While his father Wendell Willkie invited his soul in Colorado, (see p. 12), Son Philip Herman Willkie announced that he would study history next winter at Harvard, would return to Princeton next June for another go at the history exams he failed last month.

In Manhattan, balding, moon-faced Exile Carl Joachim Hambro, for 15 years president of the Storting (Norwegian parliament), explained Norway's vulnerability to the Nazi attack: "Perhaps we loved butter better than guns."

In Manhattan, Ferryboat Captain John J. McCabe, 64, celebrated his 250,000th crossing of the Hudson River, received a plaque in honor of 34 years of service without an accident.

In a demonstration of national solidarity at Chengtu, China, three famed Soong sisters marched side by side through the streets in peasant hats while Chengtu stared in admiration: Mmes. H. H. Kung, wife of China's Finance Minister, Chiang Kaishek, wife of the Generalissimo, Sun Yatsen, widow of the founder of the Chinese republic.

Edna Wallace Hopper, 76, self-styled "feminine fountain of youth," had her face lifted for the third time.

Nearly completed was Nobel Prize-winning Author Pearl Buck's "Book of Hope"--a collection of 1,000 signatures, each representing a donation of $100 or more to the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. Both book and money will be sent to Mme. Chiang Kaishek.

Patrick Joseph Dollan, Lord Provost of Glasgow, told Glasgow schoolboys that he had been a pacifist during World War I, was now a "repentant sinner": "I am beginning to wonder why it was that a good many of us in years gone by scorned the idea of training the young to defend their country. . . ."

Detailed to pick up Fugitive Elmer Childers, Indiana State Policeman Donald Ray Lash, ex-Olympic distance runner, holder of the indoor world's record for the two-mile run, spotted his man making off across a field. Unbuckling his heavy gun belt, Lash took after his quarry, ran him down in a fast mile.

Renouncing her foreign title, Princess Natalie Paley, daughter of the late Grand Duke Paul of Russia, ex-wife of Parisian Couturier Lucien Lelong, wife of Noel Coward's business manager, John Chapman Wilson, took out first papers for U. S. citizenship. White-haired, U. S.-born Lady Ribblesdale, 70, ex-wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor, mother of Vincent Astor, grande dame of international society, renounced her title, once more became a citizen of her native U. S.

Having taken three inches off his tremendous waistline in the last three months, British Cinema Director Alfred Hitchcock, now down to a mere 250 pounds (from 292), explained how he did it: not just by eating one normal meal a day instead of three huge ones, but by the mental anguish caused by the constant thought of the food he was missing.

Among hundreds of European refugees who poured into the U. S. last week were: the Countess of Carnarvon, Vienna-born Dancer Tilly Losch; lean, stoop-shouldered Baron Edouard de Rothschild, retired head of the Paris branch of the international banking house (who declared over $1,000,000 in jewels to customs authorities), his wife and daughter; French Playwright Henri Bernstein; mystic Belgian Dramatist Count Maurice Maeterlinck, 77, his long white locks protected from the sea wind by a Goeringesque hair net, his pretty, redheaded actress wife Renee, 45. Maeterlinck, who said he had nothing left but royalties from his play The Blue Bird, mourned: "I had my money in a bank in Brussels. The Germans occupied Belgium. I had my house and belongings in Nice. The Germans have occupied France. All is gone. . . . I am stunned and yet I am surprised at the ease with which I accept all this. . . ."

In Hollywood for a wrestling match, Maurice ("The Angel") Tillet, fearsome-faced French wrestler, let himself be photographed strolling down Vine Street with Starlet Suzanne Ridgway.

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