Uniformity

Burly, redheaded Dr. Francis Parkman, 44, resigned as headmaster of Massachusetts' famed St. Mark's School to join the Army Air Corps. He was a Second Lieutenant of Marines in World War I, is the father of five children. A major in the Reserve Corps and anxious for active duty, New Jersey's ex-Governor Harold G. Hoffman took his second physical examination, awaited the verdict.

Pronounced overweight at the first examination, he shed 36 lb. in a month, got down to 200. Newly-commissioned Major Alvin York began thinking of running for Congress. Lew Ayres, reclassified to 1-A-O (noncombatant work), left the conscientious objectors' camp at Wyeth, Ore., to report for duty with an Army Medical Corps unit. This work, said he, was "just what I've always wanted to do." He emphasized that his c.o. ideas remained unchanged.

Passage to India

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, leafing through a muscle-building magazine, set eyes on an article by Charles Atlas in which the Muscle Mahatma expressed pity for "the poor little chap" Gandhi and offered to build him up, for nothing. Exclaimed Gandhi: "I have met some inventive Americans, but Atlas takes the first prize.

Mind you, I would be delighted to have him work on me--if I could find someone to pay his passage to India."

Image

To the collection of doodads on the desk of Doodaddict Franklin D. Roosevelt was added a thingamajig that would have gladdened the heart of any patriotic hex. It was a figure of Adolf Hitler, leaning over like a fraternity pledge awaiting a paddle. On its rump, a pincushion.

Nest

Remodeled, redecorated, and furnished in part with Metropolitan Museum pieces of Early American vintage, Manhattan's 143-year-old Gracie Mansion was finally ready for occupancy as the City's home for its Mayor. Museum Director Francis Taylor dryly broke the news that Mayor LaGuardia had not set foot in the mansion since Park Commissioner Robert Moses had made the first move to remodel it last February. Said Taylor: "Commissioner Moses is trying to make an early American out of LaGuardia. The Mayor isn't too enthusiastic." The wallpaper in the Mayor's bedroom-to-be: flowery pink and white.

Superrepresentative

For the first time the U.S. had in one person four ambassadors and three ministers. The seven are Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., already minister to the exiled Governments of Greece, Czecho-Slovakia and Yugoslavia, Ambassador to the exiled Governments of The Netherlands, Poland and Belgium. Last week he was named Ambassador to the exiled Government of Norway. Object: a tribute to that country's "unrelenting resistance" to the Nazis.

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