Though granting that sin still lurked in such "adjuncts of the devil's back yard" and "citadels of hell" as Michigan's drink spots, godly, 81-year-old retiring Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, addressing an exaugural message to the State Legislature, drew the Legislature's attention (and Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner's) to the fact that "God Almighty has a place and power in Michigan's State administration as never before."

The Justice Department denied the request of tall, sporty, 25-year-old Claudius Dornier Jr., son and namesake of the famed German plane designer, for a further extension of the visitor's permit on which he came to the U. S. 18 months ago. Before the war he got a job as a mechanic in a General Motors plant in Detroit, later lived quietly in Manhattan, but having failed to enroll in a U. S. university as he said he would, he got no more extensions from the Department of Justice, flew off to Venezuela.

Author Hendrik van Loon took one despairing look at the million-and-a-half tipsy New Year celebrants jammed into Manhattan's Times Square, gloomed: "It was much like the gaiety of Paris 150 years ago on the eve of the French revolution."

To Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, accompanied by loving wife Carole Lombard, went dimple-chinned, he-mannered Clark Gable, 39, to find out what was wrong with a broad but aching Gable shoulder. "Hurry up," groused he at photographers, "I'm not feeling so well." Next day dental surgeons found what they claimed was the root of Actor Gable's ills, yanked an infected molar.

O, Wild Chicago, When the Time Is Ripe for Ruin's deeds, When constitutions, courts and laws Go down midst crashing creeds, Lift up your weak and guilty hands From out the wreck of states, And as the crumbling towers fall down, Write ALTGELD on your gates! Thus adjured the outraged New York Sun in 1893. Called anarchist (for freeing three of the Haymarket rioters) and blamed for the great Pullman strike was Illinois' liberal Governor John Peter Altgeld. Years afterwards Poet Vachel Lindsay wrote a poem about him (The Eagle That Is Forgotten}, Biographer Carl Sandburg called him Illinois' greatest son after Abraham Lincoln. Last week, the University of Illinois law school prepared to inscribe over its doors--Altgeld Hall.

Costumed crustaceously, and made up as thickly as his famous father's Hunchback of Notre Dame, huge (6 ft. 2), horrific Lon Chaney Jr., complained he was getting heavier parts than his father ever got. Slumped gigantically against a Hollywood stage prop, he gratefully accepted a light from Cinemactress Anne Nagel, moaned: "I want to do character roles, not robot parts."

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