DIEGO RIVERA & WIFE

Having finished his huge San Francisco Junior College mural--one panel of which shows Cinemactress Paulette Goddard and himself together planting a Tree of Life--shambling Mexican Artist Diego Rivera led his third wife, German-Mexican Frida Kahlo Rivera (from whom he was divorced last year), to the municipal judge's chambers, on his 54th birthday, remarried her.

For the third time, lurching, monolithic Primo Camera, who pushed his way to the world's boxing championship seven years ago, was rejected for service in the Italian Army. Heavyweight Camera tried to enlist as a parachutist, was told no ordinary parachute would float his 292 pounds.

Alexis Leger, French poet (Anabase), for seven years the trusted brain of the French Foreign Office, was discovered in a Manhattan hotel, a refugee. His plans: to make a thorough study of the U. S., write his memoirs. Said he, looking pensively out over the city: "I am avoiding all publicity as well as social or political activities.''

As a result of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, in which Sherman lost 2,500 men, a Union Army surgeon who lost a leg there named his next son Kenesaw Mountain Landis. "Thus," observed Biographer Henry F. Pringle, "was the blunder of General Sherman immortalized." Last week frosty old Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis saw a wish fulfilled. Baseballmen meeting in Atlanta fed him fried chicken, then stuffed him in a car, drove to Marietta, Ga., where the City Council presented him with "a little farm where I can look out and see Kennesaw Mountain."

Reaching Manhattan after a taxing flight from France, oldtime Viennese Composer Oscar Straus met his son and daughter-in-law, who persuaded him to sit down at the piano for the first time in six months, strum a few chords from his operetta The Chocolate Soldier. "In Europe," sighed Composer Straus, "the day of the waltz is for the moment ended."

Speaking at a London luncheon for the R. A. F. American Eagle squadron, impetuous, peripatetic Lady Astor bubbled: "You've no idea how glad people are to be riding in American ambulances." The audience roared, and Nancy blushed. Correcting herself, she said she has seen civilians bombed from their homes accepting lifts in American ambulances.

When Authoress Helen Keller made her annual shopping trip to the Manhattan Christmas sale of articles made by the blind, she received from the hands of Abraham Kreisworth, blind and deaf like herself, a hand-hammered copper tray which he had made especially for her. Miss Keller's purchases showed a partiality for blue, which "represents peace." and yellow, "symbol of sunshine."

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