A boiled shirt swelling and falling over his Cyclopean chest, Jim Londos (real name: Christopher Theophilus), sometime airplane-spinning wrestling champ, made a debut at Philadelphia's swank Academy of Music with a lecture on wrestling as practiced by the ancients.

Gruff, creaking old (62) Lionel Barrymore heard the Los Angeles WPA Orchestra perform his symphony, Tableau Russe, was so amazed he decided to finish another symphony he started a few years back. Grunted Composer Barrymore, who practices many arts: "It is not only amusing but pleasing to have all this happen at my age."

For outstanding work for labor and national defense Pittsburgh's Junior Chamber of Commerce named C. I. O.'s tough, temperate Philip Murray as its first "Pittsburgh Man of the Year."

Declining the Vichy Government's proffered exemption from its rule that all Jews must surrender State positions, tiny, 81-year-old Philosopher Henri Bergson, member of the French Academy, Nobel Prizeman, author of the theory of creative evolution, resigned from the faculty of the College de France, where he had lectured since 1900.

The 1941 edition of Who's Who (British) listed, among 40,000 "men and women most in the public eye today," Adolf Hitler. Censors permitting, Britons could still reach him by telephone at No. 11 6191; by mail at Wilhelmstrasse 77, Berlin W. 8., or at Ober-Salzberg, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria.

Rich, civic-minded President Judge William Curtis Bok of Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas, who has broken precedents by: 1) refusing to enter the family business (Curtis Publishing); 2) abandoning Main Line Republicanism for the New Deal; 3) hiring out as an Intourist chauffeur in Leningrad, shattered another by becoming the first judge to serve on a Federal jury. Explaining that his calendar was nearly cleared, earnest Judge Bok confided: "I've always wanted to know what went on in the mind of a juror and now is my chance to find out."

Foxy, balding Senator Pat Harrison lost $14 at bridge to a Columbia Broadcasting System official, then bet him $15 to $10 that the Chicago Bears would trim the Washington Redskin footballers--and a further dollar-a-point on the score. Next day he took his cocky pal to the field, gloated as the Bears rioted to a 73-to-0 victory, earned him $83 at the rate of $1.38 for every minute of play.

Leaving Fort Dix, N. J., where he commands the 113th Infantry, Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, who manages the New York Times when he is not managing draftees, headed south for a "refresher" course for National Guard officers at Fort Benning, Ga. Easing himself exhausted onto his cot after a day's refreshment, the Colonel proclaimed: "I wouldn't have missed it."

In 1906 Samuel Spencer, president of Southern Railway System, riding on his railway in Virginia, was killed in a rear-end collision. Last week Ernest E. Morris, president of Southern, was riding on his railroad in Georgia (aboard the Ponce de Leon) when the equalizer bar on a diner up ahead broke. The broken bar hit a frog switch, derailed four Pullmans, hurled the last two official cars off a 20-foot trestle, fractured President Norris' skull and left leg.

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