Stylists

Marshal Pietro Badoglio's diplomatic staff, who left Rome in a hurry without their grey-striped trousers, finally got in touch with a tailor. He cut them new pairs from the only cloth he could get: brown-spotted yellow tweed.

Jimmy Savo had articles in both Vogue and Hobo News. Wrote the Italian castle-owning comedian in Vogue: "It is when I look at the map of Italy that I am sad, thinking of the poor mythical people living there in the little town within the walls of my castle." For the Hobo News the classically baggy and disheveled Savo explained: "My suit['s] . . . biggest advantage is that I can turn it into a night kimono after 12."

Winston Churchill, up & about from pneumonia, was asked by General Charles de Gaulle if he still painted. "I am too weak for that sort of thing," said the Prime Minister, "but I am still strong enough to wage war."

John Holmes Overton, Democratic Senator from Louisiana, denounced a contemplated new tax on fur coats, demanded exemption for styles costing under $150. "I'm not talking about the $2,000, $5,000, $10,000 fur garments," he said, "but I'm talking about those cheap little $200 fur coats these poor little working girls have to have as an absolutely necessary item to keep themselves warm as they go to war plants to make munitions."

Dukedom

James H. R. Cromwell's lawyers trained their guns on Doris Duke's Reno divorce decree. In New Jersey's Chancery Court, New Jersey State Senator John E. Toolan, Cromwell attorney, charged that Mrs. Cromwell had 1) slighted her 1940 official duties as U.S. Minister Cromwell's wife at Ottawa, 2) charged falsely that Jimmy was trying to get his hands on a $7,000,000 fund he had disinterestedly urged her to found for the ". . . relief of the underprivileged," and 3) reached "the acme of refined cruelty . . . when Mr. Cromwell's valet . . . was compelled to wait several hours . . . because Mr. Cromwell's bedroom was occupied by his successor in his wife's affections." (Members of Parliament roasted playboy Member Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid for playing with Doris in Hawaii during London's blitz.) Cromwell denied the desertion and cruelty charges on which Doris won her Reno case, demanded that the New Jersey courts nullify the divorce. He also recommended that Doris herself disown it as a fraud.

Musicians

Sir Thomas Beecham suggested to modern composers that they become "more socially stupid" and "intellectually puerile." Lecturing in Manhattan, he feared that the "creative current ... in music is running dry. . . . Let's please pray that our creative artists . . . be outrageous, impractical, impossible . . . but . . . recover their pride in their craft."

Igor Stravinsky conducted his own dissonant version of The Star-Spangled Banner at a highly successful Boston Symphony Orchestra concert. Of the anthem, the Associated Press discreetly noted that the audience's "reaction indicated clearly that the Stravinsky arrangement never would take the place of the more familiar version." But Boston Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan said that the composer would not be fined the statutory $100 for breaking the Massachusetts law forbidding any & all tinkering with the Banner.

Frank Sinatra,* amateur boxer, bought a $10,000 share in a friend who also makes them swoon: heavyweight Pugilist Tami Mauriello.

Agitators

Chandralekha Shukla, 19-year-old Wellesley junior, niece of imprisoned Pandit Nehru of India, where she was once locked up herself, told a Manhattan reporter: "I suppose I should be glad I went to jail, because I got an A for some character studies at Wellesley as a result of having observed people closely while there."

Orson Welles recuperated with Rita Hayworth Welles (see cut) at Miami Beach--he from jaundice, she from the flu. Restless Actor-Director Welles said he had definitely added politics to his interests, reminded the press that he was Chairman of the Action Committee of the American Free World Association.

Fiorello LaGuardia, who last year raged at Flying Fortress Pilot Jack W. Watson's stunting over the World Series game at the Yankee Stadium, sent Lieut. Watson an "all is forgiven." Watson had brought his blazing, crippled "Meat-hound" back to England after nine crew members bailed out. Said he of the Mayor's forgiveness: "That's good. As long as he's happy, that's the big thing."

Private Frederick Cecil ("Freddie") Bartholomew, onetime child film star turned student mechanic (see cut) at Amarillo's Army Air Field, turned civilian again. Reason for his medical discharge: an old back injury.

*For other news of Swoonster Sinatra, see p. 78.

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