Appointed a commissioner of the New York City Parole Commission was Henry Louis Gehrig, captain of the New York Yankees, benched last June by a little-known form of paralysis, after a 15-year headline career. His new job carries a $5,700 salary, a ten-year tenure.

Said Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England: "In my garden at Lambeth Palace are men who supply the balloon barrage and one of the balloons rises and descends every day in the garden. The men are good enough to call it the archblimp."

To the U. S. came a shocking photograph of bandy-legged, 6-year-old Crown Prince Akihito of Japan, taken at the botanical garden of the Tokyo Imperial University: the supposedly imperturbable son of the imperturbable Son of Heaven was snapped grinning.

As he left the office of humorless, earnest Attorney General Frank Murphy, a Washington reporter absentmindedly stuffed some documents in his pocket. Apologetically he returned them, wrote: "Dear Mr. Attorney General: I must have picked these up unconsciously." Replied the Attorney General: "Dear Bob: When I was judge that is what they all told me."

Into the office of Sheriff Smoot Schmid in Dallas, Tex., walked Richard Gray Gallogly, four days after escaping en route to Georgia's Tattnall State Prison, where he was to continue serving a life sentence for complicity in the "thrill-killing" of a drugstore cashier (TIME, Oct. 16). Said he: "I decided to flee to Texas, where they would give me a break."

From Lisbon, U. S. Minister to Portugal Herbert Claiborne Pell wrote the public school committee of Newport, R. I., offered them his Bellevue Avenue mansion for a high school, preferably to be named "Pell School." For compensation he asked $2, payable in two annual instalments. Said swell-shirted Pell: "I am making this offer because I believe that my house will be of great use to the city and that by its conspicuous location it will always be a visible sign of my regard for my fellow citizens."

In Manhattan, New York's onetime Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith filed nomination papers for City Councillor for his eldest son, Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. Buzzed old Al through his cigar, as cameras clicked: "You're starting on your own political career. If you achieve any part of the success I did, you'll keep the name alive."

Mrs. Grace Coolidge snubbed an invitation to the dedication of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Bridge at Northampton, Mass., showed up instead at the wedding of a friend's daughter. Officials recalled that fortnight ago she authorized Boston's Portia Law School (for women) to name a building for the dead President, saying that she believed the honor more fitting "than any memorial of stone or statuary."

When California's Governor Olsen pardoned Tom Mooney, Warren K. Billings, also convicted for bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day Parade, stayed in jail. Reason: he had been convicted before. Last week California's Supreme Court gave permission, and Governor Olsen commuted Billings' sentence, hinted he would soon go free.

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