Plans & Promises

The Duke & Duchess of Windsor, bidding farewell to the people of the Bahamas in a joint three-minute broadcast, made a promise: "You have not seen the last of us ... au revoir."

Eleanor Roosevelt announced that she will live in a two-story frame cottage at the eastern end of her 900-acre Hyde Park estate, rather than in the 40-room "Big House." Her reason: "It is simpler and easier." Another reason: privacy--the cottage is almost two miles from the mansion, which eventually will be opened to the public as a national shrine.

Humphrey Bogart, Hollywood's favorite Dead End kid (45), made it official: he will marry slow-burning Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, 20, his co-star in two pictures (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep). When: as soon as his third wife, Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot, serves her six weeks Reno residence for a divorce. Where: the Ohio farm of friend Louis Bromfield.

Money Matters

Gloria Vanderbilt Stolcowslci, filling out papers for her visit south of the border with Husband Leopold Stokowski, listed her occupation as housewife. In Los Angeles, the Bank of America turned over to Gloria's just-discarded first husband, Pasquale di Cicco, a $200,000 slice of her $4,500,000 inheritance (Pat's first wife, the late, blond comedienne Thelma Todd, bequeathed him $1 in 1935).

Henry Morgenthau Sr., veteran financier and diplomat (Ambassador to Turkey, 1913-16), made his annual birthday prediction: "Billions in unused resources are going to start us off on a real era of prosperity" at war's end. On his 80th birthday, nine years ago, he predicted that his son, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., would balance the budget by 1940.

War & Peace

William ("Billy") Lendrum Mitchell, whose ardent advocacy of U.S. air power led to his court-martial for "insubordination" in 1926 and demotion from brigadier general to colonel, was posthumously voted (by the U.S. Senate) the Congressional Medal of Honor, promotion to the rank of major general.

Alfred Noyes, British poet (The High wayman) now living in California, advised San Francisco conferees to renounce power politics for "the religion of unselfish love. God help us if we reach a stage in which our plumbing is perfect but in which the human soul atrophies." Colonel Robert S. Allen, onetime co-columnist with Drew Pearson (Washing ton Merry-Go-Round), lost his lower right arm by amputation after being wounded in Germany, captured, freed three days later by advancing GIs.

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