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A sculptured Franklin D. Roosevelt likeness that provoked no public squabbles was unveiled at Hyde Park on his birthday. Eleanor Roosevelt accepted it (a granite bust) from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Britons had just heard from her for the first time on the standing-v.-sitting issue raised by London's own memorial project (TIME, Nov. 25). Personally, she liked the project the way it stood (standing). But "the question as to whether he should stand or sit," she wrote, "is one for you to decide. . . . I realize that whatever you do will not please everybody. . . ."
Old Faces
Magda Fontanges, who won notoriety in 1937 by shooting France's ex-Ambassador to Italy in the hind leg, got a 15-year prison sentence in Bordeaux for collaborating with the Gestapo. Once-beautiful Magda, onetime girl friend of the political high-&-mighty (who claimed she shot old Count Charles de Chambrun for busting up a little affair with Benito Mussolini), was sentenced for hiring out as a spy at $42.50 a month (plus expenses).
Sir Malcolm Campbell, 61, who set the world water-speed record (141.74 m.p.h.) in his Bluebird II seven years ago, pleaded guilty to a speeding charge in a London traffic court, got fined ten shillings ($2). His land speed: 38 m.p.h.
A will written on two sides of a piece of paper by Harvester Heir Stanley R. McCormick, son of Inventor Cyrus, was probated in Chicago (he died Jan. 19 at 72). The will had been signed in 1904, a few days after Stanley married Katherine Dexter, a few years before he was officially declared mentally incompetent. It now left her everything: $20-odd million worth.