Kith, Kin, Kudos

Home from China to confer with their Commander in Chief were Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and Major General Claire L. Chennault. Straightway, the shrewdest Flying Tiger of them all got the General William L. Mitchell Air Trophy to show to his wife and eight kids (one serving on land, two at sea, three in the air). To "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell came a bid from his Peking-born daughter, Alison, 22, to her New York show of ink paintings in the Chinese style.

To U.S. Navy Lieut. Manning M. Kimmel, son of the retired Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, after Pearl Harbor listed for court-martial, went the Silver Star for submarine counterblows against his father's back-stabbers.

In Washington with his father, British Ambassador Lord Halifax, who lost one of his three sons (Peter, 26) at El Alamein last November, was British Army Lieut. Richard Wood, 22. He quietly recounted how the bomb that took both his legs failed to explode, left him his life. For nine years the Golden Rule Foundation, whose funds go to "mothers . . . orphans . . . innocent victims of war" and whose donation blanks are headed "In Honor of My Mother," has winnowed an assortment of honorary Mothers (TIME, May 3). Last week its aplomb was jiggled by Mrs. Henry P. Davison, 72, widow of a Morgan partner, and mother of Colonel (former Assistant Secretary of War) Trubee and of World War II naval officer Harry P. She refused to become New York State Mother of 1943.

Old Names & New Faces

A rounder-faced Pola Negri (Polish-born Appollonia Chalupec), 43, siren of the silent movies, was welcomed back to Hollywood for a comedy role in Hi Diddle Diddle. Said the twice-divorced Valentino-age vamp, who left the U.S. in 1932 to make German and French films: "All I want now is to marry, have children, and stage another great success in pictures."

Leatrice Joy Gilbert, 18-year-old daughter of John ("Great Lover") Gilbert, leafed through her first movie script with her mother, onetime Cinemactress Leatrice Joy. Tall, brunette Leatrice (Mrs. Francis Carney since her freshman year at Stanford) said she would go on with her poetry: "It'll give me something to fall back on if acting peters out."

On the Move

Treasury Secretary Henry J. Morgenthau Jr. went to Portland, Ore. to spur the war bond drive, was given local apples to compare with his own New York State-grown product, compared them (see cut). At Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard a young worker remarked: "Say, I always have wanted some money direct from the Treasury." The Secretary reached into his right-hand exchequer, gave him two bits.

Deported to Germany from his Nazi-occupied feudal seigniory in the English Channel was U.S.-born Robert Woodward Hathaway, Seigneur of Sark by his 1929 marriage to the Dame of Sark.

When the Army & Navy took the Circus ("Human Projectile") Zacchinis, her uncle and her brother, Victoria Zacchini, 19, stepped into the breech, flew out of the muzzle of the family's man-shooting cannon, equaled the 200-ft. family record.

To pay homage to the six-year-old Tibetan Panchen Lama, born on the exact date of his predecessor's death and considered by Tibetans the reincarnation of Buddha, lesser Lamas began their trek from all quarters of Tibet to his birthplace at Lihwa in China's Sikang Province.

50's

Lionel Barrymore and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise checked off half-centuries of professional success. The actor's 68th birthday was the 50th anniversary of his first role in The Road to Ruin. The cello-voiced Rabbi, 69, told a crowded New York temple: "The heart of one who stood before you 50 years ago ... is full of gratitude."

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