Retrenchment

Aware that any display of extravagance would be unseemly in these times, the Maharaja of Jodhpur announced that only a quarter of the amount originally earmarked would be spent on the approaching wedding of the heir apparent. The affair will cost scarcely $108,000.

Armed Forces

Quietly into the army as a private went Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas, loudly deplored as an OCD consultant by Congress last February. Into the air corps went Cinemactor Bruce Cabot.

Into the army went David Mdivani, ex-Georgian prince, ex-husband of Mae Murray, ex-brother-in-law of Barbara Hutton, ex-brother-in-law of Pola Negri.

Into Walter Reed Hospital, reportedly with heart trouble, went Multimillionaire Major Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. Out of the Philadelphia Naval Hospital after a bout with catarrhal fever came Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., recently back from Africa.

From Honolulu came a rare picture of habitually grave, businesslike CINCPAC Chester W. Nimitz with his hands full of unaccustomed duty at the official opening of a Navy recreation center.

Graduated from an Army Air Force's navigation class for cadets was Peter Chuh, whose uncle is Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek.

The Navy's Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, who vanished loudly on a secret mission three weeks ago, turned up in Rio de Janeiro for temporary duty in the Naval attache's office there.

"Anything I Can Do ..."

Neat, round, goateed, vaguely bomb-shaped Sir Thomas Beecham plummeted into Brooklyn, announced: "I am not prepared to transform your community overnight into a center of art and enlightenment. However, if there is anything I can do. . . ." But the British maestro whipped the year-old Brooklyn Symphony into a little demonstration of Mozart and Beethoven that stole the musical show from the neighboring New York Philharmonic under Artur Rodzinski. "I prefer the smaller orchestras," sniffed Sir Thomas, "because they're better behaved. I find they're not possessed of this overweening self-satisfaction."

Worldly Goods

Attached: The household furnishings left behind in Manhattan, Kans., by Private Pasquale di Cicco and his million-heiress wife, the ex-Gloria Vanderbilt. A grocer, an ex-chauffeur, two furniture-craters and a shoe merchant charged the di Ciccos left a mess of bills when they moved to New jersey last month. (They move to Texas next.) The grocer wants $62, the craters $113, the shoe merchant $10, and the ex-chauffeur $90. If a sheriff's sale is authorized, local natives will have a chance to pick up a bronze bust of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Vanderbilt family's elegant coat of arms.

Escaped: Two of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s steers; from the Rockefeller estate in Mount Pleasant, N.Y. The pair cleared a five-foot fence. Next day one was still at large in the countryside; the other was bulldogged after he darted into a ball game, tossed two would-be captors, and tried to gore an automobile.

Transmogrified: The birthplace in Elizabeth, NJ. of Admiral William Frederick Halsey, commander of the U.S. Naval force in the South Pacific. Its new identity: The Polly Tea Room.

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