Roused by the German-Italian-Japanese accord, Jeff Davis, "King of the Hobos," told fellow bindle stiffs in Philadelphia to get off the road and into the Army. "This is no time to be gazing at the scenery."

When a German incendiary bomb marked J. P. K. burned itself harmlessly out beside his Windsor house, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joseph Patrick Kennedy said: "Initials don't count."

Last month H. H. Lady Sylvia, the 56-year-old white Ranee of Sarawak, arriving in Canada, appalled her native Britain by denouncing its child evacuees as "young riffraff of England." Last week she appeared at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, gave a pint of her blue blood to Britain, did not stipulate any particular donee.

Onetime editor-owner of The Nation, lifetime liberal, Oswald Garrison Villard appeared before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee to argue that third terms are a bad thing and all Presidents are greedy for them. His prime example: "Despite President Coolidge's 'I do not choose to run,' he threw himself on his bed in an agony of disappointment and was unapproachable for two days after the news reached him that Mr. Hoover had been nominated."

To his Connecticut audiences Poet-Professor Odell Shepard, Pulitzer-Prize biographer (Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott) who quit lecturing at Trinity College to campaign for Lieutenant Governor, sang a political ditty called Old Connecticut Is Coming, F. D. R. He called it an orphan, but it looked like his child. Cracked his Republican opponent, tall, suave Dr. James Lukens McConaughy, who is not only Lieutenant Governor but president of Wesleyan too: "If the State wants a Lieutenant Governor who can serve as its poet laureate, count me out."

In Manhattan's Supreme Court appeared one Helen Butler Jacobs to sue the estate of Joe ("Yussel the Muscle") Jacobs, late fight manager, for $1,000 and a third of his share of the Max Baer-Tony Galento fight, claiming she was his wife. Said William J. McCarney, Jacobs' former business partner: "He had half a dozen girls. . . . When he introduced another woman to me as his 'little wife' I asked him if he was married. 'Do you think I'm crazy?' he answered.''

In Manhattan's Surrogate's Court appeared a Mrs. Estelle Lynn Werner to sue the estate of Daniel J. Leary, late lumber baron, father of international bachelor-girl Cosmopolite Beth Leary, for $1,750,000 in securities which she claimed was given her in token of "our beautiful friendship." Commented Leary's executors, replying to her suit: "Baseless . . . utter fraud typical of the immoral . . . relationship out of which it has grown."

To stop "important gaps" in his education (Choate, Yale, Cambridge), and after many a false start in publishing, chain restaurants and banking, earnest, book-&-horse-loving Paul Mellon, 33-year-old only son of the late Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, entered famed St. John's College at Annapolis, Md., a freshman. Weekending with wife and daughter on his nearby 400-acre farm in foxy Fauquier County, Va., Freshman Mellon on weekdays will begin to mull the 100 classics which St. John's considers all that is necessary for a college education.

Dictator Francisco Franco celebrated the fourth anniversary of his designation as Chief of Nationalist Spain by releasing thousands of prisoners.

Arriving with his wife and three daughters at Portland, Ore. after three months in Chungking, slight, pipe-smoking Chinese Philosopher-Author Lin Yutang (The Importance of Living) told the world: "We will fight the Japs any time, any place. Japan can never defeat China--never."

Wealthy, 68-year-old Edward Avery McIlhenny, naturalist and explorer who in 1898 rescued shipwrecked Jack London in Alaskan waters, was indicted in Louisiana by a Federal grand jury. The charge: he and ex-Governor Richard W. Leche used the mails in a scheme to defraud the State on the landscaping of Louisiana State University.

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