Women at Work

In Indianapolis, the Indiana House of Representatives thought it would be nice if the local theater attraction, Mae West, would pay them a visit. Representative John R. Ryan, appointed a committee of one to extend the invitation, brought back his report: "She can't come. She asked me what time we met, and I told her 10 a.m. She said: 'Jack, where I come from, the roosters don't even take off their muzzles until 11:30 a.m.' "

At a Washington newswomen's luncheon, Guest of Honor Anna Rosenberg was asked if she had mastered "government procedure." Said the new Assistant Secretary of Defense: "Where procedure is concerned, ignorance is bliss. When I want something done, I call up a friend. He says all right, and the next day the job is done. Later, I find the proper procedure was to go through 18 offices, make seven carbons, wait three weeks, and spend several dollars in the process."

In the hubbub of Washington, said Alice Roosevelt Longworth, "I'm privileged. I occupy a position of malevolent detachment."

In London, outspoken Lady Astor spoke out again: "I hope the English have not lost their power of protesting, for protesting against what is wrong made us great. My husband says I protest every time I get on the railways. Well, it's our job to protest. When I see some of our railway people with their jackets undone, I say to them: 'Who do you think you are --Italians? Button up your jackets.'"

Victoria Kelly was learning to look her five-year-old best for photographers, with the expert coaching of her mother, Lens Veteran Brenda Frazier Kelly, 29, glamor queen of cafe society a decade ago.

In Rome, Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman was working again for the first time in a year and a half. The job: dubbing in her own voice, in Italian, for the local version of husband Rossellini's Stromboli.

It was not that Princess Margaret followed a fox hunt part of the way in a comfortable station wagon. Britain's League Against Cruel Sports was aroused to an angry resolution because she appeared at all: "The Princess cannot be aware of the views which a very large number of British people hold about fox hunting ... an amusement which is regarded . . . with absolute loathing and abhorrence, by reason of its inherent cruelty to the unfortunate animal involved."

Men in Motion

His arthritis better after nine months' treatment in a Boston hospital, Raoul Dufy, 73, French master of fine line and delicate color, had some advice for young artists: "The one big fault with Americans is that they do not see what is around them until they see it in a picture . . . the young American artist [should] learn to see, to break himself of the habit of not seeing. I would say to him, break all the cameras, never take a photograph, never look at a photograph. Then paint."

For its new dean, Washington Cathedral picked the rector of St. Paul's Church, Cleveland, the Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., 36, son of the former U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines and grandson of Woodrow Wilson.

In Cairo, during an international soccer match between Egypt and Vienna, photographers snapped a listless rooter in a grimace of royal disgust: Bulgaria's exiled King Simeon II, 13, who had left his classes in Alexandria's Victoria College to see the game.

William D. Rockne, 35, son of Notre Dame's late, famed Football Coach Knute Rockne, was taken to a Wichita, Kans. hospital with bullet wounds in his liver, lung and heart. Police said young Rockne, who spent three years in a mental institution in the '30s, was shot trying to break into the house of a wealthy used-car dealer.

Worldly Goods

The deaths of two old friends made Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, 66, really thoughtful: "As I grow older I get the feeling that we should put our house in order, so to speak, and not leave too many things at loose ends, for when will our own call come? . . . The difficulty about getting these things accomplished is that you always think a little more time lies before you. And yet when you open the morning paper and read that someone you talked to a short few days ago is gone, it makes you stop, look and listen . . ."

To Yale University Library, the late Sinclair Lewis left all his "books, manuscripts, pictures and private papers of every sort . . ."

Fire licked down a wooden pier and set ablaze the old decommissioned transport tied in Baltimore harbor. Confiscated from Germany, a troop transport in two wars, a passenger liner in the '20s with a record of three groundings, three collisions, two murders, Prohibition raids and countless small fires, the George Washington, which carried Woodrow Wilson and a cargo of great hopes to the Versailles Peace Conference, was gutted beyond repair.

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