Royalty

Exiled Queen Wilhelmina, who turned 61, was promised a destroyer as a gift from her scattered subjects. . .Crown Princess Juliana halted a New England trip at Montpelier, Vt., went to bed for a few days' rest. . . Out for a spin with Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn, the Duke of Kent suddenly wrenched the wheel, slithered off the road, just missed a truck that had turned into his path. . .Ex-King Carol and Elena found Mexico City more responsive than Havana. They gave a party at which Heiress Barbara Hutton and Friend Cary Grant turned up.

Athletes

Veteran Tennist Jean Borotra, now Vichy's Sportfuehrer, forbade "Hello, ma, I'm glad I won," and all other remarks into radio microphones by sports winners. His reason: they hurt the dignity of sport. . .Lumbering onetime Fisticuffer Primo Carnera, who tried cinemacting for a while, has taken up wrestling. . . A Pittsburgh judge gave Heavyweight Billy Conn a suspended sentence and a lecture for speeding and driving without a license. . .Corporal Hank Greenberg, ex-Tiger outfielder, was arrested for speeding at Fort Custer, prohibited from driving on the grounds for a month, put on K.P. . . . In Chicago, ex-Halfback Tom Harmon said he was about to propose to Elyse Knox, 23, a cinemactress he had met in Hollywood. Tom's girl used to be Michigan Coed Margot Thorns.

Anatomy

Carrying "Baby X" on a Hollywood set, Marlene Dietrich tripped on a toy fire engine, twisted as she lunged to break the baby's fall, snapped one of the world's two most famous legs at the ankle. . . Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano had his tonsils out. . .Cinemactress Brenda Marshall had an appendectomy week after husband William Holden. . .Publicity Division: Cinemactress Brenda Joyce's teeth were picked by the Southern California Dental Association as the swellest in Hollywood. . . Warner Bros. insured the beard of Monty Woolley (The Man Who Came to Dinner) for $10,000. The insurance company's provisos : Woolley has to wear a fireproof silk beard snood, smoke through a noncombustible cigaret holder, refrain from smoking in bed.

In Manhattan's Stork Club a group of cafe debs elected Betty Cordon, 18, official No. 1 Glamor Girl of the new season. Particulars: her height is 5 ft. 1 1/2 in., weight 100 lb., waist 21 in., hair blonde, eyes grey-green. Her father is a banker (assistant vice president of Manufacturers Trust Co.). She likes chitlin's (pig's intestines). Her comment on the election: "Ridiculous. . . . A glamor girl should be tall, dark, and svelte. . . . I don't know what my parents will think. . . ."

Rooseveltiana

Theodora Roosevelt, granddaughter of the late "Teddy," by his third son, Archibald, made her professional debut as a ballet dancer at Bar Harbor. . .Settled in her first home with globe-girdling James, Romelle Schneider Roosevelt took and passed her driver's test at Bethesda, Md. . . . In the Columbia River waters, where Franklin D. Roosevelt failed to get a nibble in 1934, daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger hooked four Royal Chinook salmon. Young grandson "Buzzie" got one. . .In Toronto at the International Typewriting Marathon, typists who copied the complete works of Shakespeare in 1939, H. G. Wells's The Outline of History in 1940, last week typed The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Thompson

From London to the U.S. went Columnist Dorothy Thompson, followed by a story from British Columnist Hannen Swaffer. The story: At a dinner party talkative Thompson talked everybody limp. Suddenly Lord Beaverbrook interrupted, cried: "Thompson, shut up. . . . If you're not quiet, I'll tell a story about you." He told it anyhow: how he had once found Churchill in the dumps, had played for him a recording of one of Thompson's praiseful speeches about him. At record's end "the sorrow seemed to drop off his shoulders and he looked a young man again. . . . Now Thompson, if you're not quiet, I'll turn on that record now." Murmured Thompson: "I wish you would."

Remember?

Kansas City police hunted L. C. Barrow, one of the Southwest's notorious Barrow brothers (Clyde and Buck were killed by cops). Charge: stealing a dozen cans of caviar. . .Charles Ray, 50, corn-fed juvenile of the silent films, went broke in Hollywood. . .The Safe Deposit and Trust Co. of Baltimore, guardians of eight-year-old Christopher Smith Reynolds, son of Torchsinger Libby Holman and the late, tobacco-wealthy Zachary Smith Reynolds, declared it cost them $6,944.44 a month to maintain the boy. . . Harry K. Thaw, 70, wealthy playboy slayer of Architect Stanford White in 1906, turned up in Saratoga at the races. . . Divorced at last were Lois De Fee (6 ft. 2 in.) and Billy Curtis (4 ft.), married as a publicity stunt in 1938.

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