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Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, flew into New York for a fortnight's U.S. visit, was greeted by i) Francis Cardinal Spellman, 2) newsmen, who goggled at the visitor's British version (bowl-on-a-platter-style) Roman hat. Cardinal Spellman brightly declared that he would buy Cardinal Griffin a new one, U.S. style, later informed the press: "The matter has already been taken care of."
Apparitions
Jinx Falkenburg, cover girl turned actress, and now Mrs. John R. ("Tex") McCrary, expecting "any day in July," swore to do right by her offspring. "If it's a girl I'll call it Capri," said she. "Anyway, I won't use a name like Jinx."
Gypsy Rose Lee, dressed to the chin, prim as a nanny and starchy as a duchess, took the air in Chicago's Lincoln Park with Son Eric nestled in a "cuddleseat," gave her public something new to goggle at (see cut).
Grace Moore was goggleworthy herself in a photo that reached the U.S. from Rome last week (see cut). Occasion for the bubbly blonde soprano's somber wrap-up : an audience with Pope Pius XII. The onetime Baptist choir singer from Jellico, Tenn. had conversion on her mind.
Lola Ruddy, a Manhattan model,* hitched her wagon to a galaxy: since she was part Irish, part English, part French, part Portuguese, and part Swiss, she figured on claiming the title of Miss United Nations.
Rita Hayworth and Lana Turner gathered garlands of Mother's Day publicity: they made somebody's list of the "most glamorous mothers in the U.S."
Ladies' Days
Viscountess Alexander, wife of Canada's new Governor General, struck a blow for imperial clubbiness at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club. Her Ladyship teed off at the 146-yard sixth hole into a stiff wind, dropped a hole-in-one—the first of the club season and the first in her life.
Madame Quo Tai-chi of China, who (like all the U.N. delegates' wives in Manhattan) had been sent a basket of wine (four bottles) by a California vintner, responded with a womanly international gesture. To the pilot who had flown the wine from the Cresta Blanca vineyards she dictated her recipe for Chinese Burgundy: beaten whites two eggs, one pint Burgundy, dash vanilla extract, dash orange bitters; stir in the whites slowly.
Grace Coolidge, relict of the 29th President, kept a dinner engagement at the home of a Northampton, Mass, cobbler. As she presented pins to a class of nurses' aides, she had encountered a girl with an Italian name, promptly inquired whether the girl could cook spaghetti, soon got an invitation from the girl's parents. Mrs. Coolidge appeared at the Sam Borrelli home in good time, departed 4½ hours later. "She ate slowly," reported Cobbler Borrelli, "and she ate a lot."
Helpmeets
Jay Gould III, 26-year-old great-grandson of the great manipulator, was sued for divorce on grounds of cruelty by Wife Jennifer, 21-year-old daughter of Cinemactor Nigel Bruce, after nearly two years of marriage, three months of paternity.
Artie Shaw, bandsman divorced in 1944 by Composer Jerome Kern's daughter, Elizabeth (Shaw's fourth), was ordered by a Los Angeles court to get up $4,000 back alimony—two months' payments.