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Although he is suffering from bursitis, malaria, nervous exhaustion, kidney and heart complications and perhaps stomach ulcers, Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, 62, was not too sick to take all his authority with him when he flew to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital for medical treatment. Vice President Fernando Lopez, now one of Quirino's political enemies, will only preside over social functions and handle the occasional ceremonies that call for a Vice President. Anything else, said the ailing Quirino, candidate for reelection, will be handled by the President by transpacific telephone.
London papers carried an appeal from Jockey Gordon Richards to a thief, name unknown. Preoccupied with his fast-approaching accolade of knighthood, Sir Gordon requested only that the thief be a "sportsman" and return a gold cigarette case, a gift from the late King George V. As one sportsman to another, Richards was willing to write off the rest of the loot: a pair of gold spurs, a gold compact and pencil, a box of cigars, half a bottle of whisky and an unspecified amount of money.
Homeward bound for his new post as U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert B. Carney, commander of NATO forces in southern Europe, made a last inspection of the 8th Regiment of Italy's famed Bersaglieri. Remembering the strict uniform regulations of official Washington, Admiral Carney tried on, just for size, one of the flashy, droop-feathered hats of the crack sharpshooters.
Ellen Chambers, 19-year-old daughter of Whittaker (Witness) Chambers, took out a license with Army Private Henry A. Into for their marriage this week in Westminster, Md. Inducted last January, Into will have to finish his hitch before returning to Yale as a junior. Meanwhile, Ellen will go back to Smith College, where she is a junior majoring in horticulture.