In Reno, waiting for her divorce decree, French Actress Swana Beaucaire went to a movie that changed her mind, wired Husband Clyde Pangborn, shy, soft-spoken round-the-world flier: "COME AND GET ME. I DON'T WANT A DIVORCE." He went.

Day after the death of Dr. Frederick Albert Cook last week (TIME, Aug. 12), brown-bearded, twinkling-eyed, publicity-wise Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins went to Detroit to raise $100,000. Object: an expedition to "prove" Explorer Cook's much-disputed claim that he discovered the North Pole.

To Washington flew daisy-eyed, dark-haired Cinemactress Luise Rainer, two-time winner of the Academy Award, to expedite the entry into the U. S. of her father, Heinrich Rainer, 65, Brussels merchant recently released from a Nazi concentration camp in Prague.

Denied access to Cinecomedian Charles Chaplin, who had returned his manuscript unopened, would-be Cinemauthor Noel Jones, 23, fell upon Chaplin's office switchboard, started taking it apart.

Ex-Showgirl Lois Andrew Jessel, 16, four-month wife of thrice-married Stagester George Jessel, 42, planned a family of five or six children: "We won't have our first for a year, not until we get to know each other really. We're in love, deeply in love, but we need to get acquainted."

On 40 of The Congressional Record's 108 pages was spread honey-sweet praise for retiring Democratic National Committee Chairman and Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley.

In Britain's Parliament, members wanted to know why England's best-loved, best-paid (in peacetime: a reported $750,000 a year) Actress Gracie Fields, was permitted to leave England with -L-8,000 and a fortune in jewels while ordinary people can take only -L-10. Said her defenders: the money was for medical purposes, the support of her parents in the U. S. "Everything I have," said Gracie, "is the Government's whenever they want it."

Members also wanted to know what Playwright Noel Coward was doing in the U. S. Said Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information Harold Nicolson: Coward was expected to call on President Roosevelt, "possesses contacts with certain sections of opinion which are very difficult to reach through ordinary sources." Said the London Daily Mirror's acid Cassandra: "Mister Coward, with his stilted mannerisms, his clipped accents and his vast experience of the useless froth of society, may be making contacts with the American equivalents . . . but as a representative for democracy he's like a plate of caviar in a carman's pull-up."

Picking up a .22-calibre rifle in a British munitions factory shooting gallery (30 yd.), George VI scored a bull's-eye on his first shot.

Prince Frederick of Prussia, 28, favorite grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and honored guest at many a recent London party, was interned in England.

To Essen, to the 70th birthday celebration of Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, went Adolf Hitler himself, to congratulate the head of Germany's greatest munitions plant, award him a golden badge of honor.

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