War Effort

Fragile, green-eyed Cinemactress Greer Garson overdid patriotism on a high-pressure war-bond sales tour of 20-odd mining towns in ten days. She sold $10 million in war bonds but wound up exhausted in a Washington hospital. Earl Haig, 24, son of the British World War I commander, turned up as a prisoner of war in Italy. Feather-haired, candy-faced Hinda Wassau, veteran stripteuse, swore she was going to join the WAACs. "I don't want to hold any office," she said. "I just want to start fresh from scratch." Cinedirector Cecil B. DeMille, veteran showman, turned up at work on a motorcycle, with his chauffeur in the sidecar.

At a Middle-East airdrome an honor guard of U.S. flyers turned out to greet Hoosier Wendell Willkie, who shook hands with them all, asked each one where he was from, found none from Indiana. Exasperated, he turned to Major General Lewis H. Brereton, who explained: "Sorry, Mr. Willkie--all the Indiana boys are in the guardhouse."

Out

Bald, squat, harried ex-Cinemagnate Joseph M. Schenck, having served a third of his year-and-a-day term for perjury, walked free on parole. Originally sentenced to three years for income-tax evasion (to the tune of $412,000), he won a suspension of that sentence after testifying against union racketeers Willie Bioff and George E. Browne.

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