Scrawny, Negrophilous, bohemian Lady Nancy Cunard, of the British shipping family, persistently blocked from leftist wartime work in Paris, finally became exasperated, shrilled at nagging critics: "Do you realize that you are talking to the representative of 56 world-wide Negro newspapers?"

Aged (81), eccentric New York Lawyer Samuel Untermyer had the gardener on his Yonkers estate rig up an ingenious apparatus to infuse his honeydew and casaba melons with benedictine, port, and brandy while they are still on the hot-house vine, hopes to sample the non-intoxicating but liquor-flavored fruit next month.

In Manhattan the President and Board of Directors of Rockefeller Center, Inc. mailed out big 11" x 8 1/2"), formal, engraved invitations requesting "the honour of your presence at a ceremony in the course of which Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. will drive the last rivet [of silver alloy] in the fourteenth and final building of Rockefeller Center on Wednesday afternoon, November first. ..."

In the public notice column of the New York Herald Tribune appeared three lines: "I am no longer responsible for any debts incurred by my wife. . . ." It was signed by Franklin Laws Hutton, father of Woolworth Heiress Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, concerned his second wife, Irene Curley Bodde Hutton. Meanwhile, back to the U. S. for a home-made divorce came Daughter Barbara and her son Lance, whose ship companions included legally separated Husband Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and Barbara's rumored choice for a third husband, Robert Sweeny, amateur golfer & investment broker. On the dock Countess Barbara was greeted by pickets of Woolworth stores from the C. I. O. United Retail and Wholesale Employes of America, bearing such signs as "Babs, we live on $15.60 a week. Could you?" "Babs flees Europe for peace. What about peace for the union?" Piqued, Barbara said: "Welcome home, I don't think." Said Robert Sweeny, "Oh, this is all very uh."

Peppy, pottering Dr. Herbert Putnam, 78, longtime head of the Congressional Library at Washington, D.C. (now librarian emeritus), was given the J. W. Lippincott Award ($500) for distinguished service in librarianship, in accepting told the American Library Association, outspoken opponent of President Roosevelt's selection of Poet Archibald MacLeish to succeed him, that as a Scot, poet, humanist, lawyer, soldier, and orator, Poet MacLeish was a fine man to be Congressional Librarian.

Great, retired Symphonist Karl Muck, wartime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who was locked up as an enemy alien during World War I, on his 80th birthday in Berlin received from Adolf Hitler the Plaque of the German Eagle.

Interviewed on her 75th birthday as she sat on a sofa draped with a tiger skin in her pink-walled London apartment, Elinor ("It") Glyn, British novelist who writes nowadays only when she has "passionate thoughts that will help humanity," explained: "I have an immense passion for tigers. When I go to a zoo I have a most peculiar effect on them."

Toothy, swagger-minded Grover Whalen, president of New York's World's Fair, in Europe on a busman's holiday, attended the Swiss National Exposition.

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