Fortunes of War

General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Allied Field Commander in western France, and some of his associates,* made hay while the French sun shone (see cut).

General Dwight D. Eisenhower took time out when Lieut. Generals Omar N. Bradley and John C. H. Lee came for a conference. He herded them into the morning sunshine, produced a $400 miniature camera, which he said was made in Czechoslovakia and used by Nazi agents, and snapped their picture.

Marshal Tito sent his three-year-old, battle-worn pistol to New York City's battling Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia--acknowledging the Mayor's message of admiration for the Partisans. The Mayor, a World War I veteran who did not succeed last year in getting a brigadier generalship, expressed his belligerent thanks: "Now that Tito has given me the gun, I hope my own government will give me the opportunity to use it ... before it is too late."

King Leopold III of the Belgians, since 1940 a Nazi prisoner, was reported reunited with his children in Bavaria. From neutral sources came a picture of the royal offspring, taken while they were still happily grouped on the grounds of the Palace of Laeken in Brussels (Josephine Charlotte, 16; Albert, 10; Alexandre Emmanuel, 2--Leopold's only child by his second wife, Marie; Crown Prince Baudouin, 13).

Madame Chiang Kaishek, who arrived in Brazil in July for a three-month "rest-cure," prepared to travel on to the U.S. for "badly needed" medical treatment.

Traces of Sugar

Bing Crosby, in England on a U.S.O. tour, was mobbed by London admirers. He escaped into a restaurant, appeared in an upper window, stopped all traffic by singing Pennies from Heaven.

Louis Untermeyer, 58, unremitting poetaster and anthologist (Modern American Poetry; Modern British Poetry), was sued for separation and alimony by his third wife, who claimed, in affidavits filed with the court, that on their tenth wedding anniversary he had asked for a divorce so he "might marry the woman who had been living with him as his mistress." The woman was identified as a onetime pupil of Untermeyer's. Mrs. Untermeyer charged that her husband had been receiving "vulgar" verse from his former pupil ever since. Mr. Untermeyer said that his new love had revived his poetic inspiration.

John D. Spreckels III, 35-year-old California sugar heir, who was divorced by his first wife in 1936 on the charge that in three years he had lost $50,000 at the races, found his second wife more lenient. She sued for separate maintenance, charged that in three months he had lost $100,000 on the horses.

Loss of Balance

Albert Einstein, vacationing at Saranac Lake, N.Y., went sailing with several friends in an 18-ft. boat, capsized in choppy water, had to be rescued by motorboat.

William Randolph Hearst, who unloaded part of his estimated $15,000,000 to $50,000,000 art collection by over-the-counter sales at Manhattan's Gimbel Bros., lost another estimated $300,000 to $500,000 worth in a fire which destroyed one of the main buildings at Wyntoon, his summer home in McCloud, Calif.

Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood's 59-year-old MGMagnate and No. 1 rumba enthusiast, got thrown from a horse, landed in the hospital with a broken pelvis.

*Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges, U.S. First Army Commander; Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, British Second Army Commander; General Montgomery; Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley, U.S. Twelfth Army Group Commander; Lieut. General H. D. G. Crerar, Canadian First Army Commander.

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