Uncrabbed Age

Retired Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes found himself still enjoying life at 81: "If a person is philosophical and has intellectual interests, old age is a very agreeable time."

Clara Bryant Ford, wife of 79-year-old Motorman Henry, reaching 76 (on their 55th wedding anniversary), gave her recipe for happiness: "Lead as natural and as kindly a life as one can."

Hearts and Thistles

Twenty years after her first marriage, 15 months after her second divorce (from Sinclair Lewis), vigorous Columnist Dorothy Thompson said her next would be Maxim Kopf, refugee Czech painter.

FBI-revealed was the fifth marriage and divorce (eleven days later) of glittery, fire-haired Patent Medicine Heiress Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney. Briefly questioned in Manhattan was Husband (in name only) No. 5, a Swedish waiter who said he was 4-F (adenoids). Having lost her passport to the State Department, which disapproved of her Nazi friends, the heiress had paid the hard-up waiter $1,500 to make her a Swede, promptly got a Swedish passport, shortly skipped to South America with some half-million dollars of her fortune. Now living in a white-columned villa in Buenos Aires, she says she will "never go back to the U.S." She admires Hitler and Argentine men ("they are so understanding"), and is studying endocrinology ("explains why some people are crazy and some are not").

After eight years of marriage, much of it in absentia, plum-shaped John Jacob Astor III's pretty wife Ellen was in Reno. Married the year that his coming-of-age netted him an inheritance of some $10 million, she was to have been bridesmaid at his wedding to another girl, who had jilted him. With the divorce, said Astor's secretary, the boss's wife would get half-custody of seven-year-old William Henry, a $1 million settlement.

Heart-faced, carrot-topped Edna Margaret Cox (Stripteaser Margie Hart, "The Poor Man's Garbo") disclosed that since last July 4 she had been married to Army Lieut. Seaman Jacobs, her express agent. Now trouping in the play Cry Havoc, Ecdysiast Edna explained why she had stopped stripping: "It just isn't right for a married woman to do that kind of work."

Getting Along

Although she thought other women should buy new Easter outfits "if they need them," Eleanor Roosevelt thought she would get along this year with the clothes she already had.

As operator of Henry Kaiser's Portland shipyards, Son Edgar Kaiser hired 80,000 workers in two years and helped make the local servant problem worse. After two weeks' combing of employment bureaus and the Situations Wanted, he finally scratched up a cook for his own home.

Viscount Knollys (pronounced Noles), Governor of Bermuda, was finally voted the exemption which the Assembly had accorded high-ranking military men. He may now drive an automobile.

Far from Home

Stockholm "informed sources" (often mouthpieces for the Nazis) let it be known that British Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, long in comfortable durance vile in Germany, had asked Sweden for a residence permit.

Hollywood let it be known that Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Chaliapin were there and at work: the late great Playwright Anton Chekhov's nephew Michael and the late great Basso Feodor Chaliapin's son Feodor as cinemactors in Russia; the late great Novelist Leo Tolstoy's grandnephew Andrey as the film's technical adviser.

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