The Younger Generation
In Dubois, Wyo., Navy Secretary James Forrestal's 16-year-old son, Peter, was tossed off his horse, taken to a hospital, treated for chest and shoulder bruises, released.
In Elmsford, N. Y., Elliott Roosevelt, 36, who was fined $15 last summer for speeding at 65, was fined $50 as a second offender, for making 60.
In Kew Gardens, Long Island, Wellington Koo Jr., 26, who had already been charged with speeding four times (two fines, two dismissals), was charged again, won a dismissal on the ground of diplomatic immunity. But the judge decided to write a little letter to Koo's father, the Chinese Ambassador.
In Manhattan, Hamid Reza Pahlevi, 15-year-old brother of the Shah of Persia, disappeared from his hotel room shortly before he was to be taken off to summer school. Next day the Prince, who had already run away from one school in Beirut, another in Switzerland, alighted at Orly Airfield near Paris. Where next? The Persian Minister in Paris, who had promptly taken the Prince in hand, told the press: "It depends on his brother," and briskly pulled down the diplomatic curtain.
Just Deserts
Edouard Herriot, president of the French National Assembly, onetime Premier, off-&-on littérateur, was the latest immortal to be admitted to the French Academy.
Eddie Cantor finally made the grade, though he was bringing up the rear. Coming: another biographical cinema saga—this one about the life of Eddie Cantor.
Ludwig van Beethoven was doing even better than Cantor. Two Hollywood studios were in a race to film his life story.
Jimmy Stewart got a "meritorious service" citation from the General Federation of Women's Clubs, convening in Manhattan. When outgoing President Mrs. La Fell Dickinson fluffed her lines during the presentation, Actor Stewart, who looks as comforting as every mother's son should look, played his familiar role to the hilt (see cut).
The Heart of the Matter
"If men have made a mess of the world," observed Novelist Pearl Buck, "what a mess women have made of men. Women do nothing because they know nothing and care nothing. . . . The time has come to enlarge the home and include the world."
"There are two things hanging over the country today," declared General Motors President Charles E. Wilson. One is a long coal strike; the other, "propaganda in high places that prices are too high and profits excessive." How to stop the "propaganda"? The Wilson recipe: "Have faith. The truth will prevail."
"You can have the Yankees," announced Tallulah Bankhead, actress and ball fan. "For years they've been cold and colorless perfectionists, and they bore the bloomers off me." Miss Bankhead's heart belongs to the Giants (who last won a pennant in 1937). "When they win I want to do cartwheels on top of their dugout," said she, "and don't think I can't. When they lose, my vichyssoise is curdled, to say nothing of my gizzard. Last season I lived on curdled vichyssoise."
The Old Gang
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, No. 1 polar explorer of the past two decades, prepared at 58 to retire from the Navy. He had a new job awaiting him as a director of a South Carolina cotton textile firm.