Intake & Outgo

Jean Sibelius, popular giant among living composers (Finlandia), got a $1,680 annual pension from the Finnish Government. Occasion: his Both birthday.

Rudolf Hess, standing trial for his life at Nuernberg (see INTERNATIONAL), got a sort of bon voyage package from, a German woman, who sent it "because we are both vegetarians." The goodies: four pretzels, one bottle of celery juice.

Lieut-General James H. Doolittle, trail-blazing bomber of Tokyo, prepared to adjust himself to a down-to-earth, white-collar job with Shell Union Oil Corp. Prewar manager of a Shell subsidiary's aviation department, he will return as vice president.

Irvin S. Cobb's 19-year-old granddaughter, Patricia Chapman, broke into the movies as a harem queen. For career purposes she had changed her last name to Cobb, her first to Buff, and was practically down to it (see cut).

Marion Davies, ex-cinemablonde, longtime friend of William Randolph Hearst, had some props from her Santa Monica cabana auctioned in Manhattan. Item: 18th-Century tea& -chocolate set, $1,150. Item: gilded silver dessert service, $3,000. Total, take on furniture, china, silver and rare books: $204,764.

Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, satyr-bearded British philosopher, philosophically braved a ghost-ridden bed with Britain's No. 1 ghost investigator Harry Price, came through O.K. (see below).

Family Circle

Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles called it a day, after two years, three months and one daughter, but badly botched the traditional (in Hollywood) public announcement. Five days after Rita had promised a full-dress joint explanation, husband & wife had still not made one.

Jack-of-all-theatrics Welles had courted Actress Hayworth through an interlude of tent-showmanship (he sawed her in half nightly). Both had been married before, he to Virginia Nicholson, who divorced him in 1940, she to Oilman Edward Judson, whom she divorced in 1942.*

The bust-up got Actor-Producer Welles into the Hearst papers, which had virtually ignored him since his 1941 Citizen Kane cinemaversion of "the chief." Now Hearst-ling Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons recalled aloud that "many people resented Welles, a civilian, cutting in on ... Coast Guardsman Victor Mature," hummed sadly to her readers that "Rita tried hard to make a go of this marriage. . . ."

General Fulgencio Batista, vacationing ex-dictator of Cuba, met his elaborate new wife in Manhattan (see cut) eight days after their marriage by proxy--he in Mexico City, she in Havana. Also in Manhattan: recently divorced Elisa Godinez y Gomez de Batista, the General's No. 1.

Adolph B. Spreckels Jr., playful, wife-collecting sugar heir, was sued for $260,000 by his ex-friend Beatrice Webb, a dancer. At various times before his fifth marriage last September to Model Kay Williams, complained Miss Webb, he beat her, booted her, pulled out her hair, splashed her with rubbing alcohol and tried to set her afire, pounded her head on the floor, tried to bomb her with an explosive pen, and left her with two broken ribs and a fractured coccyx. She stuck to him for nearly ten months, said she, because he always said he was sorry afterward. "He didn't mean it, though," she added.

The Literary Life

Robert Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago, who believes that a right good education can be packed into less than a five-foot shelf, picked the world's "ten greatest books" for readers of the Chicago Daily News. His list: Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics & Politics, Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, St. Augustine's City of God, Aquinas' Treatise on God & Treatise on Man, Dante's Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's Works, Pascal's Meditations, Tolstoy's War & Peace. He did not list the Bible, explaining, "I assume it."

Byron Price, ex-newsman, ex-Director of Censorship, Wabash College '12, was taken on by President Eric Johnston as vice president of the ex-Hays office.*

Andre Maurois, best-selling litterateur (Ariel, Byron, The Art of Living), wartime French refugee in Manhattan, and more popular abroad than in France, prepared to move west, to teach at Kansas City U. Subject: European novelists.

Lin Yutang had finally realized his ambition and dream--a "practical" Chinese typewriter. Soon to be marketed was his long-gestated brainchild, a 64-key affair with "a theoretical total of 90,000 characters,/- including . . . many new, weird combinations." Declared best-selling Lin happily: the machine was "adequate for all commercial and literary purposes."

Hands Across the Sea

Eleanor Roosevelt, exercising her conversational right as a private citizen, reminisced about a former house guest. Said she of Mme Chiang Kai-shek: "She is two different people. She could talk very convincingly about democracy and its aims and ideals and be perfectly charming, but she hasn't any idea how to live it." A couple of days later, she explained in her column that she had not meant to criticize Mme Chiang, but just to illustrate the state of democracy in China.

Maurice Chevalier, longtime darling of Paris music halls, seven-year darling of Hollywood (1928-35), said he was coming to Broadway in February. He had just been okayed (for the third time) as a French patriot. Embraced by the underground in 1944, cleared as a collaborationist by the Government last September, he was now cleared by the National Committee of the Theatrical Purge.

Breaks & Repairs

General George S. Patton Jr., riding in an Army Cadillac to a pheasant-shoot near Mannheim, Germany, was crashed into by an Army truck, wound up in a Heidelberg hospital, his spine fractured, his body partly paralyzed. Wife Beatrice flew from Washington to the bedside of the 60-year-old veteran of World War I and II and many a personality battle.

Admiral Jean-Francois Dorian's 61-year-old widow, Berthe, still in & around Warm Springs, Ga., with partly paralyzed son Alain, bought slippers for a gift, tried them on, promptly slipped, crashed, broke her elbow.

King Gustav of Sweden, in shape after a fortnight's illness, at 87 was playing his old game: tennis (indoors).

*And started paying him $12,000 not to talk about her.

* Will Hays was Wabash, '00.

/-By permutations & combinations.

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