Change of Station

Jackie Cooper, whose last film (Where Are Your Children?) dealt with juvenile delinquency, acquitted last month of contributing to the delinquency of two teen-aged girls, was "washed out" as a V12 naval trainee at the University of Notre Dame because of scholastic deficiency, got transferred to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station as an apprentice seaman.

Lady Chatterley, the late D. H. Lawrence's famed free-loving heroine, had one account of her conduct upheld. New York State's Court of Special Sessions considered The First Lady Chatterley (tepid first version of Lady Chatterley's Lover), found by a 2-to-1 decision that there was "reasonable doubt" of its obscenity.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who last week got the House of Commons' approval to put off Britain's next general election until the war in Europe ends, declared that several months should elapse between the end of fighting and voting time, in order to organize election machinery and arrange for soldier voting. With a characteristic Churchillian twinkle he gave another, equally important reason: "This also would be fair to the political parties and candidates who have to set about one another in the usual lusty manner."

William Temple became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in history to be cremated (his ashes were buried in the ancient cloisters of Canterbury's bomb-pocked Cathedral).

Technical Sergeant Lew Ayres, serving on Leyte as a chaplain's assistant with U.S. liberation forces, helped give medical treatment to Filipino victims of Jap bombings. Recognized by natives from his cinema role as Dr. Kildare, he said: "It gave me more of a thrill to be recognized by these people than by movie fans in the U.S."

Change of Heart

Veronica Lake, streamlined Rapunzel, whose divorce from Major John Detlie, peacetime Hollywood art director, becomes final on Dec. 2, announced her engagement to Andre de Toth, 29, Hungarian-born cinema director.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, perennial optimist, said she had made no bets or prophecies on the election, explained: "Constitutionally, I'm a pessimist."

Change of Pace

Gertrude Atherton, taffy-haired, well-rouged, rejuvenated novelist (The Black Oxen, The House of Lee), celebrated her 87th birthday by announcing the completion of her 41st book, Golden Gate Land, a 100,000-word history of her native northern California. She also delivered some birthday thoughts, called the Germans a "nation of fools," declared they should be shown "no mercy." Of the Japanese, she remarked: "Barbarians--they don't belong on this planet at all."

Lauritz Melchior, big, Danish-born No. 1 Wagnerian tenor of the Metropolitan, on vacation in South Dakota's Black Hills, dressed himself in demi-Danish hunting costume, by special permit brought down an 1,800-lb. buffalo (see cut).

Henry Agard Wallace, in Manhattan last week to wind up his speaking campaign for Roosevelt and Truman (see U.S. AT WAR), did some running himself. His two-man police escort left him in their car for a few minutes, returned to find him gone. They spotted him running down the street, gave chase. After two and a half blocks a pedestrian, thinking the Vice President a fugitive, grabbed him. The police guard was doubled, but Wallace soon started running again, easily beat his four frantic, panting guards on a five-block race down crowded Broadway to the Hotel Astor. Explained Wallace: "I just had to get some exercise."

Clark Gable, making his first public appearance since he was placed on the Army inactive list, was mobbed a la Sinatra by 500 screaming women who chased him through Hollywood's NBC studio. Said he: "They scared hell out of me. I was planning on a steak at the Brown Derby. ... I settled for a ham sandwich at home."

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