Frank Knox draped his office wall with a great swastika--the flag of the freighter Odenwald, captured in the South Atlantic flying United States colors.

Viscount Halifax perched atop a tank, toured a proving ground at Eddystone, Pa., clutching a gun snout for support, later whipped around the field at 40 m.p.h. inside the tank, declared the posting was a cinch.

Harold Lloyd announced some Republicans in San Francisco had asked him to run for Governor, said he would issue a statement after the first of the year.

Governor Dwight P. (for Palmer) Griswold of Nebraska declared he made room for an extra five-minute conference a day by skipping his middle initial whenever he wrote his signature.

He & She

Doris Duke Cromwell, photographed in a Manhattan nightclub with Errol Flynn, brightened the photographers' day by doing a left-handed cock-the-snoot.

Elaine Barrie Jacobs Barrymore's year-old divorce decree from John became final, legally rang down the curtain on six years of front-page fight-and-make-up.

Elmer Rice, Pulitzer Prizewinning dramatist (Street Scene), turned up in Reno, told reporters: "A divorce will probably result from my being here." He and Wife Hazel Levy Rice have been married 26 years.

Orson Welles and Dolores Del Rio said they planned to get married soon after Jan. 18, when her decree from Cedric Gibbons becomes final. It will be Welles's second, her third.

Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, 57, and his 20-year-old bride, the former Evalyn Walsh McLean, returned to Washington from their honeymoon, both wobbly from a double siege of flu.

Prince Takahito Mikasa, 26-year-old brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, posed with his 18-year-old bride, Yuriko Takagi, for a solemn wedding picture (see cut).

Music Masters

Bob Burns, bazookist, was sued for $32,738 by Paramount for not going to work in a movie called Joan of Arkansas. Arkansan Burns dubbed the script "disgusting," commented: "All they know at the studio about Arkansas is what they see in the cartoons of a magazine that sells for 50-c- and whose name I can't seem to recall."

Fiorello H. LaGuardia led a band for a refugee benefit at Madison Square Garden. Among his bandsmen: Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Eddy Duchin, Guy Lombardo, Sammy Kaye.

Maurice Chevalier, camel-lipped love songster (". . . every little breeze seems to whisper Louise.") sang & danced for French war prisoners in Germany.

Silly Symphony

Lana Turner was voted "Sweetheart of the harbor defenses of Sandy Hook."

Helen Jepson strolled with a beribboned pet pig for photographers.

Olivia de Havilland got a sweater knitted for her by a draftee.

Linda Darnell declared to the press that "my eyes just won't stay open after midnight."

Ellen Drew, onetime soda jerker, took off her mink coat and mixed a soda for photographers in a Manhattan drugstore.

Women & War

Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, honorary chairman of a county Fight for Freedom Committee in Massachusetts, got a letter branding her and Interventionist Senator

Carter Glass "a couple of old-age destroyers." Two days later Mrs. Dwight Morrow made her a member of the women's national committee.

Janet Ayer Fairbank, novelist officer of the America First Committee, asked committee members to send Christmas cards this year bearing an America First plug.

Woodrow Wilson's grandniece, Ellen Howe, 28, sailed for London to take "a peanut job" as clerk in the U.S. Embassy.

Lady Louis Mountbatten Clippered from New York for Lisbon to join husband Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten in London after four months of "thank-you" work here for the Red Cross. Daughter

Pamela, 12, flew along; Daughter Patricia, 17, stayed on with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt for more schooling at fashionable Miss Hewitt's. She returns to do war work next year.

The Law

Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin") was pardoned by California's Governor Culbert L. Olson from a 15-year-old sentence for assault, for which he spent three years in San Quentin. Krebs, pardoned, hopes to win U.S. citizenship, escape deportation.

Spencer T. Moseley, captain-elect of Yale's football team, was arrested in New Haven for smashing the glass windows of a dozen parking meters while he was out for a stroll.

Evelyn Frechette opened the door to Chicago police hunting one Walter J. Wilson for embezzlement. They recognized her as the onetime mistress of gangster John Dillinger, now Wilson's wife. She had been traveling with a carnival, lecturing on "Crime Doesn't Pay." Police jailed her for questioning.

Poet Carl Sandburg, authority on Lincoln, authoritatively scotched a Rome radio tale that Italian Patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi had been asked to lead Union troops in the Civil War. The poet labeled it "just one more of those goofy affairs that come out of Italy. . . ."

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