Men at Work

Father Divine bounded back into the limelight with a transcendental bang. "I have harnessed it!" cried he in Philadelphia, after a long, dry spell of unpublicized flock-tending. "I say, I have harnessed it! I am the author and the finisher of the atomic energy. I am bringing all of the atomic energy into subjection and by it I am bringing out many inventions! That is what I am doing on earth in heaven today!"

Byron Nelson, king of professional golfers, idle-hour Texas farmer, packed ten dozen eggs into his car, set out with Wife Louise for a stay in Fort Worth and a crack at its Open Golf Tournament. Nelson failed to keep his eye on the ball, skidded on a wet highway, turned turtle. Husband & wife climbed out, uninjured, thoroughly egg-nogged. Tournament winner: Nelson.

Fiorello LaGuardia, New York's outgoing Mayor, Liberty magazine's incoming radio commentator, had in hand 1) a shiny new Packard sedan, free, from the U.S. Conference of Mayors; 2) two more jobs. Beginning Jan. 6 he will do a local broadcast for a dairy firm, and write a weekly Sunday column for the leftist Manhattan tabloid PM, which took a proud half-page to announce the news.

Style & Beauty

Paul Varies ("Adonis of the Wabash") McNutt, usually grey-suited (to blend with his platinum-grey hair), conformed to fashion in Manila, draped his shape in khaki, but added a McNutt touch: on the collar of the High Commissioner to the Philippines glowed golden ornaments--decorative versions of his seal of office.*

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, made hot fashion news again. Paris flashed word to the New York Herald Tribune that Her Grace had bought two Schiaparelli numbers: a green taffeta formal gown with a full skirt, and a tailored black moire, with "the low-cut neck line forming draped sleeves."

Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, of Nebraska, in the heat of a Manhattan debate with OPA Director Chester Bowles, practically modeled a peach slip. To make his point, the 53-year-old ex-merchant and embalmer snatched some illustrative ladies' wear from a suit box, glared from behind it as he snorted, "Why, you can't tell the front from the back," cried: "That's the kind of sacks Chester Bowles is hanging on the women of America!"

Younger Generation

Eugene O'Neill Jr., assistant professor of Greek at Yale, unpublicized son of the playwright, half brother of much-publicized Oona (Mrs. Charles Chaplin), grandson of the late Actor James O'Neill, had a fling at theatrics himself. His role, in a one-night stand in Manhattan: narrator at a costumeless, setless reading of Oedipus Rex, which he characterized in a New York Times article as "so human that it makes you shudder ... so tense that it stretches your soul. . . ."/-

WAC Sergeant Muriel McCormick Hubbard, 43, wealthy granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller Sr. and Harvester King Cyrus McCormick, spent a night in jail in Marysville, Calif., paid a $100 fine for drunken driving. Two cops had found her asleep in her Packard, wakened her, let her go, then watched her drive into a palm tree. Said Army officers at Camp Beale of Sergeant Hubbard: she's "doing a wonderful job" in personnel work.

Samuel F. B. Morse's grandson, Pianist Walter Morse Rummel, was blacklisted in the American zone in Germany as an ex-Nazi stooge. Born in Berlin to the daughter of the telegraph inventor's second wife, he had lived in the U.S. as a child, returned to Germany at 17, taken German citizenship in 1944. His mother once taught the Bible to President-to-be Teddy Roosevelt.

Money Makers

Louis B. Mayer of Hollywood was top man again (for the seventh consecutive year) on the Treasury's list of best paid citizens. His token of gratitude from Loew's, Inc.: $908,070.

President Charles E. Wilson of General Motors ran a poor second: $459,041.

President Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines was a fairly close third: $425,548.

Deanna Durbin, only woman among the first ten, squeaked into last place with $326,491, just ahead of Barbara Stanwyck.

Lodging for the Night

Thomas E. Dewey reported a parlous situation in the governor's mansion in Albany. The bathroom in the McKinley guest suite needed a new toilet seat, but for three months, said Dewey, "the entire majesty of New York State and all the resources at its command" proved unable to find one. Shocked sympathizers promptly dispatched replacements--one by air from Tacoma, Wash.

Governors Ellis Gibbs Arnall of Georgia and Frank J. Lausche of Ohio, anxious to ease the housing shortage, were ready to take lodgers in their executive mansions if the law okayed it.

Family Affairs

King George VI quietly, unofficially turned 50, marked the day by 1) a family luncheon party, 2) a dinner for 20 guests, 3) a dance for 100. Britain's sovereign will not have his official 50th birthday for six months. The reason: English weather smiles more happily on June birthday celebrations.

Empress Dowager Sadako of Japan, moon-faced "Mother of God," finally came down from the heaven-nestling mountain resort of Karuizawa for a palace visit with her Emperor son. She had ascended about the time of Japan's surrender, remained on high ever since.

Fever Chart

Diana Roosevelt, 18, Eleanor's niece and a George Washington U. freshman, failed to keep her feet in the stirrups at a horse show in Silver Springs, Md. Results: her own mount threw her, another kicked her, fractured her skull, broke her jaw. Hospital report: "Doing well."

Hedy Lamarr collapsed on a Hollywood set, went home with flu.

Bert Acosta, pioneer transatlantic flyer (1927), was hospitalized in Manhattan, with an abdominal abscess.

General George S. Patton Jr. sat up in bed for the first time since his neck-breaking auto crash, faced an uncertain future with good humor and good appetite. He moved his shoulders, still could not move his hands or legs.

* Which involves a sea lion, an eagle, olive branches and arrows. /-The Times's reaction to the performance: "Somewhat less than satisfactory."

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