Honors

Loretta Young was chosen by Columbia seniors as their favorite raid-shelter companion.

Dorothy Thompson succeeded Lieut. Commander James Joseph Tunney as head of United Youth for Defense.

Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") Dall, 14-year-old granddaughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt, did bottle-smashing honors across the prow of the new U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Pathfinder at a Seattle shipyard.

Seats of the Mighty

Governor Arthur H. James of Pennsylvania will give up his hightop, hook-lace shoes, to conserve leather.

Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia found time enough between jobs to dash to a waterfront fire in zero weather, got both cheeks frostbitten, departed smeared with salve.

General Robert E. Wood, peacetime America First head, prepared to join Army Ordnance in Chicago, as a production man.

Governor Ralph Carr of Colorado started bicycling to the office to condition himself for possible auto-sacrifice.. He ordered cycles for the State's tax agents.

Song & Dance

Arturo Toscanini, Soprano Lotte Lehmann, Basso Ezio Pinza, as "enemy aliens," found they had to get U.S. permission to travel from city to city. Questionnaires had to be filled out in quadruplicate for each jump. It meant that concertouring Lehmann signed 80, concertouring Pinza 88 (both of them have taken out their first papers). Toscanini won the right to go from New York to Philadelphia to Washington.

Enrico Caruso, 38-year-old son of the late, great tenor, got into a spat with a woman bus passenger in Chicago, wound up in court charged with disorderly conduct. The woman said straphanging Enrico refused to let her squeeze by him, stamped on her foot, slapped her. Enrico said she shoved him, called him a beetle. He apologized in court; the case was dismissed.

Catherine Littlefield had to cancel a two-month ballet tour because she had chosen "big, brawny and masculine" dancers for the troupe. The armed forces and war industries got eight of them.

Fighters

Wendell Willkie's son Philip, 22, an apprentice seaman, went off to Annapolis to study for an ensign's commission.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., now on active duty with the Navy, was promoted from ensign to lieutenant, junior grade.

James H. Doolittle, famed speed flyer, was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel. He is doing aircraft production research in Baltimore.

Kit Edward Carson, 26, grandson of the famed scout, enlisted in the Marine Corps in Denver.

Erskine Caldwell Jr., almost 17, tried to jump the gun on the age minimum, applied for enlistment in the Marine Corps in Augusta, Me. His mother said she had no objection.

Jack Dempsey, 46, tried to enlist in the Army in Manhattan, passed his physical exam, but failed to win a waiver of the age limit.

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