Domiciled indomitably in her village in the West Country, Britain's Queen Mary, veteran of bloodier wars than 1941'$, wrote some crisply topical letters to friends in London. Her P.S.: "You've probably noted that in referring to Italians and Germans I use a small g and a small i. I do this because I dislike them so much."

For 19 years oldtime Pitcher Smoky Joe Wood, the Bob Feller of 30 years ago, has been coaching at Yale, home-teaching his own three spratlings the tricks of the game. Last fortnight Yale played Colgate. Pitching for Yale was his biggest boy, Joe Jr., now a senior and captain of the team. On the mound for Colgate was Second Son Steve. Youngest Son Bobby, who also can pitch, played first base for Colgate. Smoky Joe couldn't lose. Yale won, 11-to-5.

Chubby, Irish-tempered Cinemactor Thomas Mitchell once won an Academy Award for his notable performance on the back seat of a careening stage coach. Last week, filming The Devil & Daniel Webster on a California lot, Character Mitchell rode again, this time holding the reins himself. The horses charged through two sets, smashed the old-style buggy against a tree, tossed Driver Mitchell to the ground with skull contusions.

Campaigning for a seventh term as Jersey City's mayor, cherub-cheeked Frank Hague rallied patriots to assist him in beating off foreign invasion. Roared the mayor reassuringly: "I am able to safeguard the lives of women and children."

Small, crisp, chirrupy Movie Pioneer Charles Pathe, 78, who started the first newsreel in France in 1909 and in the U.S. in 1910, landed in Manhattan by Clipper from Lisbon, announced that he was through with films. "It is a young man's game," said he.

Bewildered by a changing traffic light halfway across a busy Manhattan street corner, famed, 66-year-old Viennese Violinist Fritz Kreisler stumbled into a speeding truck, was taken comatose to a hospital, with fractured skull, other serious injuries.

In a Manhattan Federal court 58-year-old Joe Schenck, board chairman of 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., heard himself sentenced to $20,000 fine, three years in prison, for evading $250,000 in Federal income taxes. His co-defendant and assistant, Joseph Moskowitz, was sentenced to a year and a day and fined $10,000 for "aiding and abetting." Shocked by his sentence, Movieman Schenck recovered to ride out to LaGuardia Field, bid good-by to his friends Norma Shearer and Lady Ashley (Douglas Fairbanks' widow) as they left for Hollywood.

After five days in Palm Beach the Duchess of Windsor, who in 1936 was willing to leave England but not by air, stepped with her Duke aboard Harold Vanderbilt's commodious Lockheed Lodestar, flew back to the Bahamas on her first flight through the air.

German-born, best-selling Biographer Emil Ludwig (Napoleon, Bismarck, Roosevelt) went to work for nothing for the U.S. Treasury Department. His job: to help explain the defense savings program to German-Americans.

Freed at last by the British, who put her in concentration camp last year, saucy, blonde, 23-year-old Friedelind Wagner, granddaughter of Herr Hitler's favorite composer, reached Argentina to take a job as artistic director of the Buenos Aires opera house. Said she of Hitler: "I am his enemy to the death."

To Manhattan, a fugitive from the German conquerors of France, came muffin-cheeked Paul Clemenceau, eight-month-old great-grandson of the last French conqueror of Germany. He arrived in the arms of his mother, Mrs. Pierre Clemenceau, New Orleans socialite, who left France for Africa after the Nazis invaded, got to the U.S. by Clipper through the intervention of Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

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