Happy Days

In Hollywood, while Cafe Sportsman Henry J. ("Bob") Topping waited for wife Arline Judge to get her divorce, Lama Turner was busy buying her $30,000 trousseau. For this, her fourth wedding,* she would wear a princess-style gown in beige lace over champagne satin. The lingerie--some $5,000 worth--would include a dozen nightgowns, half of them fingertip length, in flowered chiffon.

In London, Christopher Robin Milne, 27, storybook hero of father A. A. Milne's famed whimsicalities, announced that this summer he would marry Lesley Selin-court, 22, a librarian.

Figure-Skater Barbara Ann Scott, having announced her willingness to turn pro, was getting black & blue from the money & things people were throwing at her. Total offers received thus far--from Hollywood, radio and advertisers--came to $150,000; she was now sorting them over, thinking. The City of Ottawa planned to give her back the canary-colored Buick it had given her a year ago last March and then taken back when Avery Brundage of the U.S. Olympic Association objected.

Jacob Sechler Coxey, who 54 years ago led "Coxey's Army" of unemployed to Washington (and got arrested for failing to keep off the grass), reached 94 in Massillon, Ohio, announced: "I'm going to live to be a hundred."

In Marlboro, N.Y., the farmhouse of the late Frederic W. Goudy, famed designer of printing types, was put up for auction. Till the day of the sale, Goudy's family had hoped that somebody might offer to make a "shrine" of the place, but nobody had come forward. Then Ralph C. Coxhead, manufacturer of VariTyper machines (widely used by publishers whose typesetters go on strike), got the farm on an $18,000 bid. His plan: to "perpetuate it as a shrine."

To Bruce Rogers, top-shelf book designer, the American Academy of Arts and Letters paid its highest honor--a gold medal the academy had created in 1915 and awarded only six times.*

Take It or Leave It

Hedy Lamarr sued for damages after she pondered the fact that Look magazine had told its readers that she once submitted to rhinoplasty./- She figured that her reputation as a natural-born, unaltered beauty had been damaged about $200,000 worth.

Georgia Sothern, Grand Old Lady of Undress, suffered a routine contretemps when police arrested her after a show in Wilmington. She was fined $125 and costs for lewdness in a tent.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, already memorialized in bronze in London's Grosvenor Square, will also have a place among England's immortals in Westminster Abbey. In the works: a tablet which will bear an inscription being composed jointly by Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee.

In Terre Haute, Ind., William Dudley Pelley, onetime leader of the Silver Shirts, hoped to spring himself out of the pen on a writ of habeas corpus. Six years after his conviction for sedition, Pelley argued that the only thing proved against him was that he was against Communism.

Leggy Lauren Bacall took a look at her part in The Girl from Jones Beach, and said no: "I'm not a bathing beauty; I'd be embarrassed." Warner's promptly suspended her salary.

In Paris, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain's release from his island prison in the Bay of Biscay was the goal of a new committee which included some French Academy immortals. Novelist Franc,ois Mauriac, an official immortal himself, headed an opposition committee which thought that releasing the marshal might cause a certain confusion in the minds of the people.

On the Isle of Capri, Countess Edda Ciano, lusty daughter of the late Benito Mussolini, was getting back into stride after a spell of exile and a year of discreet quiet. She had lost her right to vote, but the fancy villa she occupied was plastered with posters for the neo-Fascist M.S.I, party, and she was doing what she could among her friends.

Left: by the late Jock Sutherland, football coach: some $500,000--three-quarters of it to his 90-year-old mother and two sisters.

Body Blows

Patty Andrews of the three harmonizing Andrews Sisters had eight stitches taken in her lower lip after the top of her convertible fell on it.

Michael Redgrave, Broadway's gleaming-eyed Macbeth, caved in with nervous exhaustion, clung to the scenery while the curtain hustled down. After a ten-minute rest he managed to lay on again.*

Romelle Schneider Roosevelt, Jimmy's second wife and onetime nurse, reached for the wrong pillbox in the night and got an overdose of sleeping tablets, but was "out of danger" a few hours later at the hospital.

* The first was to Artie Shaw; the second and third were to the same man, Stephen Crane.

* To: Charles William Eliot, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, Cecilia Beaux, Edith Wharton, Anna Hyatt Huntington and Ernest Bloch.

/- Plastic surgery of the nose.

* Five days before, he had fetched Macduff a wallop that required four stitches to mend.

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