Slings & Arrows

Oklahoma's new law making women ligible for jury duty brought some sharp comment from quid-rolling ex-Governor 'Alfalfa Bill" Murray. The 81-year-old ather of the present governor, Johnston Murray, and president of the State Con-titutional Convention in 1906, croaked lis objections: "It isn't right to lock women up with men in a jury room and make hem stay all night together. They won't quit till they make it legal for women to go into men's toilets. That's what they'll be after next."

The District of Columbia bar admitted 350 new lawyers, including Frederick Moore Vinson, 26, son of the Supreme Court Chief Justice. The fledgling lawyers ot a welcome from District Court Judge Dickinson Letts, who had a note of cynicism for those who aspired to the bench. In these days of high taxes, he said, "it takes a peculiar damn fool to be a judge. The pay is like the old gray mare--t ain't what it used to be."

Randolph Churchill, who lost his parliamentary seat in Britain's general election, marked up another loss. For "failing to conform to a traffic sign," near Plymouth during his campaign, he was ordered to pay a fine of -L-1.

Indian Jim Thorpe, alltime great in U.S. athletic history (football, baseball and track), entered a Philadelphia hospital at 63 as a charity case to have a cancer removed from his lower lip. "We're broke," his third wife Patricia said. "Jim has nothing but his name and his memories."

Nods & Becks

Colonel Francis S. ("Gabby") Go-breski, 32, one of the country's leading aces (28 planes shot down in Europe, 3 MIG-iss in Korea) moved up the command ladder, became boss of the 51st Fighter Wing in Korea.

Another ranking jet ace of the Korean war, First Lieut. Ralph D. ("Hoot") Gibson, 27 (with 5 MIG-15s), hopped into his T-33 Jet and flew 600 miles from Selfridge Field, Mich, to attend a hero's welcome in his hometown of Mount Carmel, 111. (pop. 9,182). He had planned to drive his blue Cadillac convertible, said Gibson, but "my dad called me and told me that I better fly. He told me the roads were pretty bad, and that an awful lot of people got killed on the highways."

The University of Wichita, which annually names an opposition player as the "Outstanding Sportsman of the Year," picked a man who will not face their team this season. The trophy went to Drake's Negro Halfback Johnny Bright, the target of some unsporting slugging last month in the Oklahoma A. & M. game (TIME, Nov. 5). Out of the line-up with a fractured jaw, Bright has played the last game of his college career.

At the opening class of the American Baseball Academy in Manhattan's 212th A.A.A. Armory, Yankee Shortstop Phil

Rizzuto, who heads a faculty staff of nine major league stars, listened to some coaching tips from Elder Baseball Expert Bernard Baruch, first-baseman at City College of New York some 60 years ago. To 1,200 boys between the ages of 10 and 18, the staff will teach the finer points of baseball and sportsmanship.

Hearth & Home

Bandsman Artie Shaw arrived in Manhattan, fresh from London, with two prized possessions: the finished manuscript of his first novel, and Actress Doris Dowling, his choice for a seventh mate.

Shaw, whose hasty marriage record includes Lana Turner, Kathleen Winsor and Ava Gardner, announced that he was going to try a cooling-off period this time before going to the altar. Said he: "For the first time in my life, I'm engaged." And, he asked, what is wrong with trying marriage again? "Just because I intend to marry for the seventh time, you'd think I was guilty of something."

Barbara Mutton left Paris for Cologne, Germany to spend her 39th birthday visiting her old friend, aging (42) German tennis ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm. Could this be a romance? asked friends. Babs left them dangling. Rumors of an engagement with Von Cramm are "perfectly ridiculous," she said. "I have been married four times, and I don't feel young enough to become engaged again." But, she added with womanly logic, "this does not mean that I will not marry again."

Mrs. Ariane Allen Ross asked a Manhattan court for separation and alimony from craggy Editor Harold Ross of The New Yorker. His "mental cruelty," charged Mrs. Ross, who graduated from college a Phi Beta Kappa at 17, took several turns. Among them: calling her a "stupid, mediocre, banal bore." Furthermore, he refused to take her on social calls because he said her "stupidity, boring chatter and lack of poise embarrassed him and injured his reputation."

Betty (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Smith arrived in Reno for the usual reason. Her marriage to second husband Joseph Piper Jones had been "a noble experiment that failed." Said she: "It was wartime, and one of those three-day-pass situations." The charge would be incompatibility, not cruelty, "because he's a nice guy. We simply didn't have anything to talk about."

When Hungarian-born Zsa Zsa Gabor refused to co-star with her husband Cinemactor George Sanders on the Tallulah Bankhead radio show (because the lines "would have made my marriage look ridiculous"), Sanders took the afternoon off to pack his bags and leave his Hollywood home. Said he: "My wife asked me to get out, and I am in the process of doing so. I have been discarded like a squeezed lemon." For reporters covering the spat, Zsa Zsa (rhymes with maharajah) had a simple statement: "A woman has the right to quarrel with her husband in the afternoon because it is so much fun to make up in the evening."

In Manhattan, Zsa Zsa's older sister Maqda Gabor was having a quarrel with her insurance company. She was having trouble collecting a claim of $17,250 to cover assorted minks and gems stolen from her midtown apartment last winter. The policy would never have been written in the first place, said the company, if it had known all the facts. Magda is a well-known person, moving in highly publicized circles, and is therefore a "target risk," which neither she nor the insurance agent had bothered to mention.

In Germantown, Pa., a police court judge pronounced Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner man & wife.

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