Heirs

Charlie Chaplin, plagued by Joan Berry's latest claim (that her eight-month-old Carol Ann is "destitute"), inquired what had happened to the $10,700 he had thus far contributed to the infant's support. He also let it be known that he and his 19-year-old expectant Wife Oona (O'Neill) are summering at ex-wife Paulette Goddard's farm at Mount Ivy, N.Y.

Constance Bennett, who might or might not be 15-year-old Peter Bennett Plant's mother, finally won legal guardianship of him, after twelve years of claims and counterclaims, in & out of court. In 1932, two years after nicking the late Playboy Phil Plant for a $1,000,000 divorce, she said young Peter was her godson, formally adopted him. Last fall, during a skirmish with the Plant estate for a $150,000 settlement on young Peter, she said the boy was actually her son and Phil's. At other times there have been other explanations of Peter: i) he is the adopted child of an English woman; 2) the orphan of her cousin; 3) her son, but not Phil's.

Lieut. John S. D. Eisenhower and Ensign Ernest J. King Jr., graduated from West Point and Annapolis, went straight into service as their fathers had before them: Invader Ike Eisenhower, West Point '15, and COMINCH Ernie King, Annapolis '01.

On the Job

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, consulting engineer for United Aircraft and since March 1942 a Ford special consultant (with somewhat mysterious duties) at Willow Run, turned up in the Gilbert Islands, as a Navy instructor in high-altitude flying.

Aimee Semple MacPherson, 53, Los Angeles evangelist-in-white who prefers folding money in the collection plate, was back on the job after a tough bout with tropical fever: "I have been close to the valley of the shadow."

Jeff Davis, King of the Hoboes,*blew into the Secretary of State's office in Indianapolis, made his annual report on the state of his kingdom: 1,022,000 members, one typewriter, ten acres in Florida, $32 (in war bonds).

Admirals Harold Stark and Alan Kirk, Generals Carl Spaatz and James Doolittle were busy making history on the morning of June 6. While their planes bombed German communications and their ships took U.S. soldiers to Normandy, their wives saw service (see cut) on radio's far-flung Invasion Day front.

In a Dither

Lana Turner, deep in the throes of

three works-in-progress--1) a divorce from Husband Steve Crane, 2) reported trysts with Cinemactor John Hodiak (Lifeboat), 3) a pressagent's dream that her new hairdo would be adopted as the WACs' G.I.--blew up all over a Hollywood nightclub when a photographer caught her dancing with her escort, Actor Peter Lawford (see cut).

Armand Tokatyan, Bulgarian-born of Armenian parents, Egyptian-raised, Italian-trained, U.S.-naturalized tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, protested in fluent English ("My wife is highly emotional, selfish, headstrong, insanely jealous, quarrelsome and irresponsible") against his better half's plea for $250 weekly alimony pending separation. He said she once told him: "Your voice stinks." He also said, while denying various charges, that when a policewoman pinched him at Macy's lingerie counter, it was not because he had pinched her first.

Honored

Lieut. John F. Kennedy, second son of the ex-Ambassador to Britain, was given the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for "extreme heroic conduct" in rescuing two sailors when a Jap destroyer sliced his PT boat in two (TIME, Aug. 30).

King. George VI celebrated his official birthday (real birthday: December 14) with the traditional honors list. Notable recipients:

Professors Alexander Fleming and H. W. Florey, penicillinists--knighted;

Doctor Alwyn Douglas Crow, veteran infantryman mainly responsible, through five years of hazardous experimentation, for Britain's thundering anti-aircraft rocket barrage--knighted;

C. Aubrey Smith, veteran Hollywood character actor--knighted;

Viscount Halifax, Ambassador to the U.S.--made an earl*;

Sidney Webb (Lord Passfield since 1929), socialist, economist, historian-- given the Order of Merit;

The Dowager Marchioness of Reading, chairman of the Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence, made a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire;

General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, commander in chief in the Mediterranean theater--made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath;

Rear Admiral Sir Philip Vian, commander of the invasion's Eastern Task Force--made a Companion of the Order of the Bath.

Dishonored

Adolf Hitler--the inner man, not the facade--was denounced by the London Vegetarian Society: ". . . for some time Hitler has lived on liver extract."

And Yaboes--a Davis coinage for the 70,000 Yank hoboes in the armed services. *Lord Halifax said that, London willing, he would henceforth be known as the Earl of Halifax. This title, of which the Ambassador will be the fourth holder, originated with Charles Montagu (1661-1715), poet and financier extraordinary to William III, passed to his nephew, thence to his grandnephew, for whom Nova Scotia's capital was named.

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