Coming & Going

New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer, in & around the Caribbean on vacation, got the key to San Juan from its lady mayor and a thumping, flag-waving welcome from the Puerto Ricans. To Dominicans later he confessed that some well-meant shouts of the Puerto Rican populace had been: "Viva O'Guardia!"

The Duke & Duchess of Windsor celebrated the Duke's 54th birthday at the Stork Club, next day sailed off for their occasional home in France, with a modest retinue and 120 pieces of luggage.

Doris Duke ("Richest-girl-in-the -world") Rubirosa arrived safe & sound at her occasional home near Honolulu without the Dominican Ambassador to Argentina, whom she married in Paris only last September. She said that she was just taking a little vacation, and husband Porfirio might turn up later.

Handsome Lady Mountbatten flew home from New Delhi with her handsome husband, who had just retired as Britain's last Governor General of India (TIME, June 28), after a well-nigh unforgettable leave-taking from his successor, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (see cut).

Chapter & Verse

The persuasive powers of poetry got thumping recognition from Robinson Jeffers' publisher. Next month Jeffers' new book of verse would contain a cautious note-to-the-reader: "Random House feels compelled to go on the record with its disagreement over some of the political views expressed in this volume . . ."

Clare Boothe Luce paid tribute of a sort to Eleanor Roosevelt, another writer, by urging her on the Democrats as their ideal candidate for Vice President. Her theory: Harry Truman might well ride into a new term on Eleanor Roosevelt's coattails. "I dare to suggest this winning formula to the Democrats," the Republican ex-Congresswoman concluded, "because it is almost certain that, being men first and Democrats second, they will not have the courage, vision or intelligence to adopt it."

Charles (The Lost Weekend) Jackson, bestselling scratcher of the seamy side, was called to Hollywood to write the movie script for Feodor Dostoevsky's The Eternal Husband.

Harold Nicolson, not only a writer (Swinburne, People and Things), but a respectable fellow (longtime M.P. and Foreign Office man), was finally picked by George VI as just the man to be the official biographer of George V.

T. S. Eliot, England's American-born poet-in-residence, got a Doctorate of Literature from Oxford.

E. B. White, a founding stylist of the New Yorker, got an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale.

Lin Yutang, who not only wrote Importance of Living but managed to invent a Chinese typewriter, was chosen by UNESCO as just the man to head its Arts & Letters section.

"The life of a literary man who has achieved success," observed Somerset Maugham in the Atlantic, "is not as a rule interesting . . . His profession obliges him to devote a certain number of hours a day to his work . . ."

Plus & Minus

In Manhattan, Adolf Hitler's custom-built, gangster-model Mercedes-Benz (135-m.p.h. speed, bulletproof glass, adjustable armored plate) was delivered to its buyer, a man named Christopher G. Janus. Having done more looking backward than ahead, Janus admitted: "Now that I've got it, I'm not sure . . . what to do with it."

British-born Cinemactress Ida Lupino, on the occasion of her becoming a U.S. citizen after some 15 years in & around Hollywood: "I am deeply grateful for the courtesies I have received here."

In the Vatican, Pope Pius XII received 570 devout Catholic workers, who delivered to him some samples of their handiwork: a motorized bicycle and an electric toaster.

Welcomed by the Detroit Institute of Arts was Mrs. Edsel Ford's $100,000 low relief in stone from her late husband's collection.* It was 15th Century Sculptor Desiderio da Settignano's Profile Portrait of a Young Woman, who managed to look both wistful and stately (see cut).

Listed in a partial inventory of the late Henry Ford's estate: $26.5 million in personal bank accounts, an item of $20 "due from the sale of hay."

Actress Peggy Wood, longtime top-ranking sweet young thing, now playing mother roles: "Every age has its particular compensations."

Left by McClelland Barclay, famed pretty-girl illustrator lost in action in 1943: $177,903.

Sued for $465,812.24 in back income taxes: perjurious former General Benny Meyers, who stayed near home and made money.

From Bulgaria's goat-bearded ex-King Ferdinand, ruler for 31 years and royal exile for 30 more, to Gus Phillips (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941), a Falls City, Neb. railroad engineer, went a letter: "On account of my great age and rather poor health, I am very glad and thankful when my dear overseas friends send a CARE package to me. Perhaps you also could help me by such a parcel." Gus, who once knew Ferdinand's railroad-crazy late son Boris (he once sent Boris a streamlined model electric train and got a diamond stickpin and 16 bottles of rare Bulgarian wine in return), promptly sent a CARE package on its way to papa Ferdinand in Coburg, Germany.

Grandma Marlene Dietrich (see MILE STONES), asked her opinion of today's Hollywood glamor girls : "There are none."

Flesh & Blood

Babe Ruth, 53, whose throat ailment has had him in & out of hospitals for almost two years, was in again, for a "check up" and a good rest.

Rita Hayworth, 29, spent the week in a Paris hospital, getting injections and a transfusion for anemia and exhaustion.

Lana Turner, 28, honeymooning with Bob Topping in Europe, went to bed with influenza in Heidelberg.

Walter Reuther, 40, well on the mend from his attempted murder last April, came down with malaria.

Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire (ret.), longtime physician to Franklin Roosevelt, was treated for bruises after he: 1) addressed the American Red Cross convention in San Francisco; 2) fell off the flower-banked speakers' platform.

Paul Whiteman, 57, "King of Jazz" of the '20s, suffered superficial injuries and a $5 fine for careless driving when he smashed his car against a telephone pole near Williamstown, N.J.

Tiara-bearing Betty Henderson, 72, antic favorite of Manhattan society columnists (she's the one who hoisted her leg on to a table at the opera opening last fall), wore a bandaged hand after a recreational workout at Packey O'Gatty's Gym. She busted it hoisting the jaw of her sparring partner.

* The latest gift in a series of presentations, begun some 20 years ago by Edsel, continued by his widow since his death in 1943.

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