People, Dec. 2, 1940

Commissioned second lieutenant in the U. S. Army Nurse Corps, trig, 22-year-old Volunteer Rena Hayman, lately a registered nurse at the Quincy, Mass. City Hospital, headed for West Point and her first assignment. Officering, trilled she, is “wonderful.”

Down a deserted London street marched bluff old Air Marshal Hugh Montague, Viscount (“Boom”) Trenchard, onetime chief of Scotland Yard. As he reached the corner, a bobby saluted cordially, informed him he had just walked over a time bomb. “Why didn’t you stop me?” roared Lord Trenchard. “Oh, we recognized you, sir,” replied the policeman.

With Lois Wilson, oldtime screen star, appearing as witness on her behalf, old-time Screen Star May McAvoy, heroine of such silent film favorites of two decades ago as Sentimental Tommy, charged that Maurice G. Cleary, her theatrical agent husband, deserted her last year, forcing her to go on relief. Miss McAvoy got her divorce and a Los Angeles court order requiring Cleary to contribute $100 monthly to the support of their eight-year-old son.

From bomb-blasted London came first pictures of rich, resplendent Sir Ibrahim, 67-year-old, martially habilimented Sultan of Johore, and his new Rumanian wife, red-blonde Marcella Mendl, 25.

On the front page of Moscow’s Pravda appeared a photograph of two blandly smiling statesmen. The caption: “Comrade V. M. Molotov and Mr. A. Hitler in the new Reich Chancellery.”

Freckled, fabulously jeweled Sandra Rambeau, Springfield, Mo. chorus girl who danced at Monte Carlo for the Duke of Kent, Prince Vishnu of Nepal, many another royal admirer, was reported to have been quietly married in Paris to Adolf Hitler’s longtime military mentor and president of the Reich Colonial League, 72-year-old Lieut. General Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp, Reichstatthalter for Bavaria.

After arguing all evening against Novelist Thomas Mann’s and Educator Robert Maynard Hutchins’ view that Chicago was a city of crime, stocky, curly-headed Lloyd Downs Lewis, Chicago Daily News sports editor, drama critic, historian (Chicago—The History of Its Reputation), bade Host Hutchins goodnight, departed. In the street Editor Lewis & wife met three robbers, surrendered $8 cash, a mink coat, $4,350 worth of jewelry. Returning to the house, he announced ruefully: “I take back everything.”

At the Manhattan wedding of Catherine McDonnell and Raymond P. Sullivan Jr., Henry Ford (whose grandson married the bride’s sister last July) stopped to pass the time of day with another famous guest, Al Smith.