Americana

MANNERS & MORALS

P: In California's Superior Court, Judge Newcomb Condee withheld approval of an estate settlement under which one of the beneficiaries would be a Russian girl. "This court," he warned, "will take judicial notice that Russia is kicking the U.S. in the teeth."

P:Manhattan Milliner Lilly Dache advised U.S. women that their new spring hats, when not being worn, should be put under glass on the mantelpiece or in a frame on the wall. Sighed Mme. Dache, "[The hats] are works of art, and make lovely decoration in the home as well as on the head."

P: New York City's Board of Education announced that student ballplayers broke 176,000 windowpanes during the last academic year, setting the board back $100,000.

P:The Department of Commerce reported that U.S. residents sent $447 million worth of gifts to foreigners in 1947--food, clothing and cash.

P: Sentimental Chicagoans paid $898 to buy up, at auction, the personal belongings of the late "Hinky Dink" Mike Kenna, famed boss of the city's First Ward in its wide-open heyday. Among the items: Hinky Dink's shillelagh, his silk topper, his "last" cigar, an invitation to a dinner for John Pierpont Morgan, 14 flannel nightshirts, a copy of Confessions of a French Stenographer and a lifetime pass to Mullin's Gym. P: Elston T. Adams, of Fort Recovery, Ohio, wrote his Congressman, George Bender, to report that he had signed a petition for Bender's renomination. Bender sent back a thank-you note and asked Constituent Adams if there was anything he could do for him. Adams replied that he needed a pair of pants, either blue or grey, 36 waist, 33 length and cuffed at the bottom. He got two--one blue pair and one grey. P: Swallows began alighting at California's Mission San Juan Capistrano on St. Joseph's Day (March 19)--the date on which, according to the years-old legend, they have always returned from wintering in the South.

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