The Mixture as Before

Resting in Madrid, Barbara Mutton, disillusioned with her fourth husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, announced a change of heart about Europe, too: "There are still some fine people here, but I've learned that Americans have the real, decent, good qualities which count in life. You can have all the glittering front that is left in Europe today. I've had enough of it."

Pennsylvania's budget-conscious Congressman Robert Fleming ("Where's the money coming from?") Rich announced that when he retires from Congress next term at 67, his federal pension will go to "character-building" charities.

Winston Churchill took a flying trip to the Newmarket races, watched his four-year-old Colonist II carry the Churchill pink-and-chocolate silks past the post for his eighth win this year and total purses of -L-7,202.

Registered with the Jockey Club, in time for this week's Petworth handicap hurdles where her five-year-old Manicou is scheduled to run: Queen Elizabeth's racing colors, blue and buff with black cap and gold tassel. She was the first English queen to register since Queen Anne founded Royal Ascot in 1711.

In Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, after a near-fatal bout with a heart attack, H. L. Mencken was off the critical list and on the mend again, upsetting his doctors' predictions and confusing the nurses with orders for solid food and attention. His first demand: an egg.

Margaret Sanger, 67, pioneer champion of birth control, winner of a $1,000 Lasker award for planned parenthood, suggested a Government program to sterilize "the feeble-minded and victims of transmissible, congenital diseases." Then she announced that she would turn over her award money to help "women, especially the women of Japan, to control and guide their own biological destiny."

The Little Things That Count

The published photographs of Secretary of State Dean Acheson were giving his wife, visiting in Milwaukee, something to worry about: "When photographers come along they often find him just finishing a joke, even when he's with Vishinsky. I made the suggestion that perhaps he shouldn't be photographed laughing so much. So you can blame me if he looks too dignified and formal."

For televising without permission a 36year-old film, Whirl of Life, starring Irene and Vernon Castle, CBS, Ed Sullivan and the Ford Motor Co. were sued for $250,000 in damages by Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin Enzinger, who felt that the film was not fair to her late dancer husband. Said she: "Mr. Castle's clothes look oldfashioned, his hat is strange-looking, his coat is too short. He wears a putty nose in parts of it. I didn't want the Castles to be seen in a ridiculous light, to be laughed at by people today who never saw us dance."

For a publicity stunt, Florida's Governor Fuller Warren carefully wrapped a native product, worth $35 in fancy Manhattan restaurants, and sent it off to New Hampshire's Governor Sherman Adams. The gift: an ostrich egg.

Was it true, asked a New York Times reporter, that General Mark Clark was an opera lover? Only in line of duty, said the general: "In Italy, as we'd capture one town after another it seemed that the first thing the people wanted was to revive their opera, and I was always stuck with the premiere. I'd show up. But after the lights went down I'd have a tall fellow sit in my place."

The Heart of the Matter

After watching her first American football game, British Cinemactress Jean Simmons concluded that she disliked cheer leaders: "I don't like those people waving their arms to get people to yell. Goodness knows we scream our guts out at soccer matches, but not at somebody else's direction."

To Columnists Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz confessed: "I always get seasick, but I will not take any of those preventatives ... I think a general cleaning out every once in a while is a good thing for the system."

Hollywood's Joan Crawford, foster mother of four children, thought something should be done to revise California's adoption rules: "Under the California law I couldn't adopt a child, because single persons* are not allowed to. I think that is wrong. There are a lot of single men and women who would like to have children and could give them good homes."

The late Russian-born Asa Yoelson, son of a Jewish cantor, who mammy-sang his way to fame & fortune as Al Jolson, left more than $4,000,000, most of which would be divided among Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and nonsectarian charities, plus funds for needy students at the College of the City of New York, Columbia and New York Universities.

* Cinemactress Crawford divorced third husband Phillip Terry in 1946.

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