When 60-year-old Tap Dancer Bill Robinson's new sedan was almost hit by 21-year-old Footballer Paul Moffat's car in Hollywood, there was an angry altercation, then blows. Tap Dancer Robinson clipped Footballer Moffat over the head with a revolver. Moffat went to the hospital with four gashes in his scalp. Robinson went to jail, was freed an hour later.

Convict Richard Whitney, Groton and Harvard graduate who has been teaching visual education* at Sing Sing, asked for a different job because he was vexed by the backwardness of his pupils, most of whom never finished grade school.

Mrs. Fitch Gilbertt/- announced that she has offered a stake of $2,000 for three-gaited horses at the forthcoming National Horse Show to be held in Manhattan in November. Stipulation: the horses cannot have set tails, a fashion which requires cutting the flexor muscles of a horse's tail, holding it in an iron "bustle" (except while in the ring or on the bridle path). Because her donation is $1,000 larger than any other Horse Show prize, Mrs. Gilbert hoped to lure horse-showers away from a cruel fashion.

From Lausanne, Switzerland, 77-year-old Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski made his first broadcast to the U. S.

When Actor Frank Craven took a holiday from his leading role of commentator in Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Thornton Wilder stepped into the part. Said Author-Actor Wilder of his Broadway debut: "I stuttered a little over my lines, clipped some of the words, tripped now & then." Said the critics: "He read his lines extremely well."

Into the 1938-39 edition of Who's Who in America went Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (stooge for Charlie McCarthy). Other newcomers: Fred Astaire, Margaret Mitchell, James Roosevelt, John Donald Budge.

While sentencing a forger in Klamath Falls, Ore., Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst (brother of Arizona's polysyllabic Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst) digressed to criticize a bill for overtime submitted by Court Clerk Walter Hannon, called it disgraceful, intimated that it was not legal. Hopping mad, Clerk Hannon waylaid the judge on the courthouse steps a few hours later, beat the daylights out of him. Battered and bruised, Judge Ashurst summoned the Grand Jury into immediate session.

In Paris, the authoritative Beaux-Arts magazine noted Queen Elizabeth's recent purchase of a painting by Wilson Steer and a portrait of George Bernard Shaw by Augustus John. Added the Beaux-Arts: this was the first occasion since before the reign of Charles I (1625-49) that the British Royal Family has acquired a picture solely for its artistic merits.

In the Manhattan gallery of Dali-sponsor Julien Levy, an exhibition of "surrealistic" paintings by Grade Allen, adept professional dope, included nitwit daubs entitled: Man with Mike Fright Moons over Manicurist, Dogs Gather on Street Corner to Watch Man-Fight, Gravity Gets Body Scissors on Virtue as Night Falls Upside Down.

On his 60th birthday, Upton Sinclair published his 60th book (Little Steel), wryly declared: "If I were asked to name the one definite thing I have accomplished in my public career I believe it would be that I got an exercise courtyard in the State prison* of Delaware."

Douglas Gorce Corrigan signed a contract with RKO Radio Pictures to play himself in his own life story. For the story he will get $25,000, for appearing in it, $75,000.

On his 45th birthday Marshall Field III, Manhattan socialite, inherited about $100,000,000 in accrued income from the estate of his Chicago department-store tycoon grandfather. Already a millionaire many times over, under the terms of the first Marshall Field's will he will get the residue (approximately $500,000,000) when he is 50.

* Teaching by means of pictures.

/-Mother of Polo Players A. C., Dunbar and George H. ("Pete") Bostwick.

* Where he was jailed for 18 hours in 1911 for violating a Sunday blue law against "gaming" (he was playing tennis).

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