Salvos of artillery saluted her 50th birthday throughout the empire, but Britain's Queen Elizabeth saw in her second half-century quietly. At tea she sliced a small cake with pink and white icing, but no candles. In the evening a few close friends were invited to Sandringham to help the King toast her in champagne.

The Episcopal Diocese of Michigan received $1,000,000 from Mrs. Henry Ford (whose marriage was performed by an Episcopal clergyman) for the construction of a church next to the Ford family cemetery in Detroit.

After three separations and one divorce, Cinemusicomedienne Betty (Annie Get Your Gun) Hutton patched things up with Chicago Businessman Ted Briskin, explained that she had had enough of dating other fellows: "You've always got to be cheerful and gay and whooping it up. You've got to figure out what they want to talk about and what they're interested in and it makes you so tired that you're so glad to leave them and just go home and take off your girdle."

Vacationing on her mother's farm near Lowell, Ind., Mrs. Winthrop ("Bobo") Rockefeller, 1948's foremost Cinderella, got into plaid shirt & blue jeans, settled down to watch 23-month-old son "Winnie" investigate his new surroundings.

Writing in This Week, Michelle Farmer, 18, daughter of Silent Cinesiren Gloria Swanson (see CINEMA), explained that she had learned a lot about the opposite sex from her multimarried mama, but was up against some fierce competition: "I must admit that I had better luck with the older gentlemen who came to call on Mother than with the younger ones who came to pick me up. The younger men stood glued to the floor staring at Mother until it was time for us to go out."

An announcement by Oilman James Wymore of Salina, Kans. gave shock-resistant Hollywood a jolt: his daughter, Cinestarlet Patrice, 23, was going to marry her leading man Errol Flynn, 41, who has been saying for quite a while that he would marry Rumanian Princess Irene ("The Geek") Ghica, 20. Flynn, now in the midst of a court squabble over alimony payments to first wife Lili Damita, had a characteristically playful comment to make on Patrice, who is very nearsighted: "All I'll have to do is hide her glasses and she'll never be able to find me."

The Road Ahead

Tokyo Raider Jimmy Doolittle announced that he was ready to fight in Korea "if my services are required." Onetime West Point Halfback Glenn ("Mr. Outside") Davis, registering for the draft in Los Angeles, declared that he was "just like everybody else in this." General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson offered to take a top war production job in Washington if the Administration wanted him.

Rested and restored after her recent breakdown (TIME, July 3), Song & Dance Girl Judy Garland flicked her line into the lake at Sun Valley, Idaho, pulled in her first catch of the season: a 7 1/2-oz., 10-in. rainbow trout .

Hired by New York's WNEW to read poetry, play records and tell stories to the kiddies: Cinemenace Boris Karloff.

He moved to California, Pianist Artur Rubinstein informed Roving Reporter Jinx Falkenburg, because New York "was not for us. My family caught colds ... and once, at the Waldorf, when I practiced in my suite, a lady called up, furious, to say that I was disturbing her dog."

The Way Things Are

While playing a quiet game of canasta in his suite at Chicago's Ambassador East Hotel, much shot-after Los Angeles Mobster Mickey Cohen was rudely interrupted by a posse of detectives, who plunked him into the cooler for the night, next morning suggested that he "get out of here before your scar tissue is found on the streets."

Shortly after his phony peace plan was soundly trounced at Lake Success, Soviet U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik's black Cadillac crashed into a Buick on Long Island's Grand Central Parkway, came off minus a fender and plus a law suit.

To the proprietress of the Boise motor court who discovered and returned the $5,000 he left there, Idaho's Senator Glen Taylor, 1948 running mate of Henry Wallace now running for renomination as a reformed Democrat, forked over a reward of $3.

In Paris, Stanley Marcus, executive vice president of Dallas' posh Neiman-Marcus, predicted that next fall "busts will not be made much of. We've had far too much of busts these last three years."

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