Ups & Downs

Winston Churchill, midwintering in French Morocco, went to bed with a cold.

Pope Pius XII was up & around after a spell of bronchitis.

General Evangeline Booth, the Salvation Army's retired international commander, finally recovering from a long siege of flu, had four friends in to dinner on her 82nd birthday.

Crown Prince Alcihito of Japan was 14 by western count, 16 by Japanese; the Japanese consider themselves a year old at birth, and--like U.S. thoroughbred horses--add a year every Jan. 1.

Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics since 1901, reached 85, expressed a dreamy birthday wish for "new second and third basemen who could hit hard and run fast."

Comings & Goings

Charles A. Lindbergh turned up in Hong Kong on "Pan American Airlines business," gave it a touch of mystery by asking newsmen not to report anything except the bare fact of his arrival.

Doris Duke Cromwell Rubirosa arrived in Buenos Aires from the U.S. just twelve hours after her fun-loving husband got there from Paris. He said he was going to settle down to being Dominican Ambassador to Argentina.

Left, somewhere along the Champs Elysees, by Nina Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of Sherlock Holmes's creator: a jeweled brooch, shaped like a hand, with rubies on the fingernails and a sprinkling of diamond stars and emeralds. Nina--who used to be Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani--advertised her loss in the papers and let it go at that. "Even Sherlock Holmes would have told the police in such a case," mumbled Paris' police chief. "His daughter-in-law had better consult us if she wants her brooch back." (In 1935 Nina dropped $8,000 worth of jewels on the street, where they were picked up by some little boys. Police returned them to her.)

Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee (Ret.), U.S. Army commander in Italy who was acquitted last October (after noisy accusations in the press) of abusing his authority, took a job as general secretary of the Episcopal Brotherhood of St. Andrew.

Tenor James Melton, refusing to be licked by the Big Snow (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), shoveled a clearing on his Westport (Conn.) farm and helicopter-hopped to work at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House.

At a matinee of Broadway's Happy Birthday, starring Helen Hayes, the snow got too much for a skylight. Suddenly onstage it snowed snow and broken glass (all over Miss Hayes), and that was the end of the matinee.

Cream of the Crop

The annual list of the world's ten best-dressed women (picked by a poll run by the New York Dress Institute) had the same Old Look. The Duchess of Windsor topped it (for the third time). Mrs. Harrison Williams, as usual, was among those present, and so were Mrs. John C. Wilson and Mrs. William Paley (who used to be present as Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr.). Mrs. Howard Hawks, who was in No. 1 position last year, was in No. 8 this time. Actress Ina Claire, on the list for the first time, was already weary of it all. "I decline absolutely," she announced, posing in front of her clothes closet to show a photographer the only new dress she had bought all year. "I won't be bothered living up to this--this honor."

Errol Flynn, a somewhat pouchy 38, tied himself to a 15-year, uncancelable Warner Brothers contract. Terms: one picture a year for an annual $250,000--but he could be required to spend as much as 14 weeks a year at work.

Cinemactress Arline Judge was sued for divorce by her sixth husband, Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping (not to be confused with his brother, Tinplate Heir Dan Topping, her second).

Lana Turner's much-publicized friend, Yaleman John Alden Talbot Jr. (TIME, Dec. 15), staggered Manhattan night clubbers by turning up with brunette, oldtime Cinemactress Polo Negri. (Bob Topping was now "being seen with" Lana.)

Joan Bennett and producer-husband Walter Wanger informed the press that she would be having a baby come June-to join her daughter by her first husband, her daughter by her second, and her daughter by Wanger.

The Hollywood Women's Press Club voted Gary Cooper and Jennifer Jones the Most Uncooperative Actor & Actress of 1947. Gregory ("always available") Peck and Joan ("affable") Fontaine were voted Most Cooperative (four years ago, Miss Fontaine was wearing Miss Jones's label).

Legacies

Left, by Hollywood Director Ernst Lubitsch, to his nine-year-old daughter, Nicola: the bulk of his estate, worth an estimated $1,000,000. To his divorced wife, Nicola's mother: 15% of the estate.

Left, by Writer-Producer Mark Hellinger, to his widow, Gladys Glad, and their two adopted children: the bulk of his estate, estimated at more than $250,000. To his secretary, two friends, and his mother-in-law: $2,000 each.

The Old Gang

Alfred de Marigny, acquitted by a Nassau court in 1943 of the charge of killing his wealthy father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, ran an ad in the Montreal Star, offering for sale: "Entire worldly possessions . . . pending departure for parts unknown."

Dr. Alice Wynekoop, Chicago physician who gained tabloid fame in 1933 by murdering her daughter-in-law on the Wynekoop basement operating table, went free on parole after serving 13 years and nine months of her 25-year term.

Dr. John Lewis, 73-year-old Presbyterian clergyman who last winter burned his 77-year-old Milwaukee church because he wanted a new one, was pardoned by Wisconsin's Governor Rennebohm after twelve weeks of a one-to-five-year sentence.

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