In Congress Representative Overton Brooks God-blessed America, told his colleagues: "When . . . we hear Kate Smith on the radio, every red-blooded American feels a deeper admiration and a greater love for the last republic in the entire world."

Bearded Montagu Collet Norman, 69, Governor of the Bank of England since 1920, began harvesting cabbages on what was formerly his smooth lawn in Kensington.

In Manhattan, the swank hairdressing salon of Antoine de Paris stood on end when a cable came from the Duchess of Windsor asking that Manhattan Hairdresser Wayne Forrest be sent at once to Nassau to do her hair for an important reception. To Nassau, where the Duchess and her Governor-Husband obligingly held hands for photographers, the hairdresser flew on 24 hours' notice, with a permanent wave dryer, packets of nail polish, rouge, powder, lipstick.

In a letter to the Portland Oregonian, 73-year-old H. G. Wells wrote: "America expects every Englishman to do his duty, and I don't think we shall disappoint you."

Langtry, Tex., named by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean after the late, famed British Actress Lily Langtry, cabled an invitation to the Jersey Lily's daughter (Lady Ian Malcolm) and granddaughter (Lady Mary Bartlett) in bombed London: "Langtry's 200 citizens would be godparents to you. . . . He [Bean] would have wanted us to offer refuge to the daughter of the actress he so admired."

At the unveiling of a Wright Brothers monument in Dayton, Ohio, keen-eyed, sparse-haired Orville Wright (who has not piloted a plane since 1914) was presented with Civil Aeronautics Authority's Honorary Pilot's License No. 1.

In London King George VI installed a new rowing machine at Buckingham Palace (to make up for the exercise he ordinarily gets at this time of the year shooting grouse), was undismayed at bombing raids that knocked John Milton's statue off its plinth at St. Giles.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. went to work for his father at the Democratic National Campaign Headquarters in Manhattan.

Major General Thomas Holcomb, U. S. Marine Corps commandant, issued an order promoting Private James Jolly Plum ("Duffy") Duff, bulldog mascot of the U. S. M. C., to the rank of corporal.

Safe in Portugal, after a report last month of his capture by the Nazis in Paris, was grim, Hitler-hating Otto Strasser, leader of the subterranean Black Front, who hope some day to erase the Nazi Fuehrer.

North Carolina's convivial, clownish Senator Robert Rice ("Our Bob") Reynolds, speaking against conscription, informed the Senate that "the squirrel hunters of North Carolina and Kentucky can keep Hitler or anyone else off until the Marines arrive and the situation is well in hand."

Back to Russia aboard a Soviet freighter bound for Vladivostok went "Big Joe," unpopular, 60-foot, stainless-steel statue of a worker that last year surmounted the Russian Pavilion at New York World's Fair.

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