People: He & She

In Oakland, Calif., wealthy Corporal Palmer T. Beaudette paid $1,300 to charter an airliner to take him back to camp on time, announced when he arrived in Seattle that he was engaged to cinemambitious blue-blood Cobina Wright Jr. Cobina and mother denied it. Said Beaudette: “I think I’ll just forget the whole thing.” .. Bryan Untiedt, schoolboy hero feted in 1931 for his rescue of 15 children from a blizzard-bound bus, married Marjorie Bowman, 22, of Denver. Untiedt, now 23, is a Denver carpenter. …Baron Franz von Werra, Nazi flyer who fled a Canadian prison camp for the U.S. and then skipped the U.S. for Germany, married one Irene Traut…..Of a lovelorn lawyer waiting her return to Brazil, Carmen Miranda told reporters: “He is a very patient man. . . . But Brazil is so far away and here in New York there are so many lawyers. And when you need a lawyer you need him right away.”

Good Willman Nelson Rockefeller went hunting in Alaska, declared that Latin American-U.S. relations were fine, added: “But the closer I get to Alaska the better I feel.”

Women & War

Glamor Tennist Alice Marble got a $1-a-year job with the Office of Civilian Defense to plump for national female fitness……Mum on her reasons, Lillian Gish abruptly checked out of the America First Committee….Birth Controler Margaret Sanger ascribed new difficulties of the birth-control movement in the U.S. to the existence of a totalitarian plot…..Elinor Glyn, who brought forth “It,” came away from an interview with Britain’s Minister of State declaring that what Beaverbrook had was “Vril.” She said it meant energy……In England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country, got a 20-mile ride with grandmotherly Queen Mary, the beauteous Duchess of Kent.

Worldly Goods

Eleanor Roosevelt gave up her small hideaway apartment in Greenwich Village, moved her stuff to the family mansion uptown to save rent and air the mansion occasionally…..Vichy announced that the $2,000,000 art collection confiscated from fugitive Maurice de Rothschild would be auctioned for the national relief fund. ….The widow of Auto Pioneer John F. Dodge ordered the $3,000,000, 110-room, untenanted Dodge castle in suburban Detroit torn down so that the land could be sold….Sculptor Heinz Warneke’s two 31-ton stone eagles, brief ornaments of Washington’s Social Security Building till popular taste revolted, were sold by the Government for $25. A local auto salesman who bought them figures the stone is worth $2,000.

Manager Bill McKechnie of the Cincinnati Reds bought a plane ticket from Chicago to Pittsburgh, jumped into a cab after he landed, ordered the driver to Forbes Field. The driver had never heard of it. McKechnie seethed but it was not the driver’s fault. McKechnie had hopped the wrong plane, was sitting in a cab in Detroit.

Spats & Slaps

Against Al Capone, his brother Ralph and 13 Capone henchmen of Prohibition days, the U.S. filed a $250,000 suit for unpaid taxes on nearly 20,000 barrels of illegal beer…For speeding in Arlington, Archduke Otto of Austria lost his right to drive in Massachusetts….Jack Benny’s “Rochester,” Eddie Anderson, went fishing, caught a fish, missed a personal appearance at a Manhattan theater, caught a $500 fine from his agents…..Quizzed in a British agent’s suit against her for $47,000 in fees, in court Annabella remembered nothing about anything financial but managed to recall a few radio appearances, “two for the cheese, one for the soap.”

Quid-chompin’ “Alfalfa Bill” Murray, 71, scraggly-mustached onetime Governor of Oklahoma, has written a book called The Finished Scholar, with a special chapter on etiquette. He explained: “If a few did not write and make the sacrifices . . . deny themselves for the future weal . . . society would wreck itself. . . .”

Hollywood

Hired by the cinema industry to represent it in the Senate investigation of alleged Hollywood warmongering was Attorney Wendell L Wlllkie….Strapping ex-Sailor Stirling Hayden, blond rising screen star (TIME, Feb. 17), turned up in Gloucester, Mass, with a pair of California automobile license plates, dumped them into the harbor, swore he was washed up with Hollywood….. Maureen O’Hara followed the suit of Brenda Marshall and William Holden, had her appendix taken out… Deanna Durbin got laryngitis…Ralph Bellamy and Pat O’Brien helped two lifeguards struggling with a riptide rescue a foundering swimmer…. Under serious consideration as a new comedy team: Greta Garbo and Mickey Rooney….Back from summer barnstorming, Luise Rainer emoted to Manhattan reporters: “I saw cows . . . and then I knew that all my life I had been longing to see cows with bells around their necks again.”