years she had entertained troops, lived in the front lines, traveled on foot with a force that moved so exclusively at night that it became known as "The Cat's Eye Army." But last week at Bryn Mawr she still looked like a child.

Veronica Lake and her three-year husband, Major John Detlie of the Army Engineers, decided to get divorced. The honey-haired refugee from the peek-a-boo explained: "We just don't think alike."

Gracie Fields, back from a road-show tour of the Mediterranean, reported that she had found a place where silk stockings are sold. The place: Catania. She said the Sicilian storekeepers have whipped the hose out of secret places after two years of hiding them from the Germans.

Local Lords

Governor Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma got a letter from a New York City woman who said it had been 29 years since she tasted sorghum molasses. She now wanted the name of somebody who would sell her half a gallon. The Governor announced to the press that it so happened, by George, that he was going to New York this week and he would personally deliver an entire gallon.

Governor Dwight P. Griswold of Nebraska, who had bravely wagered a hog with each of 27 other governors that Nebraska would outdo their states in the war-bond drive, was finally snatched off his hotspot by thoughtful friends. They bought 26 hogs at a livestock show, gave them to him. He may be ahead of the game. After shipping twelve hogs, he decided to postpone the rest of his pay-offs until the Treasury issued its final figures.

Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York City, driving along the water front to work, spied a crowd, characteristically jumped out and shouldered his way through to see what was up, found a couple of sailors slugging each other, promptly broke it up, went on to his office.

Plushy Set

Lieut. Colonel Serge Obolensky, top-ranking extra-man of Manhattan, parachuted into Sardinia a few days after he had been seen waltzing (in his paratroop boots) at the St. Regis. The 52 -year-old ex-Russian Prince, ex-husband of Vincent Astor's sister Alice, dashing host at borsch-and-balalaika parties, was disclosed to have led four U.S. officers and men in a jump that established first contact be tween U.S. headquarters and Italian troops on the island.

The late Edward T. Stotesbury's giant Philadelphia home, Whitemarsh Hall (145 rooms, 45 baths, 14 elevators), was sold for an undisclosed price to the Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co., which will use it as a research laboratory. The financier's widow closed the place up after his death in 1939, last year gave its two-mile fence to the war scrap collection -- enough steel for some 18,000 machine guns.

Lele Daly Djamgaroff Wells Ford, thrice-married widow of Copper Heir Marcus Daly Jr., was still the wife of Roe Wells so far as a Chicago judge was concerned. He canceled her July divorce from Wells, an ex-officer of the Doughnut Corp. of America, on the ground that it had been obtained by collusion when she failed to appear at a, hearing. Thirteen days after she had thought she was divorced, she had married Standard Oilman Richard F. Ford. Last week she decided she had better appeal the cancellation fast.

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