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On her first trip away from Hollywood in more than ten years, oldtime Cinemactress Marion Davies arrived in Richmond, Va. with her husband Horace Brown to meet his family. One of the points of interest was the First Precinct station, former headquarters for Brown when he pounded a beat on the Richmond force back in the early 1930's. Dressed in diamonds and a brand new, $15,000 mink coat (her old sable wrap, said Brown, was just too heavy "for my little pixie to carry around"), Marion went on a tourof the lockup. At the sight of some 30 smalltime crooks and drunks sleeping it off, the Christmas spirit struck. Marion offered to foot the fines for all concerned and empty the jail. The magistrate explained that such wholesale amnesty was impossible. However, he pointed to two regular customers who were sober enough to be released if their fines were paid. Marion paid off ($14.75 apiece), added a couple of dollars for pocket money, and threw in her autograph for one of the men, who said he would need it as proof among his friends that the story of his release was not just a spirited illusion.

At the finish of the zy-nation Western Hemisphere Labor Union Conference in Rio de Janeiro, the delegates were invited to the Cattete Palace to meet President Getulio Vargas. After waiting two hours and 20 minutes in a palace anteroom, Delegate John L. Lewis grumbled: "I never even kept a coal operator waiting more than two hours." At the meeting a few moments later, Vargas said to Lewis: "You look exactly like your pictures and cartoons." Replied Lewis: "Well, you look just like your pictures. I'd know you anywhere." The exchange ended when Vargas added, "They tell me you like cigars, too," and handed Lewis a long, expensive Bahia Charuto.

In Manhattan, Writer Mickey Spillane announced that he had sold the movie rights to his eight blood & gutsy thrillers for $250,000.

At the R.A.F. base at White Waltham, the Duke of Edinburgh, after a month of training, made his first solo flight.

In Cairo, the private fleet of 80 cars (including a 1939 black Packard fitted with a double bed) which exiled Farouk was forced to leave behind were put up for public sale. In London, a collector paid $2,940 for the custom-built, armored Mercedes-Benz which belonged to the late Hermann Goring.

The Honeywell school near Washington found, with surprise, that there was a Page One news story in the Christmas pantomime produced by its kindergarten class. One of the Christmas angels was Linda Susan Agar. four-year-old daughter of Shirley Temple. Day after the play, headlines announced that Shirley Temple's daughter had made her "stage debut." Shirley, who started making movies at three-and-a-half, huffily withdrew Susan from the school which, she charged, was "trying to commercialize on me or my daughter." Said the bewildered headmaster: "I am completely baffled."

In Manhattan, it was announced that Dr. Selman A. Waksman, winner of the 1952 Nobel prize for medicine, had established a fellowship in microbiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Reho-voth, Israel in memory of the late President Chaim Weizmann.

On Governor's Island in New York Harbor, the Army's senior cavalryman, Lieut. General Willis D. Crittenberger, 62, retiring as commander of the First Army, reviewed his last honor guard, enjoyed a ticker parade up Broadway to a City Hall reception, then headed west for a family Christmas with his son at Fort Sam Houston, where the general first reported for duty with the old 3rd Cavalry in August 1913.

The New York Dress Institute's annual list of the world's ten best-dressed women was increased to twelve this year, because heavy balloting for two newcomers resulted in a tie for eleventh place. The newcomers: Mamie Eisenhower and Oveta Gulp Hobby, recently appointed boss of the Federal Security Agency in the Eisenhower Cabinet. No. 1 on the list for the tenth year: the Duchess of Windsor.

Over Marignarie, France, Mrs. Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of France's President Auriol. piloted a jet Mistral 76 to a new women's world speed record of 534.92 m.p.h., bettering her own former record of 508.09 m.p.h., set last year.

With an announcement in Paris, the Duke of Windsor put an end to speculation which has kept protocol experts worrying: although he may be in London at the time, neither he nor the Duchess of Windsor will attend the coronation next June. Reason: "It would not be in accordance with constitutional usage for the coronation of a King or Queen of England to be attended by the sovereign or former sovereign of any state."

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