As Wendell Willkie took a job with a law firm (see p. 77), Oren Root Jr., 29, organizer of last year's Willkie Clubs, left a seven-week-old job as junior member of the Wall Street law firm of Hatch, McLean & Root, reported for duty as aide to the Navy Purchasing Officer in Manhattan.

With a fine crop of Washington socialites sitting under her domineering auctioneering spell, fat, party-witted Elsa Maxwell raised $10 for the R.A.F. by knocking down an alleged tuft of George III's beard.

Bald, sharp-witted Film Producer Kenneth Macgowan (In Old Chicago, Tin Pan Alley), who took a defense job in Washington last month, learned with dismay that his new title was: Director of Production in the Motion Picture Division of the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American Republics under the Council of National Defense.

To mark the second anniversary of his birth, which occurred three days before Mussolini drove his parents, Albania's Zog and Geraldine, into exile, Crown Prince Skander, a curly-headed refugee who has visited as many capitals as an Axis foreign minister, climbed on a chair at London's Dorchester House, sat for his picture (see cut) like a good fellow.

Tough, tattooed Ford Personnel Boss Harry Bennett played saxophone in a Navy band in 1919 and has held a card for more than 15 years in A.F. of L. Musicians' Local No. 5 in Detroit. Last week, few days after he signed a historic armistice in Ford's fight with C.I.O. United Automobile Workers (TIME, April 21), Serviceman Bennett was visited by officers of the local, presented with a gold engraved card of life membership for his "untiring efforts in aiding scores of unemployed musicians by placing them on various jobs throughout the plant."

In England, while they waited for word of their fugitive brother, Yugoslavia's King Peter II, two active young Kara-Georgevitches, Prince Andreja, 11, and Prince Tomislav, 13, played in a treetop in an observation post of their own construction, watching the sky for German planes.

After listening for almost two months to such cinematic witnesses as Will Hays, Charles Chaplin, Harpo and Chico Marx, a Manhattan jury in Federal Court found massive, 58-year-old Joseph M. Schenck, chairman of 20th Century-Fox, guilty on two counts of evading Federal income taxes amounting to more than $250,000 for the years 1935 and 1936. Possible sentence: ten years, $20,000 fines.

Recalled from his wedding trip after only three days, Marine Corps Captain Jimmy Roosevelt hove wanly to, with his bride in tow, in San Francisco. "It's pretty tough to have to break up a honeymoon like this," declared Jimmy, "but duty is duty." Duty: to Clipper at once to the Orient, leaving his bride behind.

To serve as Senator Morris Sheppard's successor until a new Senator can be elected, Texas' Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel appointed crusty, crotchety Andrew Jackson Houston, 87, only living son of Texas' founder-hero, Sam Houston.

Vacationing among the onions and Percherons on his 1,000-acre farm in Ontario, loud Premier Mitchell Frederick ("Mitch") Hepburn barged ebulliently into a St. Thomas filling station and, finding no operator, went to work on the gas pump himself. "Hey, you can't do that," yelled the attendant, appearing at last. "It's against the law!" "The law is an ass--I'll have it changed," grinned Farmer Mitch.

Cruising down the Potomac on a hot Sunday afternoon, the onetime Coast Guard cutter Milan turned suddenly off course when five tide-spun swimmers were spotted struggling in the water 1 ,000 yards away. As the cutter drew up, lines were thrown overboard. Then the strong arms of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Assistant Secretary Ralph Bard and Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan helped pull the swimmers to safety.

To Stockholm went Finland's hardy old Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim to receive from the Swedish Geographic Society the Sven Hedin Medal for map work accomplished during his 8,750-mile horseback expedition across Asia 35 years ago.

When cameramen stalked J. P. Morgan at an English-Speaking Union rally at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Banker Morgan, who loves England even more than he hates having his picture taken, barked jovially: "If you must photograph me, be sure it is with a charming lady." Photophobe Morgan then posed happily with Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt.

When courtly, magniloquent old Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst (Arizona's "Silver-Tongued Sunbeam") bowed out after his defeat last fall, he assured his colleagues that while they struggled on he would be "enjoying the ecstasy of the starry stillness of an Arizona desert night or the scarlet beauty of her blossoming cactus." Last week the genial self-styled Dean of Inconsistency became a member of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Headquarters: Washington, D.C,

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