Worldly Goods.

Edsel Ford, president of the company that has turned out some 30,000,000 cars, decided to turn in his coupe for a new sedan. He is now awaiting permission from his local rationing board.

Governor Herbert Lehman of New York gave up tennis for the duration, added his tennis shoes to the family's scrap-rubber contribution. Also surrendered: the gubernatorial mansion's front door mat, a tire, a length of hose, galoshes, Mrs. Lehman's rain cape.

After less than a year's ownership and rare visits to it, Torchsinger Gertrude Niesen's parents sold the fabulous marble villa in Newport that mother had said she was buying daughter for a birthday present. Famed as "the Tessie Oelrichs mansion," it cost some $2,500,000 to build in 1902. The Niesens bought it for $21,000, sold it for $33,000.

A picture from Fort Banning of what looked like a nail-spitting, weather-beaten machine gunner from way back turned out to be of Lieut. Colonel Frank Murphy, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who went on leave for military duty just a month ago.

New Careers

Cinemactor Victor ("The Beautiful Hunk") Mature enlisted in the Coast Guard in Los Angeles.

Nathalia Crane, famed child-poet of the late '20s, joined the faculty of Manhattan's Hunter College, as a lecturer on "rhythm, meter, rime, tone color, diction, imagery, emotion and imagination in poetry." Now 28, she declared: "It's the first time any poet has had a chance to divulge all the secrets of poetry in a classroom."

Trouble, Trouble

Fifty-seven-year-old Lionel Atwill, oldtime matinee idol, was indicted for perjury by a Los Angeles grand jury reopening a year-old investigation of allegedly gamy gambols at Atwill's home. He pleaded not guilty and faced trial Aug. 17.

Basis of the indictment was Atwill's denials that he had allowed such goings-on as wild revels by unclad guests on a tiger skin rug, showings of bawdy movies.

Veteran Broadway Producer Lee Schubert, an appellate court decided, has to keep up his $75-a-week payments to Mrs. Evelyn T. Lindley, an ex-showgirl who in 1926 charged that he was her child's father. He denied the charge at the time but agreed to make payments, and figures he has paid her $116,000 so far. She has been married for three years.

Skater Sonja Henie lost an appeal from a ruling that she has to pay a promoter $77,658.28 plus 20% of her future cinema earnings. The promoter said she had agreed to the percentage in 1936 if he brought her to the U.S. and got her into the movies.

Cleared: the Rev. Dr. Henry Darlington, rector of Manhattan's fashionable Church of the Heavenly Rest; of charges that he had exerted "undue influence" on 78-year-old Mrs. Anna H. Paton, who left him 30% of her $1,300,000 (which shrank to about $800,000). Her relatives, who had charged that the pastor had wooed the 230-lb. widow out of the money, said they would appeal.

Out-of-Towner

When 18-year-old King Peter of Yugoslavia arrived in Manhattan for a visit, a force of nearly 450 cops and detectives guarded him. He established himself in a 40th-floor suite of the Waldorf-Astoria Towers, held audiences, dined with the Governor, the Mayor, generals. Then, like almost every visitor, he went to the top of the Empire State Building and looked down; he took a little ride in the subway.

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