Affairs of State

Governor James H. ("Jimmie") Davis of Louisiana, backwoodsy singer-composer (You Are My Sunshine), found half an hour in his weekly gubernatorial schedule to take up where he left off when he turned statesman. Baton Route's radio station WJBO announced a regular Saturday night

Sunshine Barn Dance broadcast, featuring the Governor and his hillbilly band.

Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Tory newspaper tycoon and Lord Privy Seal in Churchill's Cabinet, drew rude sounds from his ex-crony, ex-employe Michael Foot. Said ex-Beaver Boy Foot, who now wears the workingman's collar of London's Laborite Daily Herald: ''Lord Beaverbrook . . . believes in the empire. He's sincere on the subject to the point of incoherence. The only trouble is that the empire doesn't believe in Lord Beaverbrook. . . . He's the old maid of politics."

Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York was the subject of the latest Roman rumor: he would be made a cardinal next fall, then papal Secretary of State. Archbishop Spellman served in the secretariat for seven years--two of them while Pope Pius XII was papal Secretary of State.

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