Family Circles

Seven-year-old Prince Edward, who became the Duke of Kent when his father died in a 1942 plane crash, watched with his sister Alexandra (see cut) a London parade of his mother's WRENS (Britannic WAVES). Sprucely dressed, the exquisite Marina's handsome elder son looked as though he had outgrown his interest in heaving pillows from Buckingham Palace balconies.

From her father Princess Elizabeth received the 17th of the annual birthday pearls which will make a completed necklace of 21. On the eve of her birthday she had her first solo public engagement, reviewing alone her Grenadier Guards.

Selected as "American Mother of 1943" was Mary Moore Thompson, 55, president of Western College for women (Oxford, Ohio). She is the grandmother of five, has a son each in the Army, Navy, Red Cross, war production.

Simultaneously down with flu at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital were the Sage of Emporia & wife, the William Allen Whites. They hoped to leave soon for Santa Fe and Estes Park, Cob. to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at the scenes of their honeymoon. Said the Sage, now 75: "The last time, I was a 25-year-old editorial writer. . . . Sallie was a 22-year-old schoolteacher. We had a railroad pass from the paper." Said Mrs. White, commenting on the separate rooms which kept them from nurse-forbidden talk: "You might think we'd be talked out after 50 years. But we're not."

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