Hot Water

Leo ("Lippy") Durocher, umpire-eating manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was charged with felonious assault on a fan who gave Lippy a piece of lip from the stands. Fan John Christian charged that Durocher and a ball-park guard gave him a working-over after Christian had shouted "Bum" and "Crook!"

SimOn Patino, Bolivia's eightyish, enormously wealthy "Tin King," was sued in Manhattan for $500,000 by his godchild, French-born Suzanne Auclert Roth, 24. Her charge: Patino, worth an estimated $500 million, had promised her $1,000 a month for the rest of her life as "a social companion . . . always to be at his beck and call." But, she complained, he stopped beckoning--and the payments--in 1942.

Emil Jennings, back in U.S. pictures with a difference, was photographed at his villa in St. Wolfgang, Austria, as he played a familiar role for a new audience. To Allied questioners, the top-ranking Nazi actor-director explained that he made an anti-British film because Goebbels forced him to. Jannings, who once specialized at playing disintegrating old men, was beginning to look the part (see cut).

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