The Solid Flesh

Curvy Rita Hayworth, relaxing on the French Riviera after transfusions in Paris (TIME, July 5), looked at the bright side of her ordeal: "I already have Spanish blood (from Father) and Irish blood (from Mother), but I am proud that now there also flows the blood of a Paris fireman in my veins."

In London, Princess Margaret was confined to the palace with "an attack of acute fibrositis"--a crick in the neck.

Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane, lightweight champion from 1908 to 1910, conqueror of Young Corbett and Joe Gans in boxing's palmy days, shuffled out of Cook County Hospital, Chicago, after a five-day bout with pneumonia, back to his job as a mail clerk.

Joe Tinker, sputtery holler guy of baseball's immortal Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance, confined to a wheel chair since his left leg was amputated 18 months ago, entered an Orlando, Fla. nursing home for "closer supervision of his diet."

Jane Cowl, fluttery, hankie-flapping veteran of 37 stage years, who had had some trouble with a backing taxi in Manhattan last winter (broken leg), had more of the same with a station wagon in La Jolla, Calif.; as it rounded a curve she fell out the door, suffered a banged head, cut arm, skinned knee. Two days later she was back at rehearsal for a straw-hat performance of The First Mrs. Fraser.

Movers & Shakers

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, briefly interrupting his tour of war-riven Kashmir, treated himself to a game of badminton doubles, paired with Defense Minister Sardar Baldev Singh, treated the world to a pleasant scene of dignified concentration and earnest endeavor (see cut).

Pundit Henry Wallace, briefly interrupting his Third Party crusade for a picnic in Asbury Park, N.J., paired off with Congressional Candidate Sidney Stolberg in a game of old-fashioned Indian wrestling (see cut), won four straight falls.

Russia's Andrei Gromyko, Soviet U.N. spokesman for more than two years, waved goodbye to Manhattan, sailed for home. To the press he was as laconic as ever. Was he happy to be going home? "Yes, I am glad . . ." Did he expect to come back? "I hope not." What about the U.N.? "It absolutely must succeed."

In London on his aerial travels, Colonel Robert R. McCormick did some backtracking: "The feeling built up against me is due to your English newspapers, which print more propaganda than news ... I don't hate the British. Why should I?"

Albert Einstein, delighted with Psychoanalyst Theodor Reik's book, Listening with the Third Ear, sat down and wrote the author a little mash note: "I have read your book with sincere admiration . . . I am of course merely a layman, but I have a natural scientific interest." Winston Churchill had also found a new enthusiasm. "Lately," he confided, "I have taken to farming in a modest way ... I think that if I had heard about it when I was young I probably should never have gone into politics."

Family Affairs

Emperor Hirohito was having trouble making ends meet. On an allowance of 8,000,000 yen for the fiscal year 1947-48, he had managed to spend more than 10,000,000. Like other heads of family the world over, he had to dip into capital to make up the difference.

Beulah Louise Overell, now 19, acquitted of the bludgeon-&-blast death of her parents last October, was doing all right financially. The Overell estate, as valued in probate court: $309,977.

Carole Landis' estate was estimated at $20,000.

Literary Trapezeman William Saroyan, high-flying apostle of man's humanity to man, was on the upswing again: after thinking it over for three days, his wife had decided to tack a Saroyan ending on to the whole episode, dropped her divorce suit.

John Barrymore Jr., 16, continued on his way to Los Angeles after a slight delay at La Guardia Airport. Stepfather Dr. John Vruwink, in the dark himself, had asked police to find out whither John was bound. Police picked him out by the profile.

Major General Vasily Stalin, 28, a backward son when a schoolboy, demonstrated last week that he has learned to recite perfectly: "Every participant in the coming aviation parade [which was later rained out and postponed a week] will demonstrate his love and gratitude to the creator and organizer of all victories and successes of the Soviet people, the best friend of Soviet aviators, the wise, brilliant commander and generalissimo of the Soviet Union, Joseph V. Stalin."

Mrs. Casey Jones, relict of the famed engineer, sharp-eyed and spry at "over 80," rode up from Jackson, Tenn. to Chicago for a railroad fair, reminisced about Casey: "Laughing brown eyes that had the imp in them . . . took care of his engine like some people pamper a dog." On the fair: "Some doin's. Only wish Casey could be here. But I don't know what he'd think of these new diesels and the 'astra domes' and stuff."

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