A dispatch from Beirut, Syria reported that General Maxime Weygand had during the winter not only whipped into shape the Allied Army of the East, but also read and finished Gone With the Wind.
The Harvard Lampoon chose "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan as movie actress most unlikely to succeed. Said she in Hollywood, where she earns approximately $100,000 a year: "I wonder what those bozos think is success. ... I don't mind criticism, but I hate to have it come from Harvard. ... I met a Harvard man once, myself. It was a very sad evening. . . ."
Chicago police rounded up a citizen whose name would have sent cold shivers down their backs ten years ago. The man: Matthew Capone, 31 (youngest, favorite brother of Al Capone), wanted for questioning about a brawl in a barbecue stand over an argument about payment of a dinner check.
Since the war began, cocky British Fuehrer Oswald Mosley was reported in London to have found a new pastime, cookery. His specialty: lobster mousse.
Tall, broad-shouldered Baritone John Charles Thomas arrived at LaGuardia Field, N. Y. eleven minutes late to catch a plane, found it had left four minutes before, after waiting seven minutes. "Sorry," said American Airlines. "You're sorry!" snorted Singer Thomas. "I am the one who is sorry. I have 3,000 people waiting for me in Syracuse. ... I have bookings of 10,000 miles with you during the next three weeks, but I'll walk first." He chartered a cabin plane to make his appointment. Cost: $124. gress and because no other President's wife has been so much the topic of conversation," Dr. George Gallup took a poll on the popularity of Eleanor Roosevelt. The President's Gallup rating: 64%. Hers: 68%.
Dorothy Knight, in process of divorcing her husband, Manhattan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight (who last year stood on his head in the Metropolitan Opera House), dropped her suit, went with him on a second honeymoon to Hot Springs, Ark. Said she: "It was the long-distance calls that really got me, wore me down and out. I had to sleep with the telephone under the bed the whole time I was in Reno. The children couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep.
The dogs couldn't sleep and the cat didn't know what to make of it." Said he: "It was all due to my Southern charm." From Cophill House School near Oxford to the Admiralty in London went a note and a school rhyme from Master William Shakespeare to his father, Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, whose boss is Winston Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion, Oh don't mention Winston to me." Proud Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon Representative Charles Albert Plumley of Vermont told the House of Representatives that he was "astounded" when he saw a picture in LIFE of Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photograph of King George VI at his elbow. It was "grossly indiscreet," said Mr. Plumley; thereupon read from Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, which says: ". . . No person holding any office of profit or trust . . . shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign state."
When Miami Beach's swank, expensive Nautilus Hotel refused to bar photographers and newsmen who wanted to interview him, Vacationist John L Lewis checked out in a huff.
Visiting Atlanta to attend a Southern Labor Conference, Baptist Lay Preacher William Green, president of A. F. of L., preached in Druid Hills Baptist Church on "righteousness, which after all is religion."
Because Yale's strenuous Dr. William Lyon Phelps was one hour and fifteen minutes late for a talk on "The Art of Living" before the Tenafly (N. J.) Women's Club, he got his fee, $200, plus a polite rebuke, by mail. His apology, a $250 check, received and rejected by the club, was last week in the hands of the Tenafly school board to buy books for the library of the school where the lecture was held.
Mary Cohan, estranged daughter of Actor George M. Cohan, whose elopement with George Ronkin, accordion player at the Manhattan nightclub where she sings, was foiled by Pennsylvania's three-day marriage law (TIME, March 11), tried again and was married at Doylestown, Pa. Said she: "I'm sending my father a-telegram. I wouldn't try to phone him. A wire's much better." On the 50th anniversary of its first production, Cavalleria Rusticana was produced at the Royal Opera House in Rome. Its composer, Pietro Mascagni, aged 76, not only heard it but wielded the baton while seated.
Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Tex. defined economics: "Whether you eat or not, and that is all."
"Because of widespread criticism of [her] part in the American Youth Congress and because no other President's wife has been so much the topic of conversation," Dr. George Gallup took a poll on the popularity of Eleanor Roosevelt. The President's Gallup rating: 64%. Hers: 68%.
Dorothy Knight, in process of divorcing her husband, Manhattan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight (who last year stood on his head in the Metropolitan Opera House), dropped her suit, went with him on a second honeymoon to Hot Springs, Ark. Said she: "It was the long-distance calls that really got me, wore me down and out. I had to sleep with the telephone under the bed the whole time I was in Reno. The children couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep. The dogs couldn't sleep and the cat didn't know what to make of it." Said he: "It was all due to my Southern charm."
From Cophill House School near Oxford to the Admiralty in London went a note and a school rhyme from Master William Shakespeare Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, whose boss is Winston Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion, Oh don't mention Winston to me." Proud Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon.
Representative Charles Albert Plumley of Vermont told the House of Representatives that he was "astounded" when he saw a picture in LIFE of Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photo graph of King George VI at his elbow. It was "grossly indiscreet," said Mr. Plumley; thereupon read from Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, which says: ". . . No person holding any office of profit or trust . . . shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign state."
When Miami Beach's swank, expensive Nautilus Hotel refused to bar photographers and newsmen who wanted to interview him, Vacationist John L Lewis checked out in a huff.
Visiting Atlanta to attend a Southern Labor Conference, Baptist Lay Preacher William Green, president of A. F. of L., preached in Druid Hills Baptist Church on "righteousness, which after all is religion."
Because Yale's strenuous Dr. William Lyon Phelps was one hour and fifteen minutes late for a talk on "The Art of Living" before the Tenafly (N. J.) Wom en's Club, he got his fee, $200, plus a polite rebuke, by mail. His apology, a $250 check, received and rejected by the club, was last week in the hands of the Tenafly school board to buy books for the library of the school where the lecture was held.
Mary Cohan, estranged daughter of Actor George M. Cohan, whose elopement with George Ronkin, accordion player at the Manhattan nightclub where she sings, was foiled by Pennsylvania's three-day marriage law (TIME, March 11), tried again and was married at Doylestown, Pa. Said she: "I'm sending my father a-telegram. I wouldn't try to phone him. A wire's much better."
On the 50th anniversary of its first production, Cavalleria Rusticana was produced at the Royal Opera House in Rome. Its composer, Pietro Mascagni, aged 76, not only heard it but wielded the baton while seated.
Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Tex. defined economics: "Whether you eat or not, and that is all."
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