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Attorney General Tom C. Clark—in a week when lynching and vote fraud cases were giving his department no fun at all —got into a Micawberish topper, a striped prison jacket and a dismal pun (see cut), submitted himself to the nonsensical whoop-te-do of being chosen "Fall Guy" by the Circus Saints & Sinners club in Manhattan.
In Washington, Mrs. Robert A. Toft, bustling wife of the busy Senator, briskly hacked away at a roast for photographers, while organized labor hacked away at the Taft-Hartley bill. Occasion: another spell of social eating by members of Bess Truman's Spanish class.
Carl Sandburg, troubadour of the Midwest and No. 1 biographer of Lincoln, was suddenly, at 69, getting the home-town-boy-makes-good treatment from Sweden. Poet Sandburg was born & raised in Illinois, but his folks were Swedish. The Swedish press proposed that he be invited over to play the lion, and maybe get an honorary degree. "Sweden," declared the Dagens Nyheter, "owes Sandburg this homage. . . ."
Laurence Olivier, filming Hamlet, was really giving his talented all to the Bard. He will not only appear as Hamlet but as Hamlet's father's ghost, and for good measure, as the king in the play-within-the-play.
Winston Churchill, the British Control Commission gravely announced after polling some 2,500 citizens, is the Germans' favorite person. Second favorite: Joseph Stalin; Third: Pius XII.
The Thorns
Veteran Bandsman Fred Waring was sued for a separation by his second wife, Evalyn, after 14 years.
Ex-Follies Beauty Boots Mallory, who had been charged with drunken driving, won acquittal by declaring that she had been hysterical not from drinking but just from being scared.
Top-ranking Blues Singer Billie (Strange Fruit) Holliday was really singing the blues. She got a year and a day in a reformatory on a narcotics charge. The judge allowed her hospital treatment, hoped she would eventually tell the FBI where she got the junk.
Canadian Millionaire Duncan McMartin Jr. retorted to wife Pauline's separation suit in Manhattan with a long, fancy answer. Pauline not only led a "life of wanton extravagance," charged McMartin, but went nightclubbing with Doris Duke's ex-husband, James H. R. ("Jimmy") Cromwell, and went even farther with Tallulah Bankhead's ex-leading men, Helmut Dantine and Philip Reed—besides a couple of others.
Quiet Zone
Radio Know-It-All Franklin Pierce Adams' 19-year-old son, Tim, broke a finger on his right hand playing volley ball.
Actress Maureen O'Hara's two-year-old daughter, Bronwyn, stood tiptoe just as Maureen bent down for a kiss. Beautiful mamma stayed home from work next day with a swollen lip.