Time for a Change

Helen Traubel, Bruennhildean prima donna, was presented with a seven-year-old white stallion, White Ghost, by Circus Czar Robert Ringling, promptly cast him as "Grane" in the Metropolitan Opera's Goetterdaemmerung. The horse, a professional dancer, found nothing in Wagner to make him kick up his heels.

Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York and 1944 GOPresidential nominee, became a full-fledged farmer. The tenant-operator of "Dapplemere," his Pawling, N.Y. country place, sold the Governor all his stock and equipment, including 80 head of cattle.

The Strenuous Life

Leo McCarey, handsome, Irish writer-director who won two 1944 Hollywood Oscars for Going My Way, was booked in Los Angeles on a drunken driving charge, jailed for 5 1/2 hours, released on $250 bail, ordered to appear for trial April 25. His description on the police blotter: "belligerent."

King Gustaf of Sweden, 86, who has played tennis indoors two or three times a week all winter, celebrated his new title as Sweden's longest-reigning monarch (37 years, 3 months, 24 days) by arranging an outdoor match at Drottningholm Castle.

Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York City's furious duck of a mayor, did an unwitting disservice to Hugo LaGuardia, 17 (no kin), when Hugo was arrested for playing catch with a glass plate at Coney Island. Hugo paid a fine of $3 ($2 more than his pitching partner) because, as the judge put it: "Any man who has the family name of LaGuardia must be particularly careful of what he does."

Advice from the Experts

Mohandas K. Gandhi, 75, revealed the formula by which he plans to live for another 50 years: plenty of humor, a balanced diet, early to bed & early to rise, no stimulants, "a brake upon impetuosity," resignation to the will of God.

Sergeant Bill Mauldin, whose cartoons of grimy, hard-bitten G.I.s (Up Front With Mauldin) are more popular with G.I.s than with generals (TIME, March 26), was boomed by the Army Times as a delegate to the San Francisco conference.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, late, great Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1902-1932) offered some advice to all youngsters in a letter which was recalled in the Atlantic last week by his biographer, Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus). The letter was written when the Justice was old, alone and with "no one to call him by his first name," to students who wanted to celebrate his goth birthday: "On the eighth of March, 1862 . . . the sloop Cumberland was sunk by the Merrimac, off Newport News. The vessel went down with her flag flying--and when a little later my regiment arrived . . . I saw the flag still flying above the waters. . . . It was a lifelong text for a young man. Fight to the end and go down with your flag at the peak."

In & Out of the Red

Robert Emmet Sherwood, moose-tall (6 ft. 7 in.) playwright (Idiot's Delight, etc.), more recently a Government employe (OWI and ghost writing for Franklin Roosevelt), returned from a seven-weeks look at the Pacific war for the Navy to explain why he is going back to playwriting : "After five years or more in public service, I'd like to start making a little money."

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's clam-like, bachelor Prime Minister, was asked by Maxime Raymond, leader of Quebec's British-hating Bloc Populaire: how much did Canada have to pay for last September's six-day Quebec (Churchill-Roosevelt) Conference? The to-the-penny answer: "$214,240.68."

Wystan Hugh Auden, tall, towheaded English-born poet (For the Time Being), was chosen by the American Academy of Arts & Letters to receive its quinquennial Award of Merit Medal and $1,000 cash prize. Not given for any one work, the award lauded "the beauty of his poetry the unusually pungent, satirical style."

All in the Family

Crown Princess Ingrid of Denmark wheeled her eleven-month-old child, Princess Benedikte, along Copenhagen's Amaliegade, leading to the royal palace, was caught between an exchange of bullets by Danish collaborationists and patriots, ducked to safety in the nick of time.

Primo ("Old Satch") Carnera, hulking, ham-handed onetime world's heavyweight boxing champion (1933), was reported arrested in northern Italy, then freed under close Gestapo surveillance. U.S. sports fans raised their eyebrows at the story, which made out hapless Primo an agile hero: Mrs. Carnera had made some anti-Nazi remarks which resulted in a barroom brawl, which resulted in some flattened-out Germans.

Faye Emerson Roosevelt, cinemactress whose marriage to the Franklin Roosevelts' son Elliott has not hurt her Hollywood prospects, was model-of-the-week in her off-the-face Easter bonnet (an inverted oxbow number of artificial flowers which almost hid her blonde hair--see cut). Her mother-in-law, Eleanor Roosevelt, had no new Easter hat.

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