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Doris Duke ("The Richest Girl") Cromwell, separated three years from ambitious James Henry Roberts Cromwell, ex-Minister to Canada, turned out to have secretly sued him for divorce, in Reno a fortnight ago. She charged cruelty. He had already sued last September in New Jersey, charging desertion. Last week the struggle seemed likely to be shrill. The tobacco heiress charged that Jimmy had demanded $7 million as a financial settlement. He promptly denied it; his attorneys sadly remarked that now he might have to "present to the courts matters which he had hoped, out of kindness to her, would remain unrevealed."

Jimmie Fidler, hot-water specialist among Hollywood gossips (TIME, Nov. 30), announced that his wife, Roberta, had moved to Mexico, would soon sue for divorce.

Rita Hayworth Welles, sued for $12,000 by ex-Husband Edward Charles Judson, settled out of court. He had complained that after signing a divorce settlement she had paid him only four monthly installments of $500 apiece and then stopped.

Prospects

Joseph Curran, boss of C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union, won a draft reclassification from 1-A to 2-A (deferred for six months as a necessary civilian) on an appeal to the Presidential board in Washington. That put him back where he had been before his New York City appeal board had reclassified him--and it carried him well beyond his 38th birthday next March.

Frank Sinatra was classified 1-A pending his induction physical examination.

Frail father of one and another to come (in January), he will probably make no appeal. Also in 1-A was:

Judge Charles Henry Cooper, 70-year-old father of Cinemactor Gary Cooper. The draft board that sent him his induction notice discovered it had summoned the wrong Charles Henry Cooper when the septuagenarian strode in and cried: "Well, here I am; when do I leave?"

Sluggers

Jinx Falkenburg, swore her Hollywood pressagent, was something more than a pin-up girl: students at an Army flight school (unnamed) had affixed her picture to planes in a really permanent way--she was the first rivet-up girl ever.

Olivia de Havilland, in contract difficulties in Hollywood, told a judge she had refused a role because a friend was about to leave for China for the duration, and: "I felt that with the interests of the country at heart, I should spend as much time with him as possible."

Errol Flynn, informed of an imminent war-bond auction in Portland, Ore., sent a lock of his hair.

Carol of Rumania, now of Mexico, called on his countrymen to revolt and join the United Nations, only two weeks after he had hired Pressagent Russell Birdwell to build him up as a democrat. Birdwell released the call to the news papers, appended a note announcing that he had dutifully registered with the Department of Justice as Carol's agent, added: "The fact should not be construed as approval of the United States Government of the contents of this release."

Pair

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were still around, seven weeks after they had arrived in the U.S. to see how the Duchess' ailing Aunt Bessie was doing up in Boston (she was doing all right). At Yale the Duke reviewed cadets, autographed a biography of Victoria. Few nights later he and the Duchess were in Manhattan, nightclubbing.

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