Heckled at the annual meeting about Republic Steel's labor policies, Chairman Tom Mercer Girdler retorted to a young woman stockholder: "Some of my best friends are in organized labor."

To autograph one copy of Gone With the Wind, Cinemactress Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara, had to sign her name 30 times. Reason: it was printed in Braille, filled 4,110 pages, 30 volumes.

Found caddying for a living on Miami Beach's municipal golf course was Cyril Walker, onetime U. S. Open champion, who in Detroit in 1924 beat Bobby Jones for the title. Forty-eight, reduced to 107 pounds by illness, he hasn't golfed for four years, thinks he would have trouble breaking 80.

Chilean-born (but Spanish by title) Marquis George de Piedrablanca de Guana de Cuevas, husband of Margaret Strong, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller Sr., applied for U. S. citizenship papers in Toms River, N. J. Told he would have to renounce his title, he snorted: "Mister is good enough for me." In Manhattan, reporters discovered Arne Quisling, brother of Major Vidkun Quisling, leader of Norway's Nazi party and Hitler puppet. Said Brother Arne, who has been 15 years in the U. S.: "For me, I like it here. . . ." In Manhattan, Trapeze Artist Atrtrys Iwanows (of the "Daring Iwanows"), whose job demands a quick eye and nice judgment of distance, was unable to perform in his troupe's act with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Reason: crossing a street, the daring young man walked into the side of a truck.

Cinemactress Lupe Velez, doing a vaudeville turn in Manhattan, wowed backstagers with an Adolf Hitler takeoff. "That Heetler ees my best take-off," she conceded modestly. "For a few friends I take off that Heetler, yes, but for the public, no! An artist has no business mixing up with politeecs."

After exhausting the delays of jurisprudence, chubby William ("Sweet Willie") Bioff, boss of A. F. of L. labor in Hollywood studios and a potent figure in the U. S. entertainment industry, surrendered to Chicago police to serve out his six-month jail sentence imposed 18 years ago for pandering.

One piece of unfinished business interrupted by the Nazi occupation of Denmark was Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow's long-awaited divorce from her Danish husband. Unless a decree making the divorce effective at once was already signed by King Christian, sealed and on a U. S.-bound liner before the Nazis put him under wraps, Danish Subject Barbara may have to stay married until February 1941, when her divorce automatically becomes final.

One Democratic vote in the Illinois Presidential preference primary was cast for Actress Lillian Gish. Said Chicago Taxi Driver Herman Marks, who wrote in her name: "I did it because she makes everybody happy."

Returned from his longtime job of spreading the Gospel among African Negroes, Missionary Ernest H. Moser told a women's missionary society in Pasadena that not long ago in mid-Africa a native came up and asked: "You're American--what do you think about Roosevelt?"

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