Roses All the Way

Herbert Bayard Swope, longtime associate of Bernard Baruch, got the Medal for Merit from General Dwight D. Eisenhower while, for a change, much-honored Baruch (with Cabinet members, a major general, a brigadier general and two lieutenant generals) stood on the sidelines.

One-third of the U.S. Supreme Court--Fred M. Vinson, Stanley E. Reed and Wiley Rutledge, all Kentuckians--prepared to go to Louisville this week, all to get honorary LL.D.s from the University of Louisville Law School.

The late O. Henry (real name William Sydney Porter), father of the high-gear, machine-tooled short-short story, was finally honored with a tangible memorial in the home of his youth, but he had to share it with a salve manufacturer. The memorial: a reproduction, in the Greensboro, N.C., Historical Museum, of the drugstore where the writer (and the salve man) once worked.

Lana Turner, who may play Madame Bovary in the Hollywood version of Flaubert's famed provincial lady, got a well-meant tribute from Columnist Louella Parsons. "Lana," allowed Lolly, ". . . will be a Madame Bovary born to the part."

Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland also had his day of triumph. At the Reading (Pa.) Fair, his 725-lb. boar was champion in the open Hampshire class.

Winston Churchill, to whom admiring South Australian livestock men had sent a pair of white kangaroos, finally got around to the London Zoo in Regent's Park. But when he got there the pen was half-bare. The she-kangaroo had thrown herself against a fence and died.

Margaret Truman, after nerve-racking delay (due to more pressing union business), was accepted as a member of the A.F.L.'s American Guild of Musical Artists.

Ex-Premier Hideki Tojo, still on trial as a war criminal, got a rather wistful new name, now that he had junked Shintoism for Buddhism. The name, to be chiseled on his tombstone: Eishoin Shakuji Komyoro Koji. Approximate English translation: "By Buddha's grace, all sins committed while living are absolved."

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