Sights & Sounds

Winston Churchill's waggery followed Clement Attlee to Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Churchill crack: "Attlee is a sheep in sheep's clothing."

Harry S. Truman was assured a decent exposure at Mme. Tussaud's Waxworks in London: Presidential Aide Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan presented Clement Attlee's secretary with an old Truman grey plaid, which the secretary promised to deliverz with a suitable shirt and tie.

Hirohito, keeping abreast of the times, packed his Army and Navy uniforms in mothballs, stored his samurai sword.

Miss America (The Bronx's Bess Meyerson, 21) got a gallery-eye view-of the U.S. Senate, which also got a look at her and applauded her bond-selling achievements'. Tennessee's sulphurous old Senator Kenneth McKellar, 76, got something extra before she left: a patriotic buss.

Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir A^hur William Tedder and Lady Tedder, sightseeing in Manhattan, in a single day encountered such varied American novelties as Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, hot dogs, and a college football game (Army 48, Notre Dame o).

Singles & Doubles

Joan Bennett decided that the time had come to change ly-year-old Daughter Diana's last name again. It was'Fox when Cinemactress Bennett was Mrs. John Fox, then Markey when she was Mrs. Gene Markey; now that she is Mrs. Walter Wanger, she wants a Los Angeles court to make Diana a Wanger.

The Duke & Duchess of Windsor finally came full circle, returned to the Cap d'Antibes villa they had played in before the war.

Simone Simon, caught in the Manhattan housing squeeze, fought eviction from her $240-a-month sublet apartment. Her landlord, caught in the same squeeze, wanted to get back in fast, before his wife bore the baby she expected soon. "I would be happy to leave if I could find somewhere to go," cried the baby-faced cinemactress (All That Money Can Buy-). The OP A gave itself a week to decide.

Plots & Plugs

Gene Tunney, Connecticut jack-of-many-enterprises (next: housebuilding), longtime campaigner for Democratic candidates, let it be known that he was tired of "the fringes of politics" and that "if offered the nomination" for Senator in 1946, he would accept.

Bill Mauldin, ex-G.I. cartoonist who once tangled with General George S. Patton Jr. over brass-hat censorship (TIME, March 26), was the man 29 G.I.s in Italy wanted in Congress. In a letter to Stars & Stripes they nominated him as "the only person capable of opposing" General Patton, who they heard might run.-

Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Massachusetts' Indian-nosed Harvardman (where he was a member of Hasty Pudding and Porcellian), took a forthright stand for Indian pudding as the nation's prize dish--"sweet . . . nourishing . . . sends you away . . . with a satisfied feeling." Breaking home-grown-dish precedent, he declared candidly that his favorite recipe was not handed down in his family for generations. Said he: "We just found it in a cookbook."f

Billy Rose, "mighty midget" among Broadway producers, decided to set up a London version of his Diamond Horseshoe nightclub, announced soothingly in

London: "Except for a few American entertainers, all will be British." Next: Paris, Moscow.

Woodrow Wilson was finally accepted as a great man by his old university, not one of whose many empty niches held a memorial to Princeton's most famed alumnus and president. President Harold W. Dodds, accepting a Jo Davidson bust, paid a long-delayed tribute which it is now safe to pay, even in Princeton: "Woodrow Wilson's contribution to Princeton," he said, "has been surpassed by no one in the 200 years of her history."

*Last month Patton denied any political am bitions.

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