On the day that Canada's second war loan ($300,000,000) was launched, the name of the Dionne Quintuplets appeared on the subscription books for $20,000.

In Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria the National Committee for Music Appreciation made two simultaneous awards: to Songwriter Irving Berlin for the outstanding composition of the year, God Bless America (originally written in 1917); to Industrialist George A. Sloan, chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Association's executive committee, for distinguished cultural service to the community.

Day after he announced his "final" walkout on Wife Elaine Barrie, John Barrymore pulled himself together, joined newshawks and gawkers in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Occasion: publicity gag for his forthcoming self-burlesque. The Great Profile. For years big-time filmfolk have documented Grauman's forecourt with their hand and footprints. It remained for Barrymore to lend his famous profile to the wet concrete (by way of plaster cast), oblige pressmen by pretending to put his face in it. Heckled by unsatisfied photographers, he dipped his classic nose, a timid cheek, more of the profile when Sid Grauman, still unsatisfied, sneaked up from behind and bore down (see cut). Bedaubed & bewildered, Barrymore cursed, was still digging concrete from his ear when he left.

University of Pennsylvania Alumnus William Guggenheim, copper tycoon, chronic writer-to-the-papers, 71 -year-old songwriter (You're a Glamour Girl, Crumbs of Love), caught wind of a U. of P. plan to award Franklin Roosevelt an honorary degree. To President Thomas Sovereign Gates, onetime Morgan partner, he sent an indignant wire, declaring that he believed the "vast majority of our 40,000 or more alumni, who are Willkie-for-President men," would be as shocked as he, hoping President Gates would "rectify what must be an unintentional mistake."

In Los Angeles, Five-&-Ten Heiress Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, who, as the wife of a Danish nobleman, renounced her U. S. citizenship, possibly to escape $21,000,000 in inheritance taxes, submitted to registration and fingerprinting as an alien.

To auction off a prizewinning black Angus steer, Michigan's State Fair counted on doddery, dirt-farming Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson. At the last moment superstitious Governor Dickinson, who is up for election this fall, begged off. Reason : the last four Governors to auction off prizewinners were subsequently defeated.

When Driver Arthur James overturned on a Wisconsin highway, next car to happen along was that of an urbane, immaculately dressed man who helped right the overturned car, extricate Mrs. James. Then Dr. Glenn Frank, onetime president of the University of Wisconsin, longtime Republican bigwig, drove on to the town where he was to speak in his campaign for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator.

When meek, ascetic little Sir Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur died last month (TIME, Aug. 12) he left no son to succeed him as Maharaja of Mysore. Last week Mysore bedecked itself for a two-day religious ceremony, watched a procession of bejewelled elephants, a solid silver coach. Occasion: coronation of its new Maharaja, Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, son of Krishnaraja's late hard-drinking playboy brother, Kanthirava.

In London cautious police arrested 24-year-old John Patrick Curtin for ogling the comely Duchess of Kent. Whined Curtin: "I only wanted to see what a beautiful woman really looked like."

Toyohiko Kagawa, Japan's No. 1 Japanese Christian, has shown no itch to become a martyr by protesting his Govern ment's drive against Christianity in Japan (TIME, Sept. 9), but nonetheless news last week leaked from Japan: last month Japanese police pounced on Christian Kagawa, jailed him in the best Martin Niemoeller style.

Filed in New York Surrogate's Court was the will of slick little Max David Steuer, late famed millionaire criminal lawyer and Tammanyman. More like a chatty, affectionate family letter than a will, it named Wife Bertha P. Steuer chief beneficiary, bequeathed her $60,000 a year, gave equal parts of one-half the estate's remaining income to his three children. Excerpts: "My grandchildren--God bless them all--who have been such a joy to me, may deem it strange that no bequest is herein made to them. I have each one of them in mind, and love them with all my heart. I have heretofore created a trust for each of them after a life estate to one of their parents. They can rely on it that their 'lovey' [his widow] who is also my 'lovey' will never see them lack. . . . I am also mindful that I have made no direction as to charities. . . . I am aware of the charitable disposition of my wife and she can be trusted to do her share. . . . As to the disposition of my body: I have decided definitely that it is infinitely better for the common weal and particularly for the comfort of my nearest relatives that it should be cremated."

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