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Bernard Mannes Baruch peeled off $1,100,000 for teaching and research in "physical medicine"--the use of the healing properties found in such agents as air, light, heat, cold, massage and electricity. Physical medicine was originally recommended to Benefactor Baruch by his father, Confederate Surgeon Simon Baruch. Almost all ($900,000) of the gift went to Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York University's College of Medicine, the Medical College of Virginia (from which Baruch's Confederate-Surgeon father Dr. Simon Baruch graduated 82 years ago).

Eleanor Roosevelt gave her opinion on the problem of cartels. She approved of them as a means of world distribution, if under proper control, but warned that they might grow "into a control above that of governments. . . . What is bad is secret things that nobody knows about, whether it be in business or government."

Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, visiting Archbishop of York (TIME, April 17), explained to Washington newspapermen the difference between his title, Primate of England, and the Archbishop of Canterbury's. Said he: "It seems that the Archbishop of Canterbury is Primate of All England. The Archbishop of York is Primate of England--not all England, mind you, just England. . . . Once, in the Middle Ages, the Archbishop of Canterbury arrived first at a meeting and proceeded to take the head chair. Then the Archbishop of York arrived. Not to be outdone, he sat on the Archbishop of Canterbury's lap. I hope to heaven the Archbishop of Canterbury never attempts to sit on my lap."

Young Ones

Betty Grable James and Harry Haag James showed to press photographers for the first time their six-week-old, double pin-uppable Victoria Elizabeth ("Vicky") James.

Shirley Temple celebrated her 16th birthday with her first high-heeled shoes, heard Hollywood predictions that her comeback in the forthcoming Since You Went Away will be a smash hit. Her current flame is 17-year-old Dale Harris, who will appear with her in a subsequent film, Double Furlough.

Pen-Folks

Mae West, in Manhattan to star in her forthcoming Catherine Was Great, vowed that she had read at least twelve books on the great 18th-Century Russian before writing the play. Mae explained that Catherine "was really a great woman, she wasn't so crazy about men," and added that the play would have "two of everything, and twice as big."

Dr. Gaetano Salvemini, spade-bearded, spade-calling onetime anti-Fascist Italian legislator, Harvard historian (What to Do with Italy; TIME, Sept. 13), now teaching at University of California's Berkeley campus, pinned another of his poison-ivy notices on the laurel & olive of U.S. foreign policy. "Roosevelt and Hull know less about Europe than I know about Kentucky," he told West Coast newspapermen. "To be very frank, the policies of Roosevelt and Churchill so far as Europe goes are crazy. They don't know anything about it, and have poor advisers." Two days later the Hollywood Writers' Mobilization called off a speech they had invited Dr. Salvemini to give that night.

They had sought a guarantee that he would not "attack the United Nations or the policies of the U.S. as embodied in the Atlantic Charter and the Teheran agreement." Snorted 70-year-old Salvemini: "They can keep their money and go to hell. I will keep my self-respect."

Hibernians

Samuel Sidney McClure, original muckraking publisher (McClure's Magazine, 1893-1914), won the Order of Merit of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for his past journalistic crusades. Now white-thatched, withered, 87, the onetime editor of Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Winston Churchill's father Randolph has been working for years on a book called The Coming of Freedom. Said National Institute President Arthur ("Mr. Tutt") Train: "The American people owe a great debt to this man, once famous, now almost forgotten." Said old-time Editor McClure (who will get his medal--and $1,000--in May): "I am unfamiliar with [present magazines]. I haven't read one in ten years."

William Martin ("Bull Bill") Jeffers, Union Pacific office boy turned U.P. president, recently chief bridger of the wartime rubber gap, won the American Irish Historical Society's annual gold medal for outstanding achievement by a wearer of the green.

Men and Arms

John Curtin, homespun Prime Minister of Australia, on his first trip to the U.S. (TIME, April 24), did first things first at his first Washington press conference: he transmitted to "the government and the people of the U.S. . . . the profound gratitude of the Australian people for the assistance that has been rendered them." After the formalities, "Honest Jack" went for a stroll in Lafayette Park, found that he was being followed, soon found the two FBI men good company.

Grenadier Major William Sidney, son-in-law of Malta's Governor, Field Marshal the Viscount Gort, received the Victoria Cross "for superb courage and utter disregard of danger ... on the Anzio beachhead."

Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, warm-worded war correspondent, learned that he had been given partial credit for improving U.S. mechanized equipment. From Africa, to the jeep's makers (Willys-Overland), Pyle had written: "The jeep is a divine instrument of wartime locomotion [but the present hand brake] is perfectly useless." Last week Willys-Overland wrote to tell him that they had substituted a good, new internal-expansion brake for the bad, old external-contraction type.

Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, 37, famed U.S. poloist, second cousin of Winston Churchill, joined the Marines. Said he, polo will be forgotten after the war's end. "The world is changing and serious things must be considered."

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