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In Ottawa, in a hospital suite declared Dutch territory for the day, to Crown Princess Juliana had been born a 7 lb. 12 oz. daughter, her third. Day after birth the baby was placed on a lace-covered cushion, ceremoniously presented by her father to the registrar, who presently set down her name: Margriet Francisco—Margriet for “daisy.” On the cushion was affixed a daisy-shaped jewel sent from London by Grandmother Queen Wilhelmina. Doubtless fixed in the minds of secretly celebrating burghers in The Netherlands was the meaning of Francisca, which is “free.” High Places From a cozy game of bridge up stood Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, ex-U.S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, Bridgeplayer Ely Culbertson. Their conditions, reported later by Culbertson: Litvinoff, $32 richer; Culbertson, $8 richer; Davies, $2 richer; the Secretary of Commerce (whose best game is poker), somewhat poorer. To 50 British and American seamen the towering, gaunt Ambassador from Britain, Lord Halifax, played host at the embassy, rallied around a piano, hoisting a glass, with a good song ringing clear. King George, Queen Elizabeth, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, in a short holiday at Windsor Castle, found an out-of-season use for the Princesses’ private swimming pool (see cut). Papa pumped. Daisies Back to work after a four-day honeymoon went thrice-married Cinemactress Ginger Rogers; out to the newspapers went a promising picture: husband Marine Private John Calvin Briggs in uniform, the bride in a gathered guimpe, a snood, and a dewy dither. With a little gun that had “been in the family for years” ex-Cinemactress Madge Bellamy, 39, curly-haired, wide-eyed star of the silents (Ankles Preferred, Silk Legs, Summer Bachelors), fired three shots at 53-year-old Lumberman A. Stanwood Murphy as he emerged from San Francisco’s swank Pacific Union Club. Murphy high-tailed it for cover, untouched, and Madge gave up quietly. To police, who charged her with assault with a deadly weapon, she explained that she had wanted to scare him, that he had ditched her after his divorce and married somebody else. Released under $500 bail after promising to leave the lumberman alone, she recalled happily: “Boy, did he lose his dignity.” “The” Young Men The U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce installed in its own hall of fame as “The” Young Men of 1942: a Marine private, a utility executive, a football coach, an Army flyer, a bacteriologist, a food merchant, a WLB director, a plane maker, a war bond salesman, and a State Governor. The Chamber’s measuring stick: “conspicuous achievement.” Youngest is Lieut. Colonel Chesley Gordon Peterson, 22-year-old executive operations officer of the Army Air Corps’ Fourth Group in Britain. A tall, lean, hay-haired farm boy from Santaquin, Utah (pop. 1,115), he has been fighting in the air for nearly three years, has flown in battle across the Channel more than 100 times. Thrown out of the U.S. Air Corps when his age was discovered, he enlisted with the R.A.F. a year and four months before Pearl Harbor, left for England on his 20th birthday. He led the R.A.F.’s First Eagle Squadron for nearly a year, won the Distinguished Flying Cross, was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for gallantry at Dieppe, where he was shot down and rescued. The others: Dr. Herald Rea Cox, 34, U.S. Public Health Service bacteriologist stationed at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Mont. He found a new and safer method of making typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever vaccines—cultivating them inside half-incubated eggs. The typhus vaccine is being used by the U.S., Britain and Canada to immunize their armed forces. Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 35, new Governor of Georgia, youngest in the State’s history. He defeated Eugene Talmadge (TIME, Sept. 21). Paul Brown, 34, football coach at Ohio State (TIME, Nov. 2), which won nine out of ten games last year, to become the nation’s No. 1 team. Paul Clifford Smith, 34, editor-on-leave of the San Francisco Chronicle, ex-head of OWI’s press bureau. He held Navy rank as a lieutenant commander when he worked in Washington, last year resigned to join the Marines as a private. Robert Kenneth Burns, 33, WLB’s regional director for Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas and Iowa. Once a prize-winning magazine salesman and oratory champion, he joined WLB as a mediation chairman, was made regional director less than a year later. George J. Newman, 34, ex-test pilot, vice president of Consolidated Aircraft Corp., in charge of Consolidated’s vast plant at Fort Worth, whence B245 began issuing last April. Theodore Roosevelt Gamble, 33, supersalesman of war bonds. Operator of a chain of Oregon theaters (he managed five when he was 17), he ran the State’s war savings staff in 1941, last year was made an assistant to Henry Morgenthau Jr. to run the nation’s war bond staffs in the field. Henry John Heinz II, 34-year-old president of H. J. (“57 Varieties”) Heinz Co. Under him the company has gone into the production of plywood parts for warplanes. William M. Shepherd, 35, director of Arkansas Power & Light Co.’s rural development division, president of the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. 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