Recipients

Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior and Administration jack of many trades, received a three-month-old Russian bear cub by plane from Persia, a gift to the U.S. Army from the Red Army, addressed to Ickes as U.S. Zookeeper, one of his least known odd jobs.

Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, second son of the President, was beribboned as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his leadership of the photo reconnaissance unit which took more than 5,500,000 pre-invasion photographs of Sicily.

George Bernard Shaw, confronted by Author William Saroyan's request for an interview on behalf of the New York Times, put a $1,000 price on the privilege, then invited Saroyan to tea on a nonbusiness basis. After long pondering over what tribute whimsey should pay wit, Saroyan finally loaded himself down with $20 worth of greengrocer specialties, including hothouse melon, asparagus, mushrooms. Roared Vegetarian Shaw "Everybody seems to think I'm starving."

The Dionne Quintuplets realized every child's ambition on their tenth birthday: Papa bought them a pony.

Bernard Baruch, twice in two days cited and dined, received the 1944 Churchman award and the 1944 National Institute of Social Sciences medal, both for humanitarianism. At the Churchman dinner Elder Statesman Baruch spoke words of humanitarian wisdom: "We are the most powerful nation in the world. . . . When the war is over no country will be able to improve the well-being of its people without our help. ... In another day, Cicero said the proudest boast a man could utter was 'Civis Romanus sum.' It is my prayer that our conduct may always be such as to carry greater praise in the accolade: 'I am an American.' "

Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, polished peacetime poloist (9 goals), second cousin of Winston Churchill, peeled his way through five weeks of boot training at Parris Island, S.C., got commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps.

John D. Rockefeller Jr., the world's greatest giver (of an estimated $170,000,000), was on the receiving end of a well-publicized (see cut) contribution to the United Negro College Fund (TIME, May 15). His take: $25.

Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, squarely seated on the presiding archiepiscopal throne of Manhattan's jampacked St. Patrick's Cathedral for the celebration of the Mass of Pentecost,/- blinked not an eyelash when a slight, Sunday-dressed worshiper stood up at the altar rail, heaved two poorly aimed eggs which splattered at the Archbishop's feet. The egg-thrower, a meek Czech alien, explained to the police: the Archbishop had "said something I didn't like."

On the Move

Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, Pittsburgh's rugged redhead who won the Congressional Medal of Honor near Altavilla (TIME, March 20), began a 90-day tour of U.S. Army camps, after making a confession: "Being a hero is the bunk. I wish I was going across."

Marlene Dietrich, currently conquering the otherwise unconquerable Fighting French on the Italian front, was returning from a hospital show when she spotted two French officers struggling with an overturned jeep, promptly put her khaki-colored legs to work; helped straighten things out.

Albert Einstein, corona-haired saint of science who became a U.S. citizen in 1940 and casts his first presidential vote next November, plumped for a Fourth Term: "There is no doubt that in the present international situation it is very dangerous to change leadership."

Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, nettled at the Navy's dillydallying decision to delay until 1945 his trial for the Pearl Harbor disaster,* wrote a letter to Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, declared the "whole story of Pearl Harbor" has not been told, requested a "trial by court-martial at the earliest practicable date."

Friends & Relatives

Barbara Hutton, $40,000,000 five-&-dime heiress, had a book on mother care thrown at her by ex-husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who filed suit for custody of their nine-year-old son Lance. He charged her with neglecting to send Lance to school, allowing his teeth to decay, using "coarse and vulgar language" when he stayed with her and his stepfather, Cinemactor Gary Grant. The Count also charged that Lance had been encouraged to write coded notes to his mother, exhibited a decoded sample: "To hell with my father. I would like it if he died."

Samuel Untermyer, millionaire lawyer, politico, orchid fancier, who died in 1940, was revealed in an executor's account to have set up a $30,000-a-year trust fund for his "very dear friend," Mrs. Marguerite Herczeg, widow of a Hungarian nobleman. Mrs. Herczeg was "astonished to learn the secret was out."

/-The newsy New York Times gave its story of Pentecost Mass a busy headline: HOLY GHOST HAILED AS SPIRIT OF LOVE. *Jointly accused with Admiral Kimmel is Major General Walter C. Short. Both are now on ihe voluntary retired list, drawing $6,000 annual pension.

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