Care & Feeding

Lady Diana Duff Cooper, one of England's most English beauties, onetime actress (in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle), now wife of the British Ambassador to Algiers, found North African markets poor, promptly borrowed a cow and set it to graze on the grounds of the British Embassy, also populated by two partridges, a gazelle. Lady Diana further astonished Algiers by practicing the dairymaid chore she had learned on her farm in Bognor, England--she milked the cow.

The Andrews Sisters, bawling, hoydenish Queens of the Juke Box, gave their parents, a Minneapolis Greek restaurateur named Andreos, and their Norwegian mother a whopping 32nd-wedding-anniversary present: one-fourth of the singers' earnings for life. At their present drawing power, the gift amounts to over $100,000 a year. Their first hit in 1937 (Bel Mir Bist Du Schon) sold over 125,000 records; they now get $100,000 annual royalty from Decca for their discs, $10,000 a week average for personal appearances.

George Bernard Shaw celebrated his 88th birthday with advice on How to Care for Babies. In the London Times he compared the late Kaiserin Augusta's model Berlin nursery with shanty homes in Ireland's Connemara: "Under the ideal Berlin conditions the infants died like flies while in Connemara there was no [infant] mortality rate because children never died there. . . . The difference was due to the fact that in Berlin the nurses tidied up the children's beds and fed and took their temperatures and weighed and measured them very efficiently . . . whereas in Connemara the mother hugged them, mammocked them, kissed them, smacked them, talked baby talk to them or scolded them; in short, maternally massaged them to their hearts' content."

Concluded G.B.S.: "The Berlin child did not grow up at all or grew up a nervous wreck or a disciplinarian terrorist. The Connemara child grew up humane and healthy but at best a noble savage. The problem is how to produce adults who are both humane and cultivated. Clearly they must have not only the Berlin discipline but the Connemara massage."

Announced last week was the title of Shaw's next book: Everybody's Political What's What?

High Times

General Dwight D. ("Ike") Eisenhower had his best friend by his side for the first time in six months when his black Scotty, Telek, was let out of British rabies quarantine.

Waldo Peirce, grey-bearded, booming impressionist painter (TIME, May 29), journeyed from Bangor, Me. to Manhat tan to receive his $2,500 first prize in Pepsi-Cola's Portrait of America painting contest, first business-sponsored art competition to be judged by prominent artists and esthetes (including Rockwell Kent, Fernand Leger, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh, Max Weber). Peirce's prizewinner: a radiant Maine Swimming Hole. Peirce's comment: "I've already spent the money. ... I like Pepsi-Cola with rum in it.... Now maybe I'll even drink some straight."

Prince Gustaf Adolf, eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince, gave his three young daughters, Princesses Desiree, 6, Birgitta, 7, and Margaretha, 9, the biggest treat of all: the circus (see cut).

Jack Benny, on U.S.O. tour in New Guinea with Cinemarmful Carole Landis, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Songstress Martha Tilton and Accordionist June Bruner, gave out with a few of his well-publicized violin notes for the benefit of a native and the photographers (see cut).

Sick List

Major Randolph Churchill, only son of Britain's Prime Minister and a veteran of a previous British mission to Marshal Tito (see PRESS), flew from Italy to Yugoslavian Partisan headquarters with his good friend Major Evelyn Waugh, satirical English novelist (Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags) and Comman-doman. As the plane neared the field it went into a dive and crashed, killing the five-man crew and two Partisan passengers. Churchill, Waugh, British War Correspondent Philip Jordan and four Russian officers escaped with minor injuries, next day were evacuated by plane to a British hospital in Italy.

Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, gaunt, hard-bitten leader of Carlson's Marine Raiders, just back from Saipan's front line, where he was drilled in the arm and leg by Jap bullets, was visited at a San Diego hospital by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and their eldest son, Colonel James Roosevelt. Said Carlson elsewhere: "I received my first Purple Heart for wounds in action during World War I, in France. If I can just keep them spaced this far apart I'll be all right."

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