Expert Abroad

Self-contained six-year-old Joel Kupperman, youngest of the radio Quiz Kids, took his first long train trip, was spellbound by the porter's berth-making technique. In Manhattan the Chicago prodigy told newsmen that he planned to be a farmer when he grew up. "I want to grow food and supplies for the Army for the next war," said he. This one, he thought, might end in 1945.

Sponsored by Celamese

Blonde, full-blown Soprano Jean Tennyson, onetime Vanities girl, is a singing star of radio's Great Moments in Music. The program's sponsor is giant Celanese Corp. of America. Miss Tennyson is the wife of Celanese President Camille Dreyfus. These facts last week added up to a stockholder's suit for recovery of funds. To "further, foster and subsidize" the "career, fortunes and popularity" of Mrs. Dreyfus, declared the stockholder, Celanese last year laid out $1,000,000.

Body & Soul

The Rt. Rev. G. (for George) Ashton Oldham, Episcopal Bishop of Albany, roundly denied the importance of lipstick and nail polish to keep up U.S. morale. "God help this country," cried he in a Lenten sermon, "if we have to depend on those things for morale." Promptly from Hollywood came red-white-&-blue protests: How would the Bishop of Albany like to give up shaving? "I am willing to stop shaving," he countered, "if they are willing to give up cosmetics." That appeared unlikely.

From Philadelphia came a less clear-cut challenge, from Harlem's famed Father Divine, temporarily resident in Philadelphia: "By tangibilating your fondest imagination I have brought into actuality the REALITY OF GOD ALMIGHTY--Therefore, I say, handle ME and feel ME and see that a spirit has not flesh and bones!" A New York City warrant for his arrest--he is in arrears on a judgment to one Mrs. Verinda Brown--restricts his Harlem Heaven visits to Sundays, when warrants cannot be served.

Public Servant

Dining at the swank Sutton Place apartment of Manhattan Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, Wendell Lewis Willkie jumped slightly every time Mrs. Mitchell spoke to the butler, finally got used to the fact that the butler's name was Wilkie.

Knight Out

Bigheaded Richard Allen Knight, disbarred, divorced, disgruntled onetime lawyer and master of legal billingsgate, went on a well-publicized bender in Manhattan. (He once posed for photographers standing on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House--TIME, Dec. 11, 1939.) On plushy upper Fifth Avenue, he followed up a street-corner conga by soundly bussing a couple of female passersby, then plunged into the Plaza Art Auction Galleries, where he encountered a statuesque beauty (an armless Venus) and struck up a conversation with her. Repairing briefly to the Sherry-Netherland bar, he emerged, gathered another crowd by bawling the headlines of a newspaper, spied a pretty girl, promptly proposed, was promptly turned down. When the police arrived, he grabbed a cab.

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