Upward, Onward & Around

Into the Army as a private in San Francisco: famed Yankee Hitter Joseph Paul Di Maggio. Outfielder, husband and father of one, he was a 3-A "voluntary inductee."

Set for a cinema role in an undisclosed movie was Marlene Dietrich's 18-year-old daughter Maria Sieber, whom a photographer caught with mother for the sake of comparison (see cut).

In Buenos Aires on a hand-waving, handshaking Latin-American swing to promote U.S. postwar trade: Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Other stops: Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Colombia.

Elastic Spring

Spring came early to elastic Publisher Bernarr Macfadden (Physical Culture, True Romances), 74-year-old founder of Physcultopathy (see cut), here seen bridgebuilding in Florida.

LaGuardia's Generals

Broadcaster Fiorello LaGuardia, who dearly loves a scoop, had a juicy one last week for listeners to his Italian language radio chat beamed to Italy. "I had a most interesting talk a few days ago concerning the war in Africa," purred the Mayor. Abruptly then he named the men with whom he said he had spoken--eight Italian generals and one air marshal. Properly dramatic, he saved the best name for last, throwing it in as an afterthought: hot-tempered General Annibale ("Electric Whiskers") Bergonzoli, photogenic Black Shirt commander captured by the British in Libya two years ago this month.

Where he had met them the Mayor did not say, but he has not been out of the U.S.

"They all seemed to be in good health," the Mayor said sweetly, "and I would say that they all seemed aged beyond their years. . . ."

Sallies in an Alley

Walter Winchell, Broadway's No. 1 needler, had broadcast a blast ("damn fools") at last fall's voters who had voted for isolationist Congressmen (TIME, Feb. 22). Outraged Congressmen talked of an investigation of Winchell's Navy service. To stop the bad publicity for the Navy, Frank Knox this week announced that the Navy's best-known lieutenant commander had been put on inactive duty. Michigan's bitter Congressman Clare Hoffman, who had often been Winchellacked, chortled: "No longer will Navy men wince at the spectacle of a Broadway gossiper sporting a lieutenant commander's stripes while he snoops about nightclubs in search of sexy tidbits."

Actually Secretary Knox had not changed Winchell's status: he has been on inactive duty since he got back from South America in January. But Congressmen were appeased: Westbrook Pegler got a column out of it; so did Winchell. Winchell's grandiose view of his new role: "It apparently has been decided that the Navy is to fight the underseas threat and that I am to continue fighting the undercover menace."

Zone of Quiet

Up & around after two days in a Dallas hospital was Associate Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy. An attending physician said he had suffered "complete nervous collapse." Murphy, en route to visit his ailing brother Lieut. Commander George in San Francisco, said "I never felt better," called his own illness "highly overemphasized.''

Nursing a cold at home in West Orange was Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey.

Taking it easy at home after getting a lungful of Hollywood heaven was Cinemactress Ginger Rogers. Dancing on a celestial set all fluffed up with carbon dioxide clouds, she had taken a good deep breath, promptly passed out cold.

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