Travelers

Julian Huxley, scientist brother of Novelist Aldous, arrived in Manhattan for a lecture tour, predicted: "The U.S. will be the most powerful country when the war is over, while Europe will be a complete mess."

The Ranee of Sarawak, en route to London from Borneo, sounded off to Manhattan reporters on titled visitors, declared: "They're making enemies. . . . What have we got to be snobbish about? The English aristocracy is down and out. . . . Your moneyed crowd kowtow to anybody with a handle to his name. These smarties don't like me. They like my title."

Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe skipped a New York medical meeting for a little side trip to see a hula dancer in Philadelphia--the chaperoned daughter of an oldtime friend.

Dr. Alexis Carrel, who went to France last February "for as short a time as possible," was given a job by Vichy: head of a newly created Foundation for the Study of Human Problems for "guiding men toward higher and better destinies." Dr. Carrel collaborated with Charles A. Lindbergh in developing the famed "mechanical heart."

Old Sweet Song

Bonita Francine Edwards Manville, 22, after 17 days packed her things and said good-by to Tommy, who saw her off to Reno on the train, in the presence of faithful photographers and newsmen. Sighed Manville: "I don't know why she's leaving me." Declared the bride: "I think he's wonderful." Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

Fortunes of War

Pilot Officer Esmond Marcus David Romilly, 23, adventurous nephew of Mrs. Winston Churchill, was listed by the R.C.A.F. as "missing after overseas air operations." Onetime Loyalist fighter in Spain, he eloped with the Hon. Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, sister of Nazi-phile Unity, romped about the U.S.'s eastern seaboard with her from 1939 till last year when he went to Canada to enter training.

Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians said he was going to enlist instead of waiting for his draft call, expected in February.

Sergeant Henry ("Hank") Greenberg, pushing 31, got his Army discharge as an overage draftee, hoped to rejoin the Tigers in the outfield.

Doris Duke Cromwell got the war news in Manhattan as she was about to leave for her fabulous showplace, Shangrila, in battered Honolulu. She stayed.

President Harold W. Dodds's message to Princeton: The Government needs trained men; "it is [Princeton students'] duty . . . to continue the diligent pursuit of their college work."

Napoleon Bonaparte's pickled intestinal tract has been blown to glory, according to Britain's Surgeon Rear Admiral Gordon Gordon-Taylor. It went the way of all flesh when London's Royal College of Surgeons (and its Hunterian Collection) was bombed. Also gone: the tract of "one of the lady friends of Richard III."

Cell Life

Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, World War I draft dodger, as the U.S. entered World War II lost his appeal for a parole from Army prison at Fort Leavenworth, where he has served a little more than a year of a seven-and-a-half-year term.

Rene Belbenoit, writer-fugitive from Devil's Island (Dry Guillotine), drew a 15-month prison sentence at Brownsville, Texas, for illegally entering the country from Mexico last May. Deported in 1940, Belbenoit was a fugitive in Central America till he sneaked back for a lecture tour, faces deportation again when he leaves prison. Title of the book he is now writing: Endless Journey.

Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, who ran for mayor of Newburyport, Mass, from jail, lost the election to one John M. Kelleher, a dance-hall proprietor. Thrice mayor, Bossy is serving nine months for libeling a judge.

"Little Frankie" Gallucio, who in his youth carved the scar on "Scarface" Al Capcine, was jailed in Brooklyn for vagrancy. "I'm a barber," he protested. "I work all over."

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