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Fresh from a visit to his pretty, Italian first wife Tosca, Enzo Fiermonte. occasional prizefighter, taxied up to a Naples Hotel, hastened in to calm his tearful wife, Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, widow of John Jacob Astor II, mother of John Jacob Astor III. Hotel-men, eavesdropping, heard sounds of a quarrel. After an hour, handsome, husky Fisticuffer Fiermonte, whose passport had been taken by the police, left to spend the night with his first wife's brother. Next morning he was off to Rome on the third lap of a wife-to-wife shuttling trip which began three weeks ago when he left the U. S. for a visit with Tosca, only to find that Mrs. Madeleine Fiermonte had tagged along. In Rome he visited Tosca. played with their young son. Meanwhile, police investigated Enzo's Reno divorce, illegal in Italy. At Naples Mrs. Madeleine Fiermonte had a cold, could see no one except a lawyer who advised her to quit Italy before she was arrested for bigamy. Said Enzo's aged mother: "My son really loves the American lady a great deal." Last week newshawks rumored that Enzo might be conscripted to fight Abyssinia. Said one official: "He is not considered desirable to represent Italy abroad."
* The Denver Zoo received from Major-General Butler last week a request for a young bald eagle which he could train to appear on lecture platforms with him. Zoo Director Clyde Hill, perplexed, inspected his eagles, replied that a bald eagle is virtually indistinguishable until, at the age of about two years, its head feathers turn white.
Also last week the House Committee on Un-American Activities purported to report that a two-month investigation had convinced it that General Butler's story of a Fascist march on Washington was alarmingly true.
* According to Columnist 0. 0. Mclntyre, a drunk once refused to believe that the person with whom he was scuffling was Fisticuffer McCoy. Knocked to the floor, he looked up, said, "It's the real McCoy." Hence, the phrase.
* Alarmed by the number of women who had fitted their vanity cases with revolvers, the French Government last fortnight prohibited the sale of firearms to private individuals.