Ups & Downs

Fiorello LaGuardia, who walks less delicately than Agag, was dropped by his sore-shinned radio sponsor. Five months after Liberty handed him "the freedom of the air," the magazine called it quits. The loud Little Flower was "at variance with our policies," as Publisher Paul Hunter put it. Reported LaGuardia: "Mr. Hunter ... told me . . . the advertisers didn't like my Sunday night radio program. They were pressing him hard. I have lost Liberty," he cried, "but I retain my soul."

Dean Cornwall, magazine illustrator turned muralist,* finished a Rockefeller Center shocker of a sort, though not to compare with Diego Rivera's, which once shocked the Rockefellers into scraping it off. Safe-&-sane Cornwell just shocked Vassar's art department, which stayed away from the dedication, explained by wire: "Vassar College cannot indulge in backing anyone so reactionary. . . ." They meant his old-timey art.

Harold E. Stassen stepped into a Pasadena, Calif, elevator, and too many stylish-stout members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce jammed in after him. The elevator struggled upward a half-story, halted, slid gently down to the basement.

Stars in Their Courses

Charles Spencer Chaplin had a week to remember. Three years after ex-Protegee Joan Berry had first brought a paternity suit against him, a court of appeals upheld the decision of a lower court and decided that he was indeed the father of her daughter, Carol Ann (now 2 1/2). And the Hearst press gave him the

Page One treatment for attending a champagne-&-blini party (for visiting Russian literary lion Konstantin Simonov) aboard a Soviet tanker off the California coast. Before the week was out, California Senator Jack B. Tenney had promised "a full-dress investigation"--"to learn whether there is a collaboration with potential enemies of our country."

Ralph Bellamy, star of the Pulitzer Prizewinning play State of the Union, won a fight to get the rent on his seven-room Manhattan apartment reduced. The OPA brought it clear down to a monthly $400, from $750.

Orson Welles talked like a square peg. "Actually, I don't like publicity," declared the fabulous Poo-Bah of Around the World (see THEATER). "I don't like to be photographed or interviewed. I'm afraid of being misquoted. I'm just a tired sort of male Katharine Hepburn."

Best-Salesladies

Taylor Caldwell, authoress of the current No. 1 fiction best-seller (This Side of Innocence), gave a Manhattan reporter an interview which made her look like Olivia Twist. She was not disciplined as a child, she told the New York Post--she was "brutalized." She nearly went blind for lack of glasses. She was put to work in a bindery at 15, lost most of her hair in a machine, later "made $22 a week in an office job--and got 65-c- of it for myself." She finally got through high school at 25, college at 30.

Marjorie KInnan Rowlings, Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist (The Yearling) was finally free of a $100,000 suit brought by an ex-friend who thought she was damaged by another Rawlings book, Cross Creek. Zelma Cason, Florida social worker, felt that the portrayal of "my friend, Zelma," had "taken a lady and made a hussy out of her." After listening to six days of testimony a jury thought not.

Warriors

Patton, Doolittle, Wedemeyer were finally out of West Point this week--General George S. Patton Jr.'s son, George, Lieut. General James H. Doolittle's son, John P., and Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer's son, Albert D. (eighteen other generals and two admirals had sons graduating in West Point's biggest class ever--875.) Rain washed out the Sunday review, but the biggest crowd in the Academy's 144-year history was on hand for the rest of June Week's whoop-de-do.

Al Schmid, blinded Guadalcanal hero (cinematized in Pride of the Marines), was chosen Father of the Year by the National Father's Day Committee.

Juan Peron, Argentine strong man who retired from the Army to get elected President, got back on the active list, was upped from Colonel to Brigadier General.

Generals Jorge Ubico and Federico Ponce, exiled bully-boy Presidents of Guatemala, had their commissions taken away from them by Guatemala's Congress.

Ex-Reichsmarshal Hermann Goring. lost another ten pounds, was now way down to 190.

Domestic Relations

James Roosevelt and second wife Romelle, parents of a 6^-month-old, expected their second (his fourth) next December. Father James confirmed the news (as he convalesced in a hospital after a minor operation), wondered aloud: "But how do these things get around, anyway?"

Faye Emerson, who retired from the screen last March for housewifery with Husband Elliott Roosevelt, was about to come out of retirement for a role in Enterprise Productions' Arch of Triumph.

Franchot Tone's second wife, Actress Jean Wallace (his first was Joan Crawford), took too many sleeping pills, but was "doing fine" after he had her rushed to a Los Angeles hospital for stomach-pumping.

Richard Joshua Reynolds, 40, multimillionaire tobacco heir-(Camels), onetime Democratic national treasurer, ex-Mayor of Winston-Salem, N.C., sued Wife Elizabeth for divorce, charging mental cruelty. (She had just sued him for separate maintenance, charged that he had spent some $100,000 on somebody else.) Reynolds' complaint: Wife Elizabeth had once told him he had "no sense, no education, and stayed drunk all the time."

Lieut. Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington's old girl friend. Lucy Rogers Malcolmson, missing since he charged her with stealing some $9,000 he sent her for the care of his children by his first wife, showed up to face the music at San Diego's county jail, got bailed out, improvised her own adaptation of an old song: "I can't understand why he loved me in January and filed criminal charges against me in May."

Shape of Things

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., speaking at a "career clinic" at Adelphi College (Garden City, L.I.), offered advice on marriage. Some of it: "Don't take your husband for granted. Don't let your brain be fallow. . . . Take an intelligent interest. . . . Don't be a yes-woman ... keep your criticisms to the minimum. . . ." A career and marriage can't be mixed in equal parts, said she, for "one is sure to become a hobby."

The Reverend Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdiclc, retiring after 42 years in the ministry, 20 years as pastor of Manhattan's towering Riverside Church, looked back and peered ahead in his farewell 'sermon. "This generation is up against . . . sheer paganism . . ." he observed. "Out of Russia has come an atheistic philosophy . . . which the Christian church in these coming years will confront in head-on collision."

Shapes

Bess Myerson, all wrapped up in a long white gown and a musicianly mood, played the piano at a "Pop" Concert in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, managed to overcome what she calls her "natural barrier": being Mjiss America, 1945. She -gave them Full Moon and Empty Arms. The audience liked it fine, clapped without prejudice.

Miss Ireland (Eleanor Graham) brought to Manhattan from the old country the solid advantages that had won her a monopoly of the title for six years, then trotted off to a little Pennsylvania town named Devon to visit her father. She would go back to Manhattan to model right away.

Mae Went, after several weeks on the road with Ring Twice Tonight, changed its title to Come On Up.

-According to Humorist Bugs Baer, "A muralist is a fellow who paints outdoor advertising indoors." -Only brother of the late Smith Reynolds, late husband of Singer Libby Holman, shot to death in 1932.

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