Hedy Lamarr returned to Hollywood from a two-weeks vacation with husband No. 3, Cinemactor John Loder, announced that she was expecting her first child about the middle of June.

Linda Darnell, who in six years of Hollywood fame has played many svelte sophisticates (Summer Storm, Daytime Wife), finally reached 21. Hearing that the Hays office had been killing her pin-up pictures, she remarked: "That's one difference being 21 makes. I don't believe they've paid attention to me before.''

Kyra Nijinsky, almond-eyed, 30-year-old dancing daughter of the fabulous Vaslav Nijinsky,* having survived two Nazi imprisonments, was holding ballet classes for WACs in Florence.

Hortense McQuarrie Odium, able board chairman and ex-president of Manhattan's swank women's specialty store, Bonwit Teller, ex-wife of Financier Floyd Odium, resigned her chairmanship. Mrs. Odium (who sent sales up from $3,500,000 to $10,000,000 while president) said: "I am not a business woman. . . ."

Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, vacationing in the U.S. before leaving for the Pacific, received several new attentions. At the University of New Mexico, he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters; in Manhattan, Sculptor Jo Davidson completed his bust of Pyle; in Washington, Sculptor Max Kalish prepared to do a statue of Pyle for the Smithsonian Institution's Living Hall of Washington TIME, Oct. 2).

Captain Burgess Meredith was placed on inactive duty by the U.S. Army, assumed the role of Columnist Ernie Pyle in a Hollywood version of Pyle's best seller, Here Is Your War.

Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City's bustling Mayor, acted as porter for a porterless woman at LaGuardia Field. Said she: "... a high compliment. . . . He is a perfect gentleman."

Major Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., 44, thrice-married motorcar heir, was busy last week with a full program of marital madcapping. After days of long-distance objections (Stamford, Conn, to Denver) to the proposed marriage of his son, Corporal H. E. Dodge III to Margery Gehman, redheaded daughter of a University of Buffalo professor, he announced that he would attend as best man, arrived in Denver 48 hours late, having missed plane connections. Sitting on her lap, he gave his blessing to his new daughter-in-law, told reporters he was in love with 2nd Lieut. Cara Tinsley, an Army nurse now in England. Said he: "She's just perfect." He also heard that his ex-wife No. 3, Martha ("Mickey") Devine, onetime Vanities girl, had been sued by her ex-lawyer for failing to pay his fees for arranging the divorce which netted her "close to" $1,000,000 from Major Dodge. The lawyer claimed her debt was $120,994, asked the New York State Supreme Court to attach her jewelry--estimated value, $250,000.

Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 44, shy, soldierly tallest Prince of the House of Windsor, got a double promotion from his older brother, King George VI, who made him a general in the British Army, an air chief marshal in the R.A.F.

Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 42, peacetime Manhattan socialite and world-touring big-game hunter, was hailed by the Nazis as the "first American woman" captured on the western front when she fell into enemy hands in Wallendorf, where she was working with a service organization. Daughter of the late millionaire rug maker John Sanford, in 1929 she explored the Mountains of the Moon, Ethiopia, with Sidney and Morris Legendre, Princeton athletes (1925) and sportsmen. She brought back wild Yaha hunting dogs, then married Sidney Legendre, now a Navy lieutenant commander, who last week was in Washington on leave from Pacific duty.

* Nijinsky, confined to a Swiss insane asylum in 1919 when he was 29, was reported well on his way to recovery in 1940, was released and went to Budapest, where he suffered a relapse.

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