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...

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