Minister's Son

Captain Randolph Churchill, son of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, stopped in the U.S. on roundabout wartime route to England from Egypt. In a Manhattan hotel, his face bruised and his back in a brace because of recent injuries on the North African front, he told reporters: "The English have not been as clever as the enemy in this war. We have been enthusiastic amateurs as compared to professional military men. But we are learning fast and we are going to win."

Pen to Sword

After waging newspaper war on his Manhattan draft board, impugning its motives in classifying him as 1-A, big, shambling, 41-year-old Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, editor of Manhattan's New Deal tabloid PM, won the last round by volunteering for enlistment as a private.

Thirty-three-year-old Playwright William Saroyan got $60,000 from M.G.M. for his modestly titled Human Comedy, promptly distributed most of it among his innumerable Armenian relatives--whom he had claimed in his draft application as dependents. Result: his dependents ceased to be dependents, and Saroyan was reclassified by his San Francisco draft board as "potential 1-A." The playwright asked deferment in order to carry through with a serial production, beginning this month, of 20 Saroyan plays. Said he: "We have a terrific program outlined. If I were drafted or given a commission to do writing it couldn't be one bit as effective as the writing I am doing as a civilian. However, I'll insist on one thing, that I will not be required to write."

Volo Episcopari

Asked whether he would help inprove the caliber of Maryland State officeholders by consenting to run for office in the House of Delegates, Author H. L Mencken loftily replied: "The only office I would consider is that of bishop."

Responsibilities

In Hollywood, Paramount studios decided to do a picture titled Women of Aberdeen, glorifying the lives of dusty women workers at Maryland's explosive Army ordnance proving ground, chose for its star diminutive, peach-sundae-cheeked Cinemacutie Susan Hayward.

As Orson Welles prepared to return to Hollywood from Brazil (TIME, July 20) the following ad, signed by RKO's Brazilian manager, appeared in Rio de Janeiro papers: "RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., established in New York, U.S.A., hereby declares it will not assume responsibility for any acts committed by Orson Welles in Brazil."

Diana Barrymore, 21, Cinemactress daughter of the late John Barrymore, and Bramwell Fletcher, 34, British-born actor, applied for a marriage license.

In Manhattan Federal agents were busy investigating the finances of Cinemactor George Raft, trying to recover $236,603.60 allegedly due in back income taxes.

Anxious to serve in the U.S. armed forces, Russian-born Count Oleg Loiewski Cassini, 29, Hollywood studio designer and husband of Cinemactress Gene Tierney, became a U.S. citizen. Said Actress Tierney, when questioned as a witness: "I know him to be the finest type of manhood."

Man's World

"Women," exploded English Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham after finding three of them facing him from the ranks of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra "are like the vultures on the battlefield: they appear after everyone else is dead. I believe women should do their worst. They always have done their worst. They ought to go on doing worse than ever. The sooner they're allowed to run their course, the sooner the present era will blow up in ineptitude, inefficiency and incompetence. There will be five years of no music, and at the end people will say, 'Now we'll start over.' "

New Food

In Dearborn last week visiting his good friend Henry Ford, Alabama's famed Negro Scientist George Washington Carver inaugurated a new food laboratory, chatted about the possibility of Michigan-raised rubber, gladly munched (with Industrialist Ford) a sandwich made of weeds, which he had prepared.

Due Process

Clarence Decatur Howe, Canada's amiable, U.S.-educated Minister of Munitions and Supply, was arrested, fined $10 and costs in Hull, Quebec. The charge: lighting his pipe during a local blackout.

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