Inge to England
As often in the past, the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge ("The Gloomy Dean"), former Dean of St. Paul's, made an unpopular point. Said he of the Continent's bomb-shattered cathedrals: "What a plane does, striking blind in a few seconds, will be remembered against us for all time."
Blood and Crowd Collector
Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, maestro of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, familiarized himself with the instruments of a Red Cross mobile blood-collecting unit. Touring Minnesota with the unit between concerts, he sometimes doffed the rubber gloves of an orderly to draw crowds with his piano playing—both long-hair and boogie-woogie.
Minnesota Marksman
Tall, blond Lieut. Commander Harold Edward Stassen, peacetime Governor of Minnesota, picked up a standard .22 target pistol at the Fort Schuyler, N.Y. Naval Training School, made 99 points out of 100. Startled onlookers learned later that he once captained the University of Minnesota's rifle team.
Among Warriors
Svelte, charming Correspondent Eve Curie (Journey Among Warriors) was sworn in as a 30¢-a-day private in the Corps des Volontaires Françaises (Fighting French WACs). She waited in Manhattan for transportation to her three-month basic training in England.
To Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Major General Terry de la M. Allen of the famed First Division (TIME, May 10) went the Croix de Guerre for their Tunisian exploits. The decorator: General Louis Koeltz, commanding General of the XIX French Army Corps.
Outstroked in the quarter finals of the Western Open Tournament, tiny Betty Hicks, 1941 Women's National Amateur golf champion, applied for U.S. service with the SPARS.
Gentleman of an Old School
That 87-year-old Baron Grantley, oldest member of the House of Lords, had committed adultery was not easy for divorce court Justice Gonne Pilcher to believe. But a Piccadilly plaintiff got his divorce and damages, after his full-fashioned wife Pauline admitted in court it was all true. The Baron is a descendant of Georgian dramatist Richard Brinsley (The School for Scandal) Sheridan.
Museum Piece
Into North Tarrytown, N.Y. at the tiller of his 1902 Anderson electric, rolled John D. Rockefeller Jr., to dedicate 17th-Century Phillipse Manor House as a colonial memorial (he gave $300,000 for its reconstruction). Next to him sat Mrs. Rockefeller; following in a buckboard were Daughter-in-law Mrs. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and three of her five. The procession wound up with matched Percherons drawing three wagonloads of Pocantico Hills residents. Said Restorer Rockefeller: "To me this has . . . been ... a labor of love ... in the interest of my neighbors and friends in the Tarrytowns, among whom I have lived so happily ... for nearly 50 years."
Down Beat
Swart, handsome, curly-haired Gene Krupa, drumming idol of swarms of jitterbugs, paled as a San Francisco jury found him guilty of using a minor (his 20-year-old valet) to transport marijuana cigarets. He had claimed that he was handed an envelope by a stranger, did not know what was in it. As his lawyer prepared to appeal, Krupa prepared to face the music, one to six years in San Quentin.
Indisposed