Losers

Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman lost his wallet. It was found in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, returned with its money to his office. Next day, although the finders' recollections of its contents had been revised upward from $500 to "nearly $700," the archbishop said that there had really been only $30 in the wallet. To reporters who wondered how he had continued his travels without money, he told no secrets.

Archduke Otto of Austria, whose proposal for a U.S. Army battalion of Austrian nationals was finally nixed by both the Army and the State Department, was finally nixed by the Army as a soldier. Aliens must be approved before they can be inducted; the Army simply labeled the handsome young hot potato unacceptable, without going into details.

Players

Katharine Cornell, on the porch of her home on Martha's Vineyard, heard a call for help, traced it to a ravine, where she found an Episcopal clergyman. Climbing there, he had brought a boulder down on him and broken his leg. Actress Cornell whipped up a makeshift splint, applied it to the ministerial leg, briskly bundled the cleric off to the hospital in her station wagon.

Gloria Swanson, No. 1 fashion plate among the silent cinema sirens, gave Interviewer Elsa Maxwell her considered opinion on the reason she had always had to play seductresses: "Because I was quiet, people always thought I knew more about life and love than I did."

Martha ("Mickey") Devine Dodge, ex-Ziegfeld beauty who once hit headlines by hitting Primo Camera on the chin at a Paris nightclub, charged her wealthy (automobiles) husband with assault. Major Horace E. Dodge Jr. had been "very rough," she said. Served with a summons in a suit for separation (she wants $60,000 a year alimony), he had stopped in at her Park Avenue apartment, ripped a diamond ring off her finger, yanked a diamond pin from her waist, nearly got a diamond necklace--but that dropped down the front of her dress. She dropped the assault charge after he sent back the jewelry.

Barbara Bel Geddes, 20-year-old daughter of the futuristic designer, nabbed a movie contract, promptly started off on the right leg. When photographers greeted her with a demand for cheese cake, she measured up to the occasion by producing one (see cut).

Sons

Lieut. John Roosevelt, 27, youngest of the President's sons and the only one who has not yet seen action, was assigned to "sea duty in a war zone."

Lieut, (j.g.) John F. Kennedy, 26-year-old son of the ex-Ambassador to Britain, was commanding a PT boat on night patrol north of New Georgia when a Jap destroyer sliced it in two. The aft portion went up in flames. Kennedy rescued two of his crewmen, clung to the bow with them and eight others for twelve hours, towed one of the men on a three-hour swim to a small island. There they lived on coconuts for three days, then swam to a larger island, where friendly natives found them the next day, carried back to the Navy base an S O S scratched on a coconut. Back in Hyannis, Mass., informed of his son's rescue, father Joseph commented: "Phew."

Robert Kenneth Chennault, 18-year-old youngest son of the Fourteenth Air Force's Commander, reported for induction in Shreveport. The armed forces now have all six Chennault boys.

William Jennings Bryan Jr., 54-year-old son of the Great Commoner, was busying himself with bird feathers in Los Angeles. Members of the armed forces in the South Pacific have been sending samples of outlandish plumage back to their girls, unaware that an old wildlife protection measure forbids the importation of undomesticated plumes. The barnyard kind are all right. As Port Collector of Customs, Bryan so far has faithfully snatched from the mails an even hundred wild plumes.

Society

Frau Hermann Goring arrived in Basel, Switzerland on what was described as a little shopping trip. She presently moved into a castle on Lake Constance.

Frau Joseph Goebbels did likewise.

Signora Benito Mussolini, said a Madrid dispatch, has turned up in a little Spanish town called Sax.

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