Reservations

Nelson Rockefeller, whose father always told him to watch his dollars & cents, got a carefree feeling during the Mexico City Conference. Handed a 7,000 peso ($1,449) check for a diplomatic party he threw at Giro's, the Assistant Secretary of State,cracked: "Who do you think I am, Rockefeller?"

Greer Garson let her temper simmer to a slow boil when a Hollywood stocking manufacturer claimed that she was bowlegged, had to wear padded stockings. Green-eyed, Oscar-winning Cinemactress Garson said that the only picture in which she showed her legs full-length was Random Harvest, insisted: "Those were my own legs . . . there were no complaints from the paying customers."

Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., 43, back with his old law firm since his Army discharge last fall, recalled his grand-slam golfing days by burning up Atlanta's Capital City Country Club course with a five-below-par 65. Urged by fellow Atlantans to enter their $10,000 tournament in April, Bobby said: "I will when I get my game down to the point where the gallery will be safe."

Jimmy Durante announced that he was ready to go on a U.S.O. tour overseas, on one condition: "I gotta live where you can hear good noises. Autos and auto horns. Birds and bees are not for me."

Earl Browder, acting for the self-proclaimed nonpolitical Communist Political Association, contributed a $5,000 check to the nonpolitical Freedom House campaign fund for the Wendell L. Willkie Memorial Building (TIME, Feb. 26), explained that it was "a public recognition of a debt" for Willkie's "defense ... of the right of American Communists to full citizenship. . . ." Freedom House's directors promptly returned the Browder check because of its "political implication," explained: "We advocate full collaboration with the Soviet Union ... in the prosecution of the war . . . [but] Wendell Willkie was outspoken in his criticism of American Communists."

Speaking of Wolves

The Earl of Halifax, who once said that he would rather be Master of Fox Hounds than Prime Minister, prepared to set out on a tour of the U.S. Southwest, looked forward to a ride to hounds in the best Oklahoma tradition--a wolf hunt.

Errol Flynn's private life was again public property: 1) Hollywood heard that he would be sued for divorce by Nora Eddington, who last month named him as the father of her daughter (TIME. Feb. 12); 2) Nora denied that she would sue; 3) Flynn, as usual, had no comment on that subject; 4) caught in a rarely talkative mood in Atlanta, Ga., he confided to reporters: "I'm almost afraid of women. When I meet a girl I like, I hesitate to tell her who I am. My reputation is too hot. . . . I'm not really [a] wolf."

Turning a Dollar

Elsa Maxwell, who never wears jewels at the smartly publicized parties she gives at others' expense, was judged in Manhattan's City Court to owe a $2,980.74 jewelry bill, ordered to fork over the $996.47 in her checking account to be applied against the judgment. Elsa said that she had helped sell a $30,000 emerald to Cinema Producer Jack Warner, took the $2,980.74 in jewelry instead of a commission. "There are dozens of society women," she said, "who sell jewels on commission."

Winston Churchill's longtime bulldog faith in the solidarity of the British Empire was revealed in a 44-year-old wager made public by a Manhattan rare-book dealer, who had just purchased the sheet of paper on which Churchill had written out the terms of the bet. On Jan. 23, 1901, while on a lecture tour of the U.S., Churchill bet -L-100 against Minneapolis Bibliophile James C. Young's assertion that "within ten years from this date the British Empire will . . . lose one quarter of India or of Canada or of Australia."

Wending Their Way

Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, who separated from her husband, Pasquale ("Pat") di Cicco, three weeks before she came into an inheritance of some $4,700,000, entrained for Reno's divorce mill, was caught with her guard down by an alert photographer en route.

General Douglas MacArthur had a happy reunion in Manila: the first refrigerator ship to enter the harbor since the city's liberation steamed up from Australia, debarked his 45-year-old wife, Jean, and six-year-old son, Arthur.

Decorations Lieut. Colonel Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. 42, who quit the U.S. Senate last year to fight in Italy and France, was decorated with the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre with palm.

Sergeant Sabu ("Elephant Boy") Dastagir, 22-year-old Indian who gained fame & fortune in peacetime films riding on the back of an elephant, was awarded the D.F.C. for riding a U.S. bomber as a tail gunner in an attack on a Japanese convoy off Borneo.

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