Two Other Fellows

Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, according to a now-it-can-be-told story, bamboozled Axis spies with a double, Lieut. Clifton James, peacetime actor. The double made a noisy departure for Africa, got a big official welcome in Algiers, set the spies to reporting the Marshal's absence from his invasion base just before Dday.

Lord Keynes, adviser to the British Treasury, now in Washington on business (TIME, Oct. 8) wrote to London's New Statesman and Nation to clear up two slight cases of mistaken identity: 1) because he had concluded his book The Economic Consequences of the Peace with a few lines from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, a lot of people got the idea that Keynes himself had written them; 2) another time he quoted 20 lines of Milton's Samson Agonistes, and was paid for them "at so much a word . . . though my glory was a little dimmed by their being printed as prose."

Alois Hitler, Adolf's half brother, released by the British after questioning, turned up at Hamburg's town hall to ask a favor: he wanted his name changed.

Adolf Hitler himself may still be lurking somewhere, according to the Netherlands radio. It quoted General Dwight D. Eisenhower as saying that there was "reason to believe" Hitler was still alive.

The Road Ahead

Maurice Dekobra, French novelist, specializing in svelte sex (Bedroom Eyes, The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars), foresaw the atomic destruction of almost everything except Tahiti, made out his will and sat down to await the end in Hollywood. He bequeathed his "17,000 books . . . paintings . . . works of art" to Tahiti, left his typewriter and Pomeranian to the Martians, signed his body over to science for the possible development of "a serum . . . against the seven capital sins."

Margaret Truman began her Senior year at George Washington University (with Secret Servicemen for escorts on the daily trip from home). Major: history. Courses: international relations, Pan-American problems, Far Eastern governments, modern European history, 19th-and 20th-century American and European art.

Eleanor Dall Boettiger, out of the limelight since she was Granddaughter "Sistie" at the White House, reached the ripe young age of 18, and entered Reed College in Portland, Ore.

Major General Claire Chennault, finding himself being talked up as next Governor of Louisiana, effectively deadpanned: "I'm an honest man; I know nothing about politics."

Showmen Lieut. General James H. Doolittle, who was quite a showman himself in his earlier air-race days, braved the hazards of an Olsen & Johnson show in Chicago, did all right.

Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri's swashbuckling little painter of lopsided Americana, arrived in Manhattan. Starting with Greenwich Village, he planned to paint outsize canvases of the skyscraper metropolis.

Frank Sinatra, long troubled about the "millions of people listening in" who have been irritated by the squealing of his fans, finally discovered how to keep the girls from chitter-barking. "I . . . tried everything--talking to them, reasoning with them--but still they squealed," so, he said, he decided to ban all applause till the end of the broadcast, and the faithful obeyed.

Home Again, Home Again

The Duke of Windsor, back in England for the first time since 1940, got an oldtime Glamor Boy's welcome as crowds of women (mostly middleaged) fought for a peek into his auto. The Duke went straight to his mother, Queen Mary, whom he had not seen for nine years; that night he dined with her, his brother the King and his sister the Princess Royal. Next day he visited the King for a 2 1/2-hour heart-to-heart. Getting back in stride, he unlimbered his golf clubs, and made a tour of East End bombed areas.*

Lauritz Melchior, Metropolitan Opera tenor, got back from Denmark with a brand-new Commander of the Cross of Danneborg decoration and a story about King Christian's escape hatch (never used). When he was a palace prisoner of the Germans, the King had a secret tunnel built from the palace to the rear of the royal washerwomen's dormitory, at the edge of the grounds.

Fritz Kuhn, ex-Bundist deported as an undesirable alien, stepped off the ship at Bremerhaven, Germany, was promptly arrested by U.S. military authorities as an undesirable native.

Nicolai Lenin's embalmed body was back in its Red Square mausoleum, and the Moscow News officially confirmed an old rumor--that it had been in Siberia, out of reach of the Germans, ever since 1941.

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, back in San Francisco, gave Banker Y. C. Woo a pen used at the Jap surrender ceremony; it was a pen the Admiral had borrowed from the banker four years ago.

Marlene Dietrich, still trouping for the troops, had her picture taken with her mother, Frau Josephine von Losch, at Berlin's Tempelhof Airdrome; Dietrich's taste for tailored togs appeared to be hereditary.

*Poking into a new (prefabricated) house, the Duke and his mother proceeded room by room to a bedroom where a man was sleeping. The man's wife woke him, told him who was calling. "Get on with you," said James Kirby, 47, gas-company employe, and promptly went back to sleep. Later on he explained: "I am a man who eats hearty and sleeps hearty. I'd had a good dinner. Lamb."

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