In & Out
Ex-U.S. Judge Martin T. Manton, who peddled his decisions for $122,000, got five months knocked off his two-year sentence for good behavior, leaves Lewisburg penitentiary Oct. 13. ∙ ∙ Rumania's Ace Stunt Flyer Captain Alex Papana was arrested for working in a Pinehurst tearoom in violation of his visitor's visa. ∙∙ Andrew J. ("Bossy") Gillis, ex-"bad boy mayor" of Newburyport, Mass., will run for office from his cell, where he is now serving a term for libeling a judge.
New Hetty Green
A furor in Newport over the dilapidation of Mrs. James Jay Coogan's empty mansion on aristocratic Catherine Street turned the spotlight on one of the world's wealthiest recluses: for 25 years Mrs. Coogan, now well into her eighties, has seldom left her Manhattan hotel suite in the daytime, but each night at 9 o'clock she goes down in the freight elevator heavily veiled, drives to her cubbyhole office in a loft building, puts in five hours administering her real-estate fortune (which includes Coogan's Bluff, the Polo Grounds where the Giants play). She and her daughter, Jessie, do all the chores about their suite, which neither maid nor bellboy may enter. She never answers letters, for years has hardly glanced at a newspaper. But before her Tammany husband died in 1915 she spent eight years vainly trying to crash Newport society. The book found on her bedroom table in Newport was Burke's Peerage—for 1910.
Fortunes of War
Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, unscratched survivor of bombings, torpedoings, and shellfire, got his first wound. Friends gave him a goat as a mascot for his aircraft carrier Illustrious, now at Norfolk Navy Yard. The goat promptly bit him. ∙ ∙ J. P. Morgan's 40-year-old son and Morgan Stanley official, Henry Sturgis Morgan, was called to active service as a Naval Reserve lieutenant—in the procurement planning section, ∙ ∙ Naval Reserve Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was ordered to prepare for active duty. Leading rumor was he would be drafted by the State Department for a mission to Vichy. ∙ ∙ Seventy-four-year-old James W. Gerard, World War I Ambassador to Germany, asked the police of Teaneck, N.J. to let him use their pistol range for practice.
Forced down in a Kansas pasture, Governor Payne Harry Ratner and the pilot of his plane took to the road, tried thumbing rides with no success at all. One passing motorist learned their identity later, apologized to the Governor: "My wife thought you were a couple of magazine salesmen."
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