In honor of genial, grizzled Viennese Fritz Kreisler, The Bohemians, some 1,000 classical musicians, sat down to dinner at Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, put on a glittering musical evening, topped it off by confronting Fiddler Kreisler with Fiddler Albert Spalding decked out in mustache and grey bangs, looking wonderfully like the guest of the evening, and sawing at one of his tunes with confusingly Kreislerian dexterity.

Ruth Henderson, 23, and Roberta Morton, 26, found that there were no more tickets for the Nebraska-Stanford Rose Bowl game to be had in Omaha. So they wired an appeal to Stanford's most famed alumnus, who lives olympically on Stanford's campus and who has helped a lot of people in one struggle or another. Back came word that Herbert Hoover would see that they got tickets.

Afternoon before Christmas, White House Secretary Steve Early held a special press conference to read two letters received by Folia, the President's night-colored Scotty. Wrote Noodle Van Loon of Greenwich, Conn, (enclosing a gift): "I do hope you like these cookies as much as I do." Wrote Rip Patterson of Pittsburgh (who signed himself "the Presidential mascot's cocker spaniel friend") : "A magazine* refers to you as a 'silent and undemanding companion.' Don't ever change. Your master must have few enough who fall into that category." Except for two-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt III, generally known as Joe, only youngster at the White House Christmas was pert, black-eyed Diana Hopkins, 8, daughter of Presidential Friend Harry L. Hopkins. Besides helping Mrs. Roosevelt by arranging the White House creche, Diana rollicked off to the executive offices, had her picture snapped with her dad and the Hopkins family's 1940 Christmas slogan.

Craning his neck to get a ringside view from the fighters' aisle at a Mexico City bullfight, inquisitive Biographer Emil Ludwig got the shock of his life when an angry bull lunged out of the ring, pursued him hotly down the passageway.

Unemployed since his graduation from University of Virginia Law School last June, 26-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. will begin the new year by going to work as a $2,100-a-year law clerk in the Wall Street firm of Wright, Gordon, Zachry & Parlin. His responsibilities: "What they'd give to any young fellow fresh out of law school."

When crater-mouthed Comic Joe E. Brown took a wife 25 years ago, they were married in Manhattan's Municipal Building and rode home on the subway. "Some day," promised Joe, "we'll have a real wedding, in a church, with organ music and flowers and all the rest." Last week Joe and wife observed their silver anniversary and acquired a barrel of publicity by getting remarried in Hollywood's St. Thomas Church, with their four children as attendants. Afterwards they took a commemorative ride on a bus.

Presidential Adviser Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran used to work until 4 a.m., used to travel far & wide on the moment's spur. Grounded in Washington while his pretty wife Peggy was momentarily expecting their firstborn, he mourned: "This domesticity ruins the irregularity of my life."

C. I. O. workers in Newark, at outs with a British-owned dog-food firm, wrote to George VI, asking him to help settle their strike.

-- LIFE, Dec. 16.

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