Hands across the Sea

Bess Truman, who has not yet been labeled pink, white, or red by the Russophobe press,, calmly accepted membership in a new organization set up to replace books destroyed by the Nazis in Russia. Her jawbreaking title: Honorary Chairman of the English Classics Collection of Books for Russian War Relief.

Charlie Chaplin, in the midst of thorny court troubles at home, suddenly got a red, red rose from abroad. Russian and Czech cinemen sent him a telegram expressing "deep respect to you . . . who . . . have always defended the principles of humanism."

Frank Sinatra got a cuffing from Stars & Stripes, which resented disparaging cracks he had made about the shows put on by the Army's Special Services and the U.S.O. Maybe, said S & S coldly, Frankie was just tired when he made the cracks: "He had just finished seven grueling weeks overseas, during which he sang several times every day."

Marjorie Lawrence, blonde operatic soprano stricken by infantile paralysis four years ago, arrived by plane in Germany after a swing through the Pacific, set out for a singing tour of British camps, still confined to her wheel chair.

Playtime

Judge Thurman Arnold and U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark, virtually down to the raw at a politicos' outing near Washington, treated photographers to the kind of pose that was a prewar classic of the silly season (see cut).

Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's teetotalism, the town of Newport, England decided, is his own personal business. The Town Council rejected a proposal that all Newport citizens stick to orangeade and lemonade during the Marshal's visit there this month.

King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose appeared at London's New Theater, TIME, JULY 23, 1945 laughed royally at L'Impromptu de Versailles, Moliere's snicker at the artificiality of France's 17th-Century court.

Zone of Quiet

Colonel James Roosevelt, on active duty with the Marines since 1940, arrived at the Naval hospital in San Diego for a "rest and routine checkup" after seven months in the Philippines.

Louis P. Lochner, 58-year-old dean of A.P. newsmen in Germany, got a major bumping and minor injuries when a jeep he was riding in Berlin hit a Russian truck.

Marlene Dietrich, landing in Manhattan after an eleven-month-long U.S.O. tour of Europe, told reporters that she now looked forward to "a complete overhauling."

Homebodies

Donna Rachele Mussolini, Benito's 56-year-old widow, now at the Terni internment camp under British protection, confessed that she wanted to bring up her children in the U.S. and might make some money lecturing: "We should have gone to America when we first got married. We planned to do it. . . . But then Mussolini changed his mind."

The Diligent! Quintuplets* -- Carlos Alberto, Maria Ester, Maria Cristina, Maria Fernanda and Franco--emerged with a scrubbed-face bang from their well-preserved privacy. Occasion: their second birthday, energetically celebrated (see cut) at their home in Buenos Aires.

Saburo Kurusu, "peace" envoy to the U.S. when Pearl Harbor was attacked, is now "busily engaged in tilling his garden" in the mountain town of Karuizawa, said Radio Tokyo.

Patrick Henry's home, "Red Hill" in Virginia, was taken over by the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation for $60,000, in a settlement of the estate of the patriot's great-granddaughter, Mrs. Matthew Bland Harrison.

Faye Emerson, cinemactress wife of Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt, chatting cozily with the New Deal-hating New York Daily News, displayed some of the birthday gifts Elliott had given her--a pearl pin encrusted with diamonds and rubies; earrings to match; a gold cigaret lighter. Her hair had been blonde, long and straight, but: "I had it cut and now it's dark and short and curly, and nearly everyone thinks that Elliott's being unfaithful."

Their births were quietly registered in separate places; they were first legally declared quintuplets last April.

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