Top Ten

The Duchess of Windsor hit top place in 1941-8 list of the ten-best-dressed women in the world. Fifty style authorities moved her into the spot held for five years by Mrs. Harrison Williams, who dropped to fourth. Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr., daughter of the late, great Dr. Harvey Cushing, tied with the late Motor Magnate Walter Chrysler's daughter, Mrs. Byron Foy, for second place. The rest of the ten, in order: Brazil's Senhora Rodman Arturo de Heeren, Mrs. Thomas Shevlin, Senora Felipe A. Espil (wife of the Argentine Ambassador to the U.S.), Mrs. Robert W. Miller of San Francisco, Mrs. Robert Emmet Sherwood, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell. Among the runners-up for places on the list were: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (3 votes), Gertrude Lawrence (6), Lily Pons (2).

Expense Account

Sally Rand rode piggyback into Los Angeles' marriage license bureau aboard groom-to-be Thurkel Greenough, rodeo-boy. Both were promptly served with summonses in the ex-Mrs. Greenough's suit for $100-a-month maintenance.

Mrs. Pasquale di Cicco got the monthly allowance from her $4,000,000 estate upped $450--to $31,150 a year, so that she could "meet added expenses and responsibilities."

Oswald Jacoby's wife, Tennist Mary Zita McHale, got a job as a factory hand (hydraulic sub-assembly work) in the Dallas plant of North American Aviation. Onetime holder of national tennis championships in municipal contests, bridge tournament partner of her famed husband (now with OPM in Washington), she said she was having the time of her life as a factory hand, was spending all her wages on defense bonds.

Adjustments

Mrs. Otto H. Kahn winged for home from Cairo after two and a half years abroad. The onetime mistress of two fabulous mansions planned to settle in a Manhattan apartment.

George Herman ("Babe") Ruth was whisked to a Manhattan hospital suffering from an "upset nervous condition." Blamed: a recent auto accident; dieting away 47 Ib. for a cinemappearance.

Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michi gan advocated a Spartan wartime diet for Congress: "cornmeal mush and a baked potato without butter or even milk gravy." He hoped aloud that Congressmen would be "first to lose their tubes, their tires, their automobiles, their cocktails and their dinners at the swank hotels. ..."

Eugene Talmadge, flogging-apologist Governor of Georgia, threw himself into a conga on a slick dance floor, broke two ribs, returned to duty taped stiff as a mummy.

President Getulio Dornelles Vargas, of Brazil awaited delivery of a new office for himself and staff: a transport plane, complete with desk, swivel chair and davenport.

George Bernard Shaw, Herbert George Wells, Thomas Stearns Eliot Walter De La Mare, 14 other men & women of letters pleaded with the British Government to let the publishers have more paper, on the ground that otherwise "the condition of letters in this country will be quickly past prayer."

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