For Services Rendered

Censored this year was SEC's annual announcement of the nation's best-salaried men & women. Not in the running were the salaries of executives in war industries (including Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace, who last year ranked No. 2) for fear they might give away war secrets.

Listed at the top of 1941's best-paid:*

>Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, $704,425.60. (He was tops for the second year running.) >Cinedoodle Dandy James Cagney, $362,500.

>Cinemactor Clark Gable, $357,500.

>Cinemagnate Nicholas M. Schenck, $334,204.54.

>American Tobacco's George Washington Hill, $288,144.

>Cinemactress Bette Davis, $271,083.

>Cineproducer Darryl Zanuck, $260,000.

>F. W. Woolworth's C. W. Deyo, $252,061.

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has put her ancient Rolls-Royce up in mothballs for the duration. It gets only five miles to the gallon.

Rank

Multimillionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt enlisted in the Navy, was made a bos'n, but kept his Manhattan apartment open to keep his servants busy.

Back in uniform, but a new one, was 47-year-old Playwright Laurence Stallings (What Price Glory?). A Marine Corps captain who lost his leg in Belleau Wood, he was assigned to active duty with the Army Air Forces, promoted to major.

"In connection with new duties [unspecified] which His Royal Highness is undertaking," The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard was made a rear admiral in the Dutch Navy, a major general in the Dutch Army.

A year and a half after Paramount first announced that it had considered somebody for the role of Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls, the studio was still announcing it. Last week's favorite: Ballerina Vera Zorina.

Zone of Quiet

Captain Randolph Churchill, son of the Prime Minister, was hospitalized with bruises after an auto accident near Alexandria, Egypt.

Queen Mother Marie of Yugoslavia got a vigorous shaking-up in a car crash near London.

Betty Grable, in a Hollywood hospital for the second time in a week, after overexerting herself dancing, was operated on "for correction of a side ailment."

Major Elliott Roosevelt, whose mother had said he had "picked up some sort of germ" in Egypt, was reported in a Fort Worth hospital. The hospital confirmed the report by refusing to say anything.

Plug

A canoe bearing Cinestar Bette Davis and 12-year-old bitplayer Janis Wilson across California's Lake Arrowhead overturned, dumped them into deep water 40 yards from shore. Swimmer Davis succeeded in getting semi-swimmer Wilson to shore, gave her up to her mother, who spanked the daughter, kissed the actress. "I am an old Eagle Scout," explained Miss Davis.

Childe Harold in Wonderland

"I can't speak for the OPC," said Harold L Ickes in answer to a question at a press conference. "What?" demanded the press. Mr. Ickes thought a second time. "I'm all balled up with these initials. I didn't recognize my own child," admitted the head of the Office of Petroleum Coordination.

*Assuming these persons were married and had no dependents, they will have to pay between 53% and 73% of this income to Uncle Sam--in addition to State and local taxes.

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