Glamor Girls

Betty Cordon, the Stork Club's official G. G. No. 1, started back to school to learn to be a kindergarten teacher. Ann Sheridan, the Harvard Lampoon's onetime choice for "least likely to succeed," joined President James Bryant Conant as an honorary editor of the literary Harvard Advocate. Sailors of the U.S. Navy decided buxom Cinemactress Jane Russell was "the girl we'd like most to have waiting for us in every port," sent her six loving cups. Home with mother was Lenore Lemmon, ten-day bride of playful Jakie Webb. Lenore said she had found Jakie was tattooed from head to foot. "If and when I get out of this mess," said Lenore, "I'm going to marry a bricklayer, a . . . boy who's never even seen a nightclub."

Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy submitted a plan for saving the Government millions of dollars worth of paper, gum, and ink: cut down the size of postage stamps.

Local Lords

A guest on Information Please, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia recognized the ingredients of spaghetti sauce,* the duets in Tristan & Isolde, missed when he said he was New York City's 99th mayor (correct: 103rd, counting acting mayors). Encyclopedia and $25 went to Questioner Maury Maverick, ex-Mayor of San Antonio. Sunny Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron turned up in sunny Miami bundled up in an overcoat and a smug grin. Michigan's Governor Murray Van Wagoner signed up for rhumba lessons. His abstemious predecessor, Luren D. Dickinson, 82, announced that if he got "a call from God" he would run for office again. "I've heard nothing from Heaven yet," he added.

Song & Dance

Fritz Kreisler is composing a new University of Wisconsin song. Dancer Josephine Baker, the dark-brown toast of Paris, moved to French Morocco for the duration. With the Newport season nearly over, Torchsinger Gertrude Niesen spent a night in her new $2,500,000 mansion, registered in town as a permanent resident. Negro Composer Clinton Brewer (Stampede in G Minor), who spent 19 years in a New Jersey prison for killing his wife, and was pardoned last summer because of his music, took up a new career as an arranger for CBS and Count Basic's band. Last week his new career ended abruptly. He was locked up because his lady love, Wilhelmina Washington, was found dead, all cut up with stab wounds.

Homecoming

After eight years absence, the Duchess of Windsor brought her husband home to Baltimore to meet the folks. Uncle Henry Warfield and a little party went down to the rickety one-room depot at Timonium, 20 miles north of Baltimore, and watched the two-car train pull in. The Duke and Duchess stepped out and waved, while a crew of redcaps unloaded their baggage--leather bags, paper-wrapped bundles tied up with string, a duffle sack, golf bags. An S.P.C.A. station wagon whisked the Windsors' three cairn terriers, Prisie, Pookie, and Detto, off to freshly scrubbed kennels. Uncle Henry whisked the guests off to Salona Farms, his two-story white frame house with eight rooms and old-fashioned plumbing. Their rooms were "two of the best," Uncle Henry said--each with a double bed and a view of the dogwood and mulberry trees. Next day, while the Duke played golf, his wife and her friends got their heads together. Day later, with Aunt Bessie Merryman, they toured the streets of Baltimore between jammed curbs. Mayor Howard W. Jackson and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Carle (Rosa Ponselle) Jackson, were waiting at City Hall. He gave the Duchess a bouquet of orchids, her husband a history of Maryland. Then they drove out to the country club, past the boarding house Wallis Warfield once called home, to have tea with 800 politely curious Baltimoreans.

Fortunes of War

Lady Astor urged Britons to hand white feathers to women who had not joined the forces. Queen Elizabeth's nephew, Captain John Patrick Bowes-Lyon of the Scots Guards, was reported missing in action in the Middle East. Vichy withdrew the Legion of Honor decorations of General Charles de Gaulle, Eve Curie, Playwright Henry Bernstein. Deprived of his citizenship by Germany, Novelist Erich Maria ("All Quiet") Remarque applied in Los Angeles for his first U.S. papers, it The late Brigadier General William ("Billy") Mitchell's son John, 21, enlisted as a field artillery private in Milwaukee, At a Tucson hotel Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler found V-for-Victory stickers on his dresser's mirror, on his door, on his baggage. Latest handers-of-cigars-to-Winston Churchill: Burma's Premier U Saw and his adviser U Tin Tut.

Complaint Dept.

Bottle-nosed W. C. Fields told a judge he was ill when he bought a $50,000 annuity, asked it canceled, complained: "I'm 57 now and I'd have to live forever to break even." A Long Beach ball fan who was hit in the head with a slung bat sued Joe DiMaggio's outfielder brother Dominic for $11,600. Leo Heyn, Uniontown, Pa. hotelman, announced he had settled his $100,000 suit (for a radio crack about his hotel) against Al Jolson for four tickets to a Jolson show.

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