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Sadakichi Hartmann, onetime "King of Greenwich Village," announced from his desert-edge shack in California that he was writing "what likely will be my last opus." Son of a German father and Japanese mother, hard-playing Eccentric Hartmann was once a crony of Walt Whitman, spent most of his life writing art brochures and unplayable plays. Now 72, he described his final opus: "Theme: 1,000 happy moments in a lifetime—where can they be found—four New World Orders analyzed—which one is your choice?"
Sick Bay
Darryl Zanuck dashed into a polo scrimmage on a Hollywood field, broke his nose when it caught the ball.
Lawrence Tibbett had his appendix out in an emergency operation in Manhattan. His condition: good.
Buddy Baer, who fights Joe Louis Jan. 9, had his face cut in an auto collision in Eatontown, N.J.
Coattail Coasters
Ann Sheridan announced she had chosen George Brent as the man with whom she would like best to be caught in a blackout.
Jimmy Durante got himself made "honorary brigadier general" and honorary head of kitchen police, at Camp Langdon, N.H.
Jane Wyman, self-acclaimed kissing champion of Hollywood and honorary top sergeant, pondered Britain's code-wary ban on Xs in love letters, dreamed up a substitute: lipstick impressions. "I wish every girl who writes to a soldier would send them," she confessed to the newspapers.