Hearth & Home

Gene Tierney's parents went to court, heard a Connecticut judge grant a foreclosure order to the holder of a $5,004.25 mortgage on their Westport, Conn. home. Broker Howard S. Tierney and Gene's mother, Mrs. Belle T. Tierney, through the Belletier Corp., a family corporation formed to handle their daughter's financial affairs, sued in vain last June to enforce a contract requiring Gene to pay 25% of her film earnings to it.

John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought the Pocantico Hills, N.Y. firehouse, to which he had lent money, for $5,000 at a foreclosure sale, is expected to rent it to the village, where he has a country estate.

Governor Leon Phillips of Oklahoma complained that a wolf was at his door, overturning garbage pails, howling through the night, asked Oklahoma City's zoo for a trapper.

Gene Autry's ranch home near Hollywood burned to the ground. Estimated loss: $250,000. When Autry bought another ranch near Berwyn, Okla., the town changed its name to Gene Autry, Okla.

Uncle Don of the radio (real name: Don Carney) went home to his empty Manhattan penthouse, put out a mysterious fire blazing in the bedroom of his eleven-year-old daughter, found his own bedroom also ablaze.

Mme. Maurice Maeterlinck went to court in Manhattan to make hit-and-run and third-degree assault charges against Mrs. Samuel Sloan Colt, wife of the president of Bankers Trust. Her claim: Mrs. Colt's big limousine jammed her little foreign car in Fifth Avenue traffic, drove off without stopping. Mrs. Colt said she stopped, waited, saw no damage, drove off. The magistrate dismissed the charges; the ladies shook hands, gushed: "I am glad to have met you."

Money Matters

Harold lckes will never recover the $2 he spent for a coat of arms. A district grand jury refused to take action on an indictment sought by Bubbling Harold. He claimed that the arms he got were "pure invention," that the Ickes family never had a coat of arms.

Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, divorced wife of Captain James, agreed to take a $25,000 settlement instead of $50,000 within five years (or $5,000 a year for life), set gossip columns speculating on her remarriage.

Alice Jones Rhinelander won an annuity of $3,600 from the estate of her ex-father-in-law, the late real-estate Tycoon Philip Rhinelander.

Harry Langdon fell $1,079.09 behind in his $25-a-week alimony to his divorced wife. Wistful Comedian Langdon explained that he earned only $2,000 in the past year. "He is just a man who is having a hard time," said Commissioner E. D. ("Larry") Doyle, dismissing the case.

Noel Coward was fined a second time for failing the second time to offer up his U.S. assets to the British Government. The Lord Mayor's Court read Playwright Coward's autobiography. Present Indicative, studied what he said of "wise investments" in U.S. securities, charged him $6,400.

Books of the Week

Benito Mussolini wrote a book, I Speak with Bruno, in memory of his aviator son. To patriotic Italians who contribute to a fund for orphans of airmen killed in the war 50,000 copies will be given.

Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is most in demand of the 4,000 books in the Camp Grant (Ill.) library.

Gloria Vanderbilt, 17, showed up at Manhattan's nightspots with a new hairdo, a new beau. The hairdo: a long bob, instead of her Hollywood pompadour. The beau: Cinemactor Bruce Cabot.

Bundles for Britain

John Masefield thanked carpet workers at the Yonkers, N.Y. plant of Alexander Smith & Sons, where he once worked (TIME, Aug. 11), for the ambulance they gave in his name to the British American Ambulance Corps.

Ralph Vaughan Williams, 69-year-old British composer (A London Symphony, Hugh the Drover, etc.) joined a new Volunteer Salvage Corps, will drive a lorry, pick up rags, bones, old bottles for salvage.

Queen Elizabeth visited Lord Roberts' Memorial Workshops, where former service men are employed as weavers, bought two hand-woven scarves, giving up two clothing coupons apiece, said she could not afford any more.

Earl Baldwin of Bewdley and his Countess, Lucy, stepped out of retirement, inspected a hospital for British Empire forces, built with funds contributed by the Government of South Africa.

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