Bought for $150,000 by the U. S. Navy for patrol service was the 267-ft. Hi-Esmaro, palatial $1,250,000 yacht of ailing Asbestos Tycoon Hiram Edward Manville; and for $140,000 the 206-ft Diesel yacht Lotosland, million-dollar pleasure craft of National City Banker Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds. Lotosland's seaplane hoist may prove useful, her pipe organ not.

"Because she has established that a girl can have a career and still be a good wife--but mostly because through her more of the milk of human kindness is available in all quarters than ever before," New York World's Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson bestowed a citation for distinguished service on sleek and sloe-eyed World's Fair cow Elsie.

Down into his fabulous cashless pocket dug the brown hand of shrewd Negro Cultist Major J. ("Father") Divine, and bought a new "heaven": the $500,000, 21-room Tudor mansion once the property of Manhattan Realtor Leo S. Bing, in wealthy Tarrytown, N. Y. Assessed at $169,000, last sold for $27,000, Divine got it for $36,000, will enjoy as one of his nearest neighbors the Duchesse de Talleyrand, formerly Anna Gould, who was reported "pretty angry."

Radiorated U. S. Senator George W.

Morris of Nebraska: "We were alone in his private office . . . before either convention had been held. . . . His face was damp with perspiration that comes from deep thought. ... He said ... 'I have been here seven years. I believe I am entitled to a rest.' I looked upon that benign face . . . and I said: 'Mr. President, you are a soldier ... in command of an unselfish army . . . that believes in happiness for the human race . . . that wants to strike the shackles from human limbs, and make all men happy and free. We cannot give up in the middle of this struggle.' "

Godly, Republican Farmer-Governor Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan refused a $112 AAA check for "not raising something--I don't know what."

Huff-puffed by dazzled Republicans were passages from Henry A. Wallace's Statesmanship and Religion (Round Table Press, 1934; $2): "The only people of this century who seem to have a comparable earnestness [to 16th-Century Reformers Luther, Calvin, Knox] are such men as Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler.*... I am inclined to agree with [British Historian Richard Henry] Tawney and [the late German Economist Max] Weber that capitalism is a rather natural outgrowth of Protestantism; arid I would go farther in saying that socialism, communism and fascism are in turn rather natural developments from capitalism. Spiritually, they are all much alike. Capitalism . . . today commands a material type of religious fervor ... as unreasonable, dogmatic, and theoretical as any long established theology."

On the floor of the U. S. House of Representatives stood an unprecedented group for an unprecedented ceremony: proud young Mrs. Robert Joseph Coar, wife of the Capitol's radio-room chief, fat and pouting four-month-old Robert Jr. in her arms. There, while Alabama's Representative Frank W. Boykin and friends looked on, Grandfather the Rev. Arthur H. Coar of Pembroke, Mass, baptized the child. Whisked out just before Congress convened, Mrs. Coar explained: "We dedicated him to God and his country."

Boston's rich, elderly, widowed and public-spirited Mrs. James Jackson Storrow, sister of the late famed Penologist Thomas Mott Osborne, built an air-raid shelter on her Lincoln estate.

Into the soot-stained armory of the 165th Infantry Regiment ("Old Sixty-ninth"; "the Fighting Irish") in Manhattan strode Christopher Kilmer, 23, married, father of a child. He put on a private's uniform, in the D Company room under a plaque bearing names of regimental dead, including his father, Poet Joyce ("Trees") Kilmer, was sworn in.

At St. Louis airport en route from Seattle to Hyde Park, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt confessed that she had "no idea" whether her husband would win Term III, said of polls: "They mean very little to me."

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