People: People, Oct. 16, 1944

Down & Out

Ida Lupino, sharp-faced cinema minx, fell victim to a popular domestic hazard when she slipped in her bathtub, was kept to her home with a sprained neck.

Drew Pearson, who has long hobnobbed with top-drawer Washington society, was unceremoniously dropped from the just-issued 1945 edition of the swank Washington Social List. The explanation: sharp-sniping, chitchatting Columnist Pearson "gets into too many controversies and has trodden on too many toes."

Pablo Picasso announced that he had joined the French Communist Party, two days later learned that 15 of his sensationally experimental...

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