Names

To the colors of their embattled countries last week flocked millions of little names, dozens of big. Some of the latter:

Sir Frederick Banting, University of Toronto's professor of medical research and co-discoverer with John Macleod of insulin; as an officer in the 15th General Hospital, Canadian Army Medical Corps. In World War I Researcher Banting was wounded at Cambrai, France, won the Military Cross.

Alastair Francis Buchan, 21, and John Buchcm, 27, Oxford-bred sons of Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan); respectively as a Princess Louise's Dragoon Guard, a Governor-General's Footguard.

John Gielgud, willowy portrayer of historic neurotics (Hamlet, Richard II).

The Duke of Windsor, as Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal, Marshal of the Royal Air Force. King George VI sent a personal emissary to Cannes to invite him and the woman he thought worth a throne to come home, sent a destroyer to a secret Channel port to fetch him. The Duke & Duchess of Kent offered him their town house. But this did not mean that the royal family planned to take the unroyal Duchess to its bosom.

Tommy Farr, battered, cocky, onetime British heavyweight champion; in the Royal Air Force.

> Sir George ("Geordie") Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duke of Sutherland, big-gaming, yachting, land-rich peer, who abandoned a Kodiak bear-hunting junket, headed his yacht Sans Peur (Without Fear) toward home and war service.

Paul Gurtler, Sudeten-born Canadian citizen and, during World War I, immediate superior (sergeant) of a wispy corporal named Adolf Hitler; as a Canadian private.

> Gerald Balding, high-goal polo player, who was to have played in next week's open championships at swank Meadow Brook Club, L. I., reported to the British Embassy in Washington for instructions.

> Jack Mylong Muenz, Yiddish Clark Gable of pre-Nazi Germany, leading man in one of Greta Garbo's first starring films (UFA's Streets of Sorrow), lately guide in the New York World's Fair Palestine Pavilion, sought passage to Palestine where he will join the Jewish Legion. An eye-witness to Hitler's 1923 beer-hall Putsch, Actor Muenz gibed: "I was in the street when the machine guns began to fire. Immediately Hitler was down on his face. His General, Franz Ritter von Epp, got disgusted and shouted: 'What's the matter with you? You are supposed to be a soldier. Stand up. The people want to see you. . . .' [Hitler] was a simple, very simple, sick, no crazy man. ... I'd love to kill him."

Count Antoine de Saint Exupery, novelist (Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars), War I veteran and France's No. 1 airman; as a French Army pilot.

Baron Robert de Rothschild, scion of France's famed Jewish banking family, director of its two biggest railways.

Francis David Langhorne Astor, 27, son of Virginia-born Lady Nancy Astor. Already serving were sons Michael, William Waldorf, John Jacob. Said Lady Astor (whose gas mask contains a compartment for lipstick and compact): "I know what the horrors of war are, for I went through the last one when my boys were children. But they are men now."

Twenty World's Fair midgets, who registered for German military duty with Manhattan's German Consulate. Cracked an observer: "They'd be hard to hit."

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