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Burned: a wing of the Archibald Roosevelts' home on Long Island. Smoke woke the 52-year-old Colonel—only surviving son of "Teddy"—at 5:30 a.m. Estimated damage: $15,000.
Burglarized: the Manhattan home of the Scripps-Howard papers' natty chief Roy W. Howard. Gone: two diamond bracelets, two diamond rings, some antique earrings—all the property of Howard's sister-in-law, who had left them with the Howards for safekeeping.
After Due Reflection
Dr. Charles Malik, Lebanese delegate to U.N., offered a little suggestion to his fellow statesmen: do not forget "the individual human person." Mused Philosopher Malik: "Who is this person? This person ... is the living, dying man, who suffers and rebels, is scared, makes mistakes . . . hesitates . . . gossips . . . even blushes and laughs. . . . This being ... is in danger of being drowned and obscured by ... systems. . . . We need champions of the mind and spirit. . . ."
Dr. Fréderic Joliot-Curie, France's High Commissioner of Atomic Energy, claimed that making atomic bombs was as easy as rolling off a neutron. His recipe, in United Nations World magazine: "Imagine a sphere of Uranium 235 large enough to be susceptible to explosive chain reaction. Now divide it into two hemispheres each below the 'critical mass.' Place these ... at the two ends of a cylindrical tube. One hemisphere is fixed, the other mobile, so that an explosive charge . . . can cause it to slide swiftly into contact with the other. . . . When the two hemispheres come together, the conditions for explosive chain reactions are fulfilled. . . ."
Straight from the Heart
Tyrone Power, just home from a few pleasant months in Mexico City, helped wife Annabella pack her bags. "Any discussion of a reconciliation with my husband," recited Annabella precisely to the press, "must wait until my return in the fall." Then she was off to Paris.
Rita Hayworth, through work at last in a picture written, produced and directed by husband Orson Welles (co-star), said she was also through with Orson. Explained Rita: "I just can't take his genius any more."
Actress Laraine Day cleared up a little something that had puzzled people who have never been attracted to the Brooklyn Dodgers' Leo ("Lippy") Durocher. "What do I see in Leo?" echoed the Mormon-bred actress rhetorically. "I see a great charm—a great magnetism, and he doesn't drink or smoke, either. . . ."
Return Engagements
Burning-eyed Conductor Otto Klemperer, 61, who left Germany when Hitler was taking over, reappeared in Los Angeles. Seven years ago he had been operated on for a brain tumor. He had not had a steady job since 1941. Last spring he made a brilliant musical comeback in Rome, Milan, Paris. Last week he was found lying on a street corner just before dawn, his head cut and bruised. Two strangers in a nightclub had offered to drive him to another spot to hear some real jazz, said Dr. Klemperer, and on the way, they suddenly robbed him of $30, threw him out of the car.