Pairs

Captain Don Gentile, ace fighter pilot (TIME, April 28), on furlough in his hometown, Piqua, Ohio, found the one: pretty Isabel Masdea. Said he: "She's the girl I love."

Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, about to address most of the 300-odd citizens of Brickerville, Pa., stopped short, peered into the crowd, shouted: "Henry, what are you doing here?" Beavered, 80-year-old Henry Bricker, who had come from Bradford, Ohio for the occasion, joined his second cousin on the platform.

Rudolf Hess, Hitler's beetle-browed onetime private secretary and Nazi No. 3, the United Kingdom's No. 1 war prisoner since his A.W.O.L. flight from Germany in 1941, was reported by London's gossipy Reynolds News as sued for divorce by equally beetle-browed Frau Ilse Hess. Charges: "desertion and insanity."

Gene Tierney, sultry cinemactress (Shanghai Gesture) whose 7-month-old, prematurely born daughter, Daria, is doing well, was publicity-agented as doing well herself: motherhood has added an inch and a half to her height.

Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, on a recent quick trip to Moscow, was wined & dined by correspondents, who treated him to a $50-a-person supper of zakuska and borsch (hors d'oeuvres and vegetable soup), scalloped veal, etc. When a Red Army captain was invited over from another table, Colonel Roosevelt insisted, after a due amount of casual conversation, that the captain be told, off the record, the colonel's identity. The captain was at first incredulous, then convinced and delighted. Toasts to President Roosevelt, Stalin, the Second Front were exchanged; finally the beaming Russian whispered to his friend: "You know, I never thought a President's son could be so democratic."

Mary Pickford and her Navy lieutenant husband, Buddy Rogers, adopted a second child, two-year-old Roxanne. Said mother Mary: "We plan to have at least two more and maybe four when we get out of the Navy."

Ideas

General Erwin Rommel's honor was vindicated when a German woman got three months in Aachen concentration camp for remarking: "I had to run faster than Rommel did in Africa."

Beardsley ("Pay-as-you-go") Ruml, visiting his doctor-father in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had a pleasant thought (for a local reporter): the American postwar standard of living can be 50% higher than anything the U.S. has ever known--if the right conditions prevail. The "right conditions": a national income of $140 billions, based upon 55 million people working 40-hour weeks.

Major Vasily Golubev, first-class Russian fighter-ace (39 Nazis), was awarded the Order of the British Empire, Class IV.

Albert Einstein, gentle genius, staunch individualist, proposed to a Manhattan meeting of intellectuals a worldwide union of brainworkers. Objectives: 1) economic security;* 2) political power. Objected Fordham's president, the Rev. Robert Ignatius Gannon, S.J.: "Dr. Einstein is a symbol of the mental confusion he is trying to remedy."

Major Clark Gable, 43, in the Army Air Forces since August 1942, having completed his special photographic mission, was slated for inactive duty, civilianship.

Visitors

Herbert Lehman, although still on crutches with a fractured kneecap he got in Africa last March, was getting about, visited the White House to discuss UNRRA with the President.

Alice-Leone Moats, far-flung foreign correspondent whose daring exploits, by her own word, keep her almost constantly in hot water, was really boiling. Last month "Moatsie" cabled a story of three fabulous weeks of incognito hobnobbery with French and German officials inside France, suddenly found herself in Lisbon plus a Paris spring hat but minus a passport. The State Department's unsympathetic attitude: that anyone entering enemy-held territory and conversing with the enemy was liable to lose passport facilities. Last week passportless Moatsie said she was Clippering home.

Robert Service, poet of the gold-rush days when Lady Lou shot Dangerous Dan McGrew, now settled in Hollywood, took time off from his memoir writing to visit title-roling Gypsy Rose Lee on the Belle of the Yukon set.

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