People: The Open Road

Louise Macy Hopkins, pretty wife of Harry L. Hopkins (“American women are pretty, but Russian women are really beautiful”), reporting in Paris her own impressions of Russia during her Moscow visit with Harry, called Joseph Stalin “a complete charmer as soon as you get to know him.”

Moss Hart, bearded like the part, returned from a Pacific tour in The Man Who Came to Dinner. The playwright swore he was now through with both beard and acting: “Whatever ham I had in me is out.”

Charles A. Lindbergh, abroad on a technical mission, made his sixth visit to Paris since the liberation, found it unlike the old days (1927). He reported: “I’ve been stopped on the street only once.”