The Voice of Experience

Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville, separated from wife No. 8, vowed his next would be "a wise, mature woman, someone like Ava Gardner, or Paulette Goddard." Meanwhile, Manville said he was using his spare time planning a new question & answer television show on the problems of modern living.

Britain's Lord Craigavon, who recently led more than 1,500 people to Canterbury Cathedral on a pilgrimage of prayer against Communism, signed one of the stiffest protest petitions yet leveled against Dr. Hewlett ("The Red Dean") Johnson. Said the letter: "As loyal Christians, we do believe that it is impossible to serve two masters, and so we must ask you now to dissociate yourself from Communism or else to resign from the office of Dean of Canterbury . . ." Dr. Johnson had "no comment."

In Washington, Tallulah Bankhead explained her education: "Daddy let me quit school at 15. He didn't see any sense to my trying to learn algebra when I wanted to go on the stage. He said if I knew Shakespeare and the Bible and how to shoot craps, I had a liberal education."

Beauty & Health

In Arrowhead Springs, Calif., Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren, 17, youngest daughter of California's Governor Earl Warren, showed photographers how much she had progressed since her polio attack last year. After painful practice, she was able to take a few steps. The governor himself decided that some baths in the springs' mineral-rich mud were just the thing for the neuritis in his right arm.

The Metropolitan Opera faced up to losing its greatest soprano. Nearing the end of a brilliant season, after a ten-year absence, Kirsten Flagstad at 55 felt that the strain of rehearsals and acting was just too much. After a London performance next fall of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, she plans to close out her 38-year operatic career to follow the life of the concert stage. Met Manager Rudolf Bing still hoped to change her mind.

In Rochester, N.Y., federal Food & Drug agents seized 108 quarts of blackstrap molasses along with 25 copies of Gayelord Mauser's popular diet book, Look Younger, Live Longer, in which the fashionable dietician touts his perfect health menus of wheat germ, yogurt, brewer's yeast and blackstrap molasses. The food men, taking a dyspeptic view of the perfect-health approach, charged that Hauser was violating the pure food laws, particularly with his claim that blackstrap would prevent menopausal difficulties, constipation, heart trouble, neuritis, also induce sleep and help grow hair.

Vice President Alben W. Berkley gave readers of Life and Health magazine his remedy for keeping fit: plenty of fresh air, exercise, moderate eating. Wrote the Veep: "I have never had a headache in my life ... I have never had indigestion in my life. My digestive organs have been as efficient and as regular as a Seth Thomas clock in its halcyon day."

The Way Things Are

Still walking his daily mile across a Princeton meadow to the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein quietly approached his 72nd birthday. Looking more than ever like a benign, wise old sea lion, he was too busy working on new problems to take much note of the churning outside world which he has helped to change so much.

Temperance workers in St. Joseph, Mo. had a bone to pick with the city library. Because she was pictured packing a bottle of wine with the other goodies for her grandmother, Little Red Riding Hood was a bad "influence to very small children," and should be censored.

Prime Minister Clement Attlee faced the prospect of seeing the women of Britain wearing one of his doodles. A button-maker, entranced by a reproduction of one of the Prime Minister's parliamentary pen-musings, enthusiastically ordered his staff to cut dies of the Attlee doodle-pattern, turn out at least 20,000 gross of buttons in all colors and sizes for the spring trade.

Charging cruelty, Minnewa Bell Ross won an uncontested divorce from her third husband, told friends she will soon become the fourth wife of Elliott Roosevelt and settle down with him in a new home on the Florida keys.

On a tour of the Korean front, American Legion Commander Erie Cocke Jr. suffered a sprained back when his jeep pulled out to pass a convoy, turned turtle, rolled down a 15-foot bank. Later, he felt chipper enough to spend an hour and 45 minutes with General MacArthur "filling him in" on U.S. affairs.

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