People: War and Defense

War & Defense

Staggered were U.S. Navy officers who brought the transport West Point into New York (see p. 19) to be boarded by Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, who in uniform turned out to look more like a lifelong salt than any lifelong salt.

≤≤Other new uniforms: Al Smith’s son Al Jr., and Australian Prime Minister Menzies’ son Kenneth. ≤≤Robert Montgomery flew to London to be U.S. naval attache, said he was “washed up” with Hollywood for the duration.

≤≤Cinemactress Anna Neagle headed home for London, agreed that “Hollywood has forgotten about the world.” ≤≤ For $1 a year Vincent Astor turned over to the Coast Guard his $2,500,000 yacht Nourmahal, made famous by many a Roosevelt fishing cruise. An earlier Nourmahal, sold by Astor in the mid-’20s, burned last March off Halifax, ≤≤ Bea Lillie gave a benefit performance in food-rationed England, was awarded 24 tomatoes, 14 eggs and six heads of lettuce—not thrown, but delivered, ≤≤ Private “Bummy” Davis, beaten to a pudding by Welterweight Champ Fritzie Zivic, went A.W.O.L. when he got out of Army hospital on Governors Island, wound up in the guardhouse. He will be returned to Camp Hulen, Tex. under armed guard.

≤≤ Vice-President Henry Wallace’s 23-year-old son, Robert will be inducted into the Army at Richmond, Va.