The Younger Generation 2nd Lieut. John Eisenhower, just out of West Point and expecting a 30-day furlough before reporting to Fort Benning's Infantry School, instead realized the dream of every shavetail: by direct orders of General George C. Marshall, he was given a 30-day assignment on the personal staff of the Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces. The Lieutenant got to England in time to visit the beachhead with his father.

Walda Winchell, 17-year-old blond daughter of Columnist Walter Winchell, signed a renewal contract with 20th Century-Fox, assumed the cinemalias. Toni Eden, commemorating her current crush, Britain's Foreign Secretary.

Lieut. Commander Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., formally addressing a group of Long Island grammar-school graduates, told of the time his damaged destroyer was repaired by the ship's crew, explained with simple, declarative profanity: "Some of the boys didn't know exactly what to do, but they knew sure as hell how to find out what to do damned quick."

Lieut. Commander Chester W. Nimitz Jr., only son of CINCPAC Chester W. Nimitz, was awarded the Navy's Gold Star for "conspicuous heroism" in "actions resulting in sinking enemy shipping and in damaging other vessels."

Near Misses George Hicks, Blue Network war-caster (TIME, June 19), exhaustedly napping by the side of a Normandy road, was about to be tossed into a truck loaded with bodies for burial when he was seen and salvaged by a passing officer.

Major General Claire Chennault, easing along a Chinese dance floor, ranked no higher than any man with a captivating partner, when a chipper, dare-devil-named corporal Christopher Colombo, cut in.

Points & Views Brigadier General Frank Merrill, jungle-wise commander of Merrill's Marauders, took time out in Burma to read a letter from the Human Engineering Society of Newark, NJ. Enclosed with a photograph showing the General smoking a pipe was a plea that he and his raiders, as an example to American youth, abstain from smoking.

Thomas Mann, German author in exile (see BOOKS), who has two sons in the U.S. Army, became a U.S. citizen (as did his wife), predicted the fall of his fatherland within a year: "I do not believe the German people and the German Army can stand another winter. . . ."

Doris Duke Cromwell picked up where estranged Husband James H. R. ("Jimmy") Cromwell left off in their double-talking divorce marathon, filed a motion in Reno's court seeking to invalidate his New Jersey invalidation of her earlier Nevada divorce (TIME, May 22). She gave him 30 days in which to answer her new double-barreled charge: Cromwell's New Jersey court claim that she perpetrated a fraud on the Nevada court was "gross fraud" on his part.

Rudy Vallee, land-lubbing Coast Guard lieutenant (bandmaster), got ditched for the second time by his six-months wife, 19-year-old-Cinemaspirant Betty Jane Greer, who vowed, "This time I mean business." Said she of the thrice-married "Vagabond Lover": "Rudy is an incurable bachelor. He's just not meant to be married."

Beniamino Gigli, huffy-puffy, onetime Metropolitan Opera tenor repatriated in 1939, was invited by the British to sing at a concert in Rome, then disinvited at the last moment by U.S. Army officials, after his fellow Romans sounded off about his late pro-fascism (TIME, June 19). Gigli, whose announced selection for the concert was I Close My Eyes to Dream, declared himself an artist, not a politician, said: "I'll sing for the British and Americans . . . but I'll never sing for the Italians again."

Money Talks Louis B. Mayer, M.G. Monarch just separated from his wife after 40 years of marriage, was separated from $560,000 of his proposed $1,060,000 salary for 1944 (his million-plus last year made him the U.S.'s highest-salaried swivel chairman). Loew's Inc., which signs M.G.M. pay checks, proposed the money-saving, as part of a program to provide a retirement plan for M.G.M.'s 4,300 workers (including William Powell, Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Spencer Tracy, whose annual pensions would be $49,700 each).

John Golden, top money-maker of all Broadway producers during the last 28 years (recent big hit: Claudia), "rich uncle" to thousands of stage-struck youngsters and hard-pressed oldsters, set up a $100,000 fund for his pet project: a subsidized national theater.

Fuzzie Wuzzies Humphrey Bogart and Greer Garson, voted the best cinemactor and actress by General MacArthur's troops, got the first "Fuzzy Wuzzy" Oscars: effigies of Fiji Islanders mounted on fragments of Jap airplane metal.

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