Heavies

On the auction block in Manhattan went the apartment furnishings of ex-Manhattanite Orson Welles. Among the wonder boy's things: sofas twelve feet long; a bed shaped like a sleigh, backed by a vast mirror; a large plaster panther; a set of iron hitching posts in the shape of sea horses; chairs four feet wide; a coffee table five feet long; a cannibal boiling pot. The new tenants are painting over the nude murals.

Beaver Christopher Morley finally explained why he had raised a beard. The late Sea-Writer Felix Reisenberg had had a beard, said Morley, and: "Felix grew his beard as a memorial to Herman Melville and I felt when Felix died that some memorial was due to him. . . ."

The Archbishop of Canterbury explained why he had given up golf: "I began to wonder why I should care whether the ball went into the hole or not. It generally didn't."

Politicos

Headed for another scrap pile were the steel and brass fittings of Kentucky Senator Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler's embarrassing backyard swimming pool--the pool the Senate investigated when it learned Chandler got it as a gift from a Louisville war contractor. (WPB suspended the gift-minded contractor from new war contracts for 90 days--but not until the election was safely over.) Chandler offered the metal (more than 8,000 Ib.) to "WPB or anybody else who needs it for the war." WPB accepted almost instantaneously.

Vainly house-hunting in Michigan's industrial Lansing was Governor-Elect Harry F. Kelly. The State has no executive mansion for its governors. Kelly, who has a wife and six children to house, put in a day's work looking for a place, began to consider commuting from Detroit, 85 miles distant.

At a publishers' banquet in Manhattan's giant Hotel Waldorf-Astoria the anonymous person who made the seating arrangements put ex-President Herbert Hoover and his 1928 opponent, Al Smith, side by side. They got along all right--possibly because neither was sure now who had been the real loser.

Made chief of Fascist state spectacles: Tenor Beniamino Gigli, once of the Metropolitan Opera. He left for home just before the war, was soon pointing out to his former colleagues the decadence of the U.S.

Trial & Trouble

Arrested: Stella Walsh, Olympic track sensation in 1932 (she ran the 100-meter); in Logansport, Ind. She was charged with grand larceny for allegedly having shoplifted $275 worth of coats from a local store.

Facing trial: Cinemactor William ("Bud") Abbott, straight man of the Abbott & Costello comedy team; in Los Angeles. Charged with drunkenness, he protested: "I was cold sober when I went to the police station. ... I was arrested because I protested against [a friend's] arrest. . . ."

Fined: Cinemactress Frances Farmer: $250; for drunken driving; in Santa Monica. She was put on probation for two years, forbidden to touch a drop therein.

Dismissed: Lieut. Commander Maurice N. Aroff; from the Navy. He was tried by a court-martial last July on charges which included accepting a $950 automobile from Singer Tony Martin for helping him get a petty officer's rating in the Navy as a "chief specialist." The court-martial did not disclose its recommendation.

Raw Fish & Sun Tan

She had known it all along said Mrs. Eddie Rickenbacker. Perfectly composed, smiling, she told Manhattan reporters her big worries had been: 1 his indigestion, 2) that he might get sunburned. "He was in pretty good health when he left here," Mrs. Rickenbacker pointed out, "and I felt he'd stand it all right." She added: "He takes things pretty coolly."

Novices

New private at South Carolina's Fort Jackson: Woo Eng Bunker, grandson of Eng, one of Phineas T. Barnum's original Siamese twins (Eng & Chang).

Accepted for the privilege of practicing law before the U.S. Supreme Court: Poet-Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish (LL.B., Harvard, 1919).

New U.S. citizen: Mexican-born Actress Maria Margarita Guadalupe Bolada Castillo ("Margo").

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