Millionaire ex-Governor William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island was ordered to the Canal Zone for Naval Reserve duty. . . . Edsel Ford's son Benson was called by the draft board for his final physical examination. . . . But C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, No. 1 labor organizer at General Motors, finally won deferment on the plea that his wife, who is also his secretary, would lose her job if he were drafted. . . . And 6 ft. 3 1/2 in. Actor Orson Welles was exempted, of all things, for asthma.

Sea-educated Cinemactor Stirling Hayden achieved the once widely publicized ambition of college boys: he was marooned by tides on a semitropical isle (in the Bahamas) with Madeleine Carroll--but taken off in an airplane all too soon.

The War

Commanding the destroyer Kelly in battle off the coast of Crete, lean, handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten made a safe escape as the ship rolled over and sank within 70 seconds of a direct hit by a German dive bomber. (The Germans had reported the Kelly officially sunk once before.) Cousin of King George and husband of famously wealthy Edwina Cynthia Ashley, Lord Louis had already had a narrow escape last year when his ship, the Javelin, was torpedoed in a Channel battle but limped safely to port. . . . Ferrying planes from factory to field in Britain was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's adopted son Chiang Wei-kuo. . . .Earthbound as a Home Guard battalion commander was Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, co-hero of the first non-stop flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919 with Sir John Alcock.

Hollywood

Child Star Judy Garland (now 19) became engaged to Band Leader Dave Rose, 30, just divorced by satchel-mouthed Martha Raye....Oldtime chalk-faced Comedian Harry Langdon's ex-wife asked a California court to O.K. a $60,584 judgement for unpaid support, previously granted in New York....Dorothy Lamour left for Hawaii on the same boat with friend Gregson Bautzer; both denied they'd marry in Hawaii....Torch Singer Lillian Roth's husband drew six months in jail for blacking her eye; she said he had also broken her jaw while courting her....Peggy Shannon's husband shot himself sitting in the same chair in which the redheaded ex-Follies beauty was found mysteriously dead last month. They were married last October....a son was born to Errol Flynn and Lili Damita.

Royalty

Able-bodied Princess Juliana of The Netherlands subscribed her royal blood to Canada's pool for the war-wounded.... War-rationed King George and Queen Elizabeth made their "weekend roast" last all week....Leopold, King of the Belgians, completed his first year as a prisoner of war, under lax guard in a Laeken castle near Brussels.... Gravely ill at Doorn was Germany's ex-Kaiser Wilhelm....Carol of Rumania plumped bag and baggage down in Havana at last, told 60 reporters and cameramen he was "a simple refugee." .... Finally legit picaresque Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson paid stockholders in his Beverly Hills eatery their first dividend: 18-c- on each $50 share.

Gene Tierney, 20, Hollywood's shapely Tobacco Roadster, and Count Oleg Cassini, 28, who was divorced last year by Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney, patent-medicine heiress, eloped to Las Vegas, Nev., and married.

All Over

Despite continuing headaches, Traffic Victim Fritz Kreisler was able to leave his bed for a few minutes each day, listened to symphonies on the radio....Massive Hendrik Willem van Loon (The Story of Mankind) went to work for the Government, boosting defense bonds....Shakespearean Maurice Evans became a full-fledged American citizen....A daughter was born to Radio Songstress Benay Venuta and Armand S. Deutsch....James Aloysius Farley, 53, celebrated his birthday at a Giants-Dodgers ball game: the Dionne Quintuplets, 7, celebrated at home.

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