Publisher George Palmer Putnam, who loves publicity, last week got plenty. He has lately published a fantastic thriller (The Man Who Killed Hitler) which, he reported, brought him numerous anonymous threats. Last week somebody went too far. Found trussed and gagged 100 miles from his North Hollywood home, Mr. Putnam mystified police with a tale of kidnapping by Nazis: "The two men conversed with each other in German. . . . One of them asked who furnished the information for the book. . . . I told them I didn't know."

To the Conservative Women's Conference Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain condescended: "Mrs. Chamberlain is the lady who knows all my secrets but never lets them out, who gently corrects my faults, who never forgets to praise me, who remembers all the things that I forget, and who, for now nearly 30 years, has been my best friend and counselor."

From a minor radioration in favor of peace which he made at Verdun last fortnight, the Duke of Windsor last week drew diverse U. S. responses. From the New York Daily News, which has sniped at him ever since his abdication, an editorial: "As for the ex-King, will the world care much longer what is said or done by that aging Romeo and his aging Juliet?" From Band Leader Ozzie Nelson (by cable) a white dove.

On Mother's Day in Chicago, Mrs. William Feller sat, proudly beaming, in a box, watching her son Bob Feller, 20-year-old star Cleveland pitcher, blast Chicago's White Sox. Pock! A White Sox batsman fouled. The ball took Mother Feller in the eye, opened a six-stitch gash.

To the Charles Eliot Norton poetry professorship (music, art, letters), Harvard appointed high-domed Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, established a Ralph Waldo Emerson poetry fellowship (first incumbent: Robert Frost).

From Germany, where he has been studying artillery tactics, Japan's Prince Motomichi Mori landed in Manhattan on his way home, said he was eager to go to China "and see the fun."

Visitors at the New York World's Fair:* Sean T. O'Kelly, Vice President of the Executive Council of Eire, who prophesied: "I don't think there's a ghost of a chance of Ireland's fighting for anyone if she can get out of it"; Nicaragua's burly President-Dictator Anastasio Somoza; San Francisco's Mayor Angelo J. Rossi; Wooster, Ohio's Mrs. Otelia Compton, 80, whom Mrs. James Rooseveltt decorated as "American Mother of 1939" (her children: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Karl T. Compton; Washington Attorney Wilson M. Compton; University of Chicago Physics Professor Dr. Arthur Compton; Mrs. Herbert Compton Rice, principal of Christian College in Allahabad, India). Grover Aloysius Whalen absented himself long enough to chitchat on Major Bowes's Amateur Hour, received 162 listener-votes as "best amateur," more than 50 of them from California.

At the San Francisco Golden Gate Fair: Mrs. Philip Knight Wrigley in a $5,000 trailer; egg-bald Cinema Comedian Guy Kibbee; Collier's Editor William Ludlow Chenery; one J. J. Jeejeeboy.

* The paint of whose Perisphere, 15 days after the opening, had begun to peel..

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