Hippopotamoid Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring ordered all German soldiers in uniform to refrain from the Lambeth Walk, because it presents a 'disgraceful picture," forbade his airforce bands even to play the tune.

Jan Garrigue Masaryk, son of Czechoslovakia's founder and its former Minister to Great Britain, now one of the many men without a country, bitterly told University of California students: "They operated on us at Munich and without an anesthetic. Then that man comes into the hospital and rapes us. To make a complete job of it, he then extracts the gold from our teeth."

Said Eleanor Roosevelt, who has probably caught more trains and planes than any other U. S. woman: "Nothing on God's green earth would induce me to run for the Presidency."

While her papa, Egypt's King Farouk, attended the exhumation of one of his royal predecessors, Princess Ferial (age four months) faced the world in her first picture. Egypt's adoring fellaheen fondly assured one another that the picture bore a strong resemblance to their late princess, Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.).

Grim, grey-haired Dr. Bessie R. Burchett, a high-school Latin teacher in Philadelphia, mortally fears Jews, radicals, labor leaders. To defend herself, she used to carry two guns, a six-shooter in her handbag, an automatic strapped to her leg under her skirt. Once she brandished a pistol in a newsman's face, declared: "Those Communists will never take me alive." Disarmed by the Board of Education, she hired two bodyguards, scattered scarehead pamphlets by the thousands, tried to break up meetings of "Reds," invited teachers to join an "American National Socialist Party." Last week her pupils at West Philadelphia High decided Miss Burchett had gone too far, walked out of her classes. Shooed by policemen, the students went back. But next day, deluged with calls from angry parents, the Board of Education began an investigation of Two-Gun Bessie Burchett.

Two years ago Esmond Marcus David

Romilly, Winston Churchill's 18-year-old nephew, scandalized his Tory family by packing off to Spain to fight for the Loyalists. The Hon. Jessica Lucy ("Decca") Freeman-Mitford, 19, second-youngest of the six beauteous daughters* of Baron Redesdale, scandalized her equally Tory family by joining Esmond. Fuming, Baron Redesdale made Decca a ward in chancery, thus making it illegal for any Englishman to marry her without the High Court's consent. Decca and Esmond cocked a long-distance snook, cried: "We both regard marriage mainly as a convenience. . . ." (Few months later they compromised with convention by getting married in a civil ceremony.) Last fortnight they arrived in Manhattan on their first visit to the U. S. Said Esmond Romilly last week: "We came here to get away from a terrible, deathlike atmosphere of depression and hopelessness. England is one of the saddest places in the world."

Robert E. Whelan (pronounced "Whalen"), 22, research worker in the New York World's Fair press department, was at liberty last week. Reason: incoming telephone calls to him were sometimes given to Grover A. Whalen. Clerk Whelan was asked to change his name, refused, was fired.

* Others: Diana, the Hon. Lady Mosley, wife of Britain's Blackshirt; the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, Adolf Hitler's "ideal Nordic type."

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