Abed last week were not only Franklin D. Roosevelt (see p. 15), but Salvation Army General Evangeline Booth, after a brief collapse from the heat; Democratic National Committee Boss Ed Flynn, with bronchitis, after measles; ex-New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman, following a hernia operation. Ill again of dysentery was Kermit Roosevelt in London, where failing health forced him to resign his commission as major in the British Army.

Back home after five years, Haile Selassie found the interim occupants of the palace had left a stone Roman eagle on the lintel over the front door. He had it beheaded.

Attending his first baseball game, towering, cadaverous Lord Halifax, British Ambassador, saw the White Sox beat the Tigers, in Chicago, asked, "Do they throw the ball to hit the runner?"; asked of a hot dog, "What's inside it?"; posed poking at Sox Owner Charles Albert Comiskey II's baseball with a fountain pen.

To a thousand-throated freshman yell of "Take them off," Sally Rand, at a Harvard smoker, thoughtlessly retorted, "I will if you will," danced in a blizzard of cast-off gents' furnishings.

In Cairo, lank, balding metaphorist Captain James Roosevelt described the situation in Iraq as "well in hand, but rather deep-seated."

Same day Bethlehem Steel's President Eugene Gifford Grace was publicized as second-highest-paid U.S. executive, fiery septuagenarian Spinster Zara du Pont, munitions family maverick and Bethlehem stockholder, sued him, the corporation and 17 other Bethlehem officers and directors for $1,000,000, charging wasteful expenditures of that amount for labor-baiting.

Safeish in the Western Hemisphere on lumama's Independence day, dandified, puff-eyed Carol wirelessed back to son King Mihal I in Rumania "thoughts and love," assured the press later in his $100-a-day Bermuda hotel suite: "I am very glad to be on this side of the Atlantic; that I can tell you." Consort Magda Lupescu, whose given name the curious had discovered was Elena, whose body was taller and thinner than rumor whose hair was blonder than red and had never had a permanent, dazzled the populace with a chiffon blouse, outsize earrings. an anklet, white powder, orange lipstick,' blue eyeshadow.

Named their favorite poet by Princeton University seniors was William Shakespeare, who nosed out Rudyard Kipling, former winner, author of If. Their favorite poem: If.

Oldtime Song & Dance Man Harry Jolson (Hirsch Yoelson.) sued his brother Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson) for $25,000 in back pay, earned at $150 a week, said Harry, by not using the name Jolson in the theater.

Rough, tough-talking, convivial, mustachioed Painter Thomas Hart Benton gave way to rough, mustachioed Painter Fletcher Martin, ex-lumberjack-boxer-football player, as the Kansas City Art Institute's head of painting and drawing.

Of New York City's Park Commissioner Robert Moses said Queens Borough President George Harvey: "He's an appointed public official who couldn't be elected dog catcher." Said Robert Moses to George Harvey, through the mail: "I have no thought of running against you for dog catcher. The job is right up your alley."

Plump Mrs. Dena Shelby Diehl, American Mother of 1941, had a chat with plump Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, First U.S. Mother, came out against spanking.

In Jersey City, well-fed Mayor Frank Hague, notorious Democratic State boss, wound up his campaign for re-election by crying to voters: "Do you want graft and corruption? ... I want to serve, irrespective of the sacrifice."

Lean, long-nosed, liberal Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, Church of England's outspoken Bishop of Birmingham, drew a damage payment of -L-1,600 for slandering 13 cement companies. He had hinted the British cement makers were profitably taking it easy instead of patriotically expanding. Said the High Court of Justice judge, Sir Frederic John Wrottesley, on learning no apology was forthcoming: "I have always understood that humility is a Christian virtue. It seems not inconsistent with highest ecclesiastical position."

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