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"It seems to be a law of nature," sighed Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, "that everyone you grow to love must cause you some anxiety, and little dogs are no exception to the rule!" What prompted this: Fala's grandson, Tamas, had disappeared, was missing for several hours. Tamas' mistress, who would go to London this week to unveil a statue of the late President, went on a shopping expedition in Manhattan, chose a full-skirted black Chantilly lace number (see cut) for court functions.
Jim Farley, in Atlantic City, N.J. for a convention, lost a watch given to him by a fraternal order. The machinery of the law hummed, in jig time uncovered the watch in Farley's bed.
Eleanor Clay Ford, Automaker Edsel's widow, made her fourth annual probate court report on her late husband's estate. Distributed thus far among the principal beneficiaries (her four children, herself, and the Ford Foundation): $131,548,434. Paid out in estate taxes: $31,635,093.
Aviation Pioneer Orville Wright's estate added up to $1,067,105, mostly in stocks & bonds. Among them: a block of railroad (Santa Fe) securities, no aviation issues whatsoever. '
Penalties
Beulah Louise Overell, solidly built heiress acquitted last October of the bludgeon-&-blast murder of her parents, paid a $100 fine for hit-&-run driving in Los Angeles.
Ann Cooper Hewitt Nicholson, the heiress who made headlines a decade ago by charging that her mother had had her sterilized, was convicted of perjury with fourth husband Frank ("Rodeo Roy")
Nicholson in San Rafael, Calif. They faced a possible 1-to-14 years in the pen for falsely testifying at their trial last December for conspiring to evade California's premarital blood-test law.
Mark Hanna III, convivial great-grandson of the '90s' famed political boss and "President-Maker," was arrested in New Orleans for passing $60,000 worth of bum checks.
Posies
The Women's National Press Club announced its annual "achievement awards" to women, who would gather in Washington next week to take their formal bows. To 55-year-old British Novelist Rebecca West (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, The Meaning of Treason) went the nod as woman-journalist-of-the-year, for her reporting job on the Nürnberg trials. Ingrid Bergman, 30, was picked as No.1 actress; and 32-year-old Novelist Jean Stafford*(The Mountain Lion) was tapped for literary honors.
Flushed with the success of her recent column on cleanliness (TIME, March 8), Columnist Elsa Maxwell named the five best-scrubbed males she knew. No.1: Actor Canada Lee ("Every time I've seen him . . . he's immaculate. This I consider a tour de force"). The others: ex-Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joe Kennedy; ex-Ambassador to Italy Henry Fletcher; Maurice Chevalier ("liberally scrubbed in sunshine"); and Bernard Baruch ("difficult for an older man").
Douglas MacArthur, declared Cinemactress Marion Davies in the Hearst-papers, is "the greatest man since George Washington."
*Whose husband, Robert Lowell, got last year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry.